(3 syl.). Daughter of King Pepin, and bride of her cousin Valentine, the brother of Orson. She soon died. (Valentine and Orson.) Madame Eglantine. The prioress in Chaucer's Canterbury…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to MinervaThe CyclopsHomer's Hymn to Venus Published by Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862; dated 1818. Verses 1-55, with some omissions. Muse, sing…
by Rabindranath Tagore IIIIII My husband at last had finished his medical course. He went away from Calcutta to a small town to practise as a doctor. There in the country I felt with…
The god of love, and son of Venus. According to fable he wets with blood the grindstone on which he sharpens his arrows. Ferus et Cupido Semper ardentes acuens sagittas.' Horace: 2 Odes,…
Virtuous love. “Cupid's leaden arrow,” sensual passion. Deque sagittifera promsit duo tela pharetra Diversorum operum; fugat hoc, facit illud amorem. Quod facit auratum est, et cuspide…
One who loves to have the pre-eminence among others. (3 John 9.) “Neither a desperate Judas, like the prelate Sharpe [archbishop of St. Andrew's who was murdered], that's gone to his place…
[Greek axine, Latin ascia, Italian accetta, French hachette, our hatchet and axe.) To bury the hatchet. (See Bury.) To throw the hatchet. To tell false-hoods. In allusion to an ancient…
(The). Homer, Dante, and Milton. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both…
In 1 Sam. xviii. 4 we read that Jonathan (the king's son) “stripped himself of his robe and gave it to David, with his sword, bow, and girdle.” This was a mark of honour, as princes and…
(A). A mob-cap. Upon her head a small mob-cap she placed. Of lawn so stiff, with large flowered ribbon graced, Yclept a knot and bridle; in a bow, Of scarlet flaming, her long chin below…
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