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Coined by William Shakespeare in 1609 in "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," act 1, scene 3:
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primrose path (複数形 primrose paths)
- An easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation.
- 1902, George Edward Woodberry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chapter 2: The Chamber under the Eaves,
- 1911, Frederic Taber Cooper, Preface to The Craftsmanship of Writing,
- The laurels of authorship are worth the winning largely because there is no primrose path leading to them.
- A deceptively easy or appealing course of action that leads one astray or into error.
- 1986, Stuart Shanker, Philosophy in Britain Today, page 118:
- The route from the desire for rationality via the desire for objectivity to descriptivism is a well trodden one; but it is nevertheless a primrose path; for, as we shall see, it leads those who follow it into one or another form of relativism, which is precisely what these thinkers are trying to avoid. They can only avoid it by retracing their steps.
This primrose path starts from the assumption that the only way to achieve rationality is to secure objectivity.
- (euphemistic) The life of prostitution.
- 1902, George Bernard Shaw, The Author's Apology, in (1902 edition of) Mrs Warren's Profession, 2006 Gutenberg eBook edition,
- Even if these purely official catastrophes carried any conviction, the majority of English girls remain so poor, so dependent, so well aware that the drudgeries of such honest work as is within their reach are likely enough to lead them eventually to lung disease, premature death, and domestic desertion or brutality, that they would still see reason to prefer the primrose path to the strait path of virtue, since both, vice at worst and virtue at best, lead to the same end in poverty and overwork.
- 2002, Bernhard A. Baur, editor, Encyclopaedic Study of Woman and Love, page 381:
- There is one thing that male citizens must note. They must not give countenance to prostitution ; they must not demand the commodity and thus increase the supply; they must not tread the primrose path and contract venereal disease and then spread it. Men too must show a conscience in the matter.
- 1902, George Bernard Shaw, The Author's Apology, in (1902 edition of) Mrs Warren's Profession, 2006 Gutenberg eBook edition,
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