by Robert Burns Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ.,...The Song Of DeathSecond Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry 5th October 1791. Late crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg…
by Robert Burns Third Epistle To J. LapraikSecond Epistle to DavieEpistle To The Rev. John M'math Sept. 13, 1785. Inclosing A Copy Of "Holy Willie's Prayer," Which He Had…
From the teeth outwards. Merely talk; without real significance. “Much of the ... talk about General Gordon lately was only from the teeth outwards.” —The Daily News, 1886. To set one's…
For There's Bishop's TeignLines Rhymed in a Letter from OxfordLa Belle Dame sans Merci A Ballad Original version Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?…
A contraction of ditto, which is the Italian détto (said), Latin dictus. How do you do? i.e. How do you fare? It should be, How do you du (Anglo-Saxon, dug-an = valere); in Latin, Quomodo…
An ass. It was made to rhyme with “monkey,” but is never now so pronounced. The word means a little tawny or dun-coloured animal. Donkey. The cross of the donkey's back is popularly…
Preface It is necessary that some brief explanation should be given with reference to the arrangement of the Suras, or chapters, adopted in this translation of the Koran. It should be…
by JohnKeatsTo My Brother GeorgeTo George Felton Mathew Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song;
Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to view
A…
by Robert Burns Second Epistle To J. LapraikPostcriptEpistle To William Simson Schoolmaster, Ochiltree.-May, 1785 I gat your letter, winsome Willie;
Wi' gratefu' heart I…
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