For solution see Notes and Queries, xvi. 156; xvii. 83. In Latin alcaics, thus: Sedens Johannes parvus in angulo Hornerus edit crustula Christanica; Et dixit, ut pruna extrahebat Pollice…
Benjamin BrittenArchive PhotosJohann Sebastian BachArchive PhotosBaroque VocalBach, St. Matthew Passion, John Eliot Gardiner conducting Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists (Archiv)…
Bearded Master (Magister barbatus). So Persius styled Socrates, under the notion that the beard is the symbol of wisdom. (B.C.468-399.) Pogonatus (Bearded). Constantine IV., Emperor of…
The celebrated painter, born 1474, died 1563. The Michael-Angelo of battle-scenes. Michael-Angelo Cerquozzi, a native of Rome, famous for his battle-scenes and shipwrecks. (1600-1660.)…
The horse of Lord Marmion. (Sir Walter Scott.) (See Horse.) Bevis of Southampton. A knight of romance, whose exploits are recounted in Drayton's Polyolbion. The French call him Beuves de…
His proper name was Francois Marie Arouet. The word Voltaire is simply an anagram of Arouet L. I. (le jeune). Thus have we Stella, Astrophel (q.v.), Vanessa and Cadenus (q.v.), and a host…
