desserts

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Where he narrates or describes, he is always lively and interesting; where he disserts or grows learned, he gives up his vantage-ground, and must consent to be dull like everybody else.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

He afterwards disserts very profoundly on the music there is in beauty, "and the silent note which Cupid strikes is far sweeter than the sound of an instrument."

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac