forgetive

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“Antony and Cleopatra,” iv, 14, 9. quick, forgetive.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

With an understanding fertile, subtle, expansive, "quick, forgetive, apprehensive," beyond all living precedent, few traces of it will perhaps remain.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

Being quick and forgetive in his mental operations, even while completing his toilet, he had formed a plan for an attack upon the kingdom of darkness lying around him.

From Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Savage, Mrs. William T.

Howsoever "apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes" his brain may be, it never gambols from the superintendence of his reason and understanding.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various

O quick and forgetive power! that sometimes dost So rob us of ourselves, we take no mark Though round about us thousand trumpets clang!

From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory by Cary, Henry Francis