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Love in movies has always been a staple theme for filmmakers. From dramatic love triangles to heartwarming stories of two people falling in love, the movies have provided us with some of…
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(The), in Longfellow's poem, we are told in an American newspaper, was Henry Francis Moore, of Medford, Massachusetts, born 1830. But as the Village Blacksmith was published in 1842, this…
(A). A doubtful or unsettled question. The Anglo-Saxon motian is “to debate”, and a moot point is one sub judice, or under debate. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
The nightingale. A Persian word, familiarised by Tom Moore. “'Twas like the notes, half-ecstasy, half-pain, The bulbul utters.” Moore: Lalla Rookh (Veiled Prophet, part 1, stanza 14).…
Cava's traitor sire. Cava or Florinda was the daughter of St. Julian. It was the violation of Cava by Roderick that brought about the war between the Goths and the Moors. St. Julian, to…
Easter, 1916I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words…
A Venetian gentleman in Shakespeare's Othello. He was in love with Desdemona, and when the lady eloped with Othello, hated the “noble Moor.” Iago took advantage of this temper for his own…
A mineral so called on account of the play of light which it exhibits. Wilkie Collins has a novel called The Moonstone. “The moonstone contains bluish-white spots, which, when held to the…
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