or Doddiman. A snail. A word still common in Norfolk; but Fairfax, in his Bulk and Selvedge (1674), speaks of “a snayl or dodman.” Doddiman, doddiman, put out your horn, Here comes a thief…
That verse in which epic poetry is generally written. In Greek and Latin it is hexameter verse, in English it is ten-syllable iambic verse, either in rhymes or not; in Italian it is the…
I'vanhoe (3 syl.). Sir Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, is the disinherited son of Cedric of Rotherwood. He is first introduced as a pilgrim, in which guise he enters his father's hall, where…
A term of endearment for a smart, bright little fellow; a Jemmy Jessamy. Smart she is, and handy, O ! Sweet as sugar-candy, O ! ... `And I'm her Jack-a-dandy, O ! Jack-a-dandy. Slang for…
(to rhyme with “now”). You have got the wrong sow by the ear. Sow is a large tub with two ears or handles; it is used for pickling or sowsing. The expression means, therefore, You have got…
IRight upward on the road of fame
With sounding steps the poet came;
Born and nourished in miracles,
His feet were shod with golden bells,
Or where he stepped the soil did peal
As if the dust…
by Robert Burns A New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockThe Wounded HareSketch In Verse Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox. How wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite,…
by Robert Burns Song-Here's To Thy HealthRonalds Of The Bennals, The In Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men,
And proper young lasses and a', man;
But ken ye the…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death
Hell
The Devil
The Devil, I safely can aver,
Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting;
Nor is he, as some sages swear,
A spirit, neither here nor there,
In nothing—…
or Ralpho. The squire of Hudibras. The model was Isaac Robinson, a zealous butcher in Moorfields, always contriving some queer art of church government. He represents the Independent party…
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