The expression “Balzacian age” came into use after the appearance in 1842 of Honoré de Balzac's novel “The Woman of Thirty”
A woman of Balzacian age is between thirty and forty
A woman of Balzacian age is between thirty and forty
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least