I can remember when Maurice Mangan was to be a great poet, a great Metaphysician, a great-I don't know what.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
Croce, who has, however, something of the Metaphysician and mystic in him, is not in sympathy with this view, for he ridicules the idea that the genesis of aesthetism lies in the desire of the male for the female.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
No doubt that may suggest very interesting inquiries for the Metaphysician; but we should find not only that the philosophy is very tough and very obsolete, and therefore very wearisome for any but the strongest intellectual appetites, but also that it does not really answer our question.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen