Both Uses of
essence
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- And through the several torments of the senses the immortal soul is tortured eternally in its very essence amid the leagues upon leagues of glowing fires kindled in the abyss by the offended majesty of the Omnipotent God and fanned into everlasting and ever-increasing fury by the breath of the anger of the God-head.†
Chpt 3
- His mind when wearied of its search for the essence of beauty amid the spectral words of Aristotle or Aquinas turned often for its pleasure to the dainty songs of the Elizabethans.†
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
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(essence) the defining or most important quality of something
or:
a extract that concentrates important qualities of something such as smell or taste