by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn to Intellectual BeautyThe Sunset There late was One within whose subtle being,
As light and wind within some delicate cloud
That fades amid the blue noon's…
So the wife of Phillipe, Duc d'Orléans was styled in the reign of Louis XIV.; other ladies were only Madame This or That. Madame la Duchessc. Wife of Henri-Jules de Bourbon, eldest son of…
Macedonia's madman. Alexander the Great. (B.C. 356, 336-323.) The brilliant madman or Madman of the North. Charles XII. of Sweden. (1682, 1697-1718.) Heroes are much the same, the point's…
The youngest son of Owain Gwyneth, King of North Wales, who died in 1169. According to tradition he sailed away to America, and established a colony on the southern branches of the…
The Midsummer banquet. Brand mentions nine alefeasts: “Bride-ales, church-ales, clerk-ales, give-ales, lamb-ales, leet-ales, Midsummer-ales, Scot-ales, Whitsun-ales, and several more.”…
Imposed upon, let in, made to suffer loss. “I was terribly bitten in that affair.” I suffered great loss. To bite is to cheat or suffer retaliation. Thus, Pope says, “The rogue was bit,”…
Botanical name, Cynorrhodos—i.e. Greek Kuno-rodon, dog-rose; so called because it was supposed to cure the bite of a mad dog (Rosa Canina, wild brier). “A morsu vero [i.e. of a mad dog]…
