Crossword-Solution: DELIAS 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

With this complexion and these qualifications, no wonder that our hero attracted the notice and affections of the young Delias in town, whose hearts had just begun to flutter for they knew not what.

But, as for all your warbling Delias, Orpheuses and Saint Cecilias, He owned he thought them much surpast By that redoubted Hyaloclast[7] Who still contrived by dint of throttle, Where'er he went to crack a bottle.

Even their Delias and their Amandas are often the shadows of some real object; for as Shakspeare's experience told him, "Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs." Their imagination is perpetually colouring those pictures of domestic happiness on which they delight to dwell.

Behind this working-room were retiring-rooms, and a small but valuable library of choice manuscripts by Callinus, the Elegiac poet; Batalus, the musician; Dion, Andron, Delias, and Daphnus, the philosophers; with works by Phavorinus, Zenodotus, Menander, and many others.

The Delias and Cynthias of the poets, who kept the fasts of Isis, were assuredly not models of virtue.