A holiday observed by journeyman shoemakers and other inferior mechanics, and well-to-do merchants. In the Journal of the Folk-lore Society, vol. i. p. 245, we read that, “While Cromwell's…
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by JohnKeatsTo Leigh Hunt, Esq."What more felicity can fall to creature, "What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty." Fate of the Butterfly -Spenser…
ExpostulationJohn DonneIF I were but mere dust and ashes I might speak unto the Lord, for the Lord's hand made me of this dust, and the Lord's hand shall re-collect these ashes; the Lord's…
(Encyclopedia) Mivart, St. George JacksonMivart, St. George Jacksonmīˈvərt [key], 1827–1900, English anatomist and biologist. He contributed important anatomical studies of the insectivores and…
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ExpostulationJohn Donne DAVID professes himself dead dog to his king Saul, [1 Sam. 24:15] and so doth Mephibosheth to his king David, [2 Sam. 9:8] and yet David speaks to Saul, and…
by JohnKeatsTo Leigh Hunt, Esq.Specimen of an Induction to a Poem"Places of nestling green for Poets made." "Places of nestling green for Poets made." Story of Rimini I stood tip-toe upon…
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