Woe to any artist who disengages Beauty from the wide background of rudeness, darkness, and strength,-and disengages her from absolute nature!
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
The sadness which disengages from things that have fallen into disuse is infinite.
"Romance of the Rabbit"
Francis Jammes
Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense.
"Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia"
Samuel Johnson