by Robert Burns The PosiePoem On Pastoral PoetryOn Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His Chain A Fragment, 1791. Thou, Liberty, thou art my theme;
Not such as idle poets dream…
by Robert Burns Song-Yon Wild Mossy MountainsAddress To A HaggisAddress To Edinburgh Edina! Scotia's darling seat!
All hail thy palaces and tow'rs,
Where once, beneath a…
or Holy Thursday. The day set apart by the Catholic and Anglican Church to commemorate the ascent of our Lord from earth to heaven. Formerly it was customary to beat the bounds of each…
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…
[Rod-reé-go] or Roderick, King of Spain, conquered by the Arabs. He saved his life by flight, and wandered to Guadalet'e, where he saw a shepherd, and asked food. In return he gave the…
(St.). Patron saint of archers, because he was bound to a tree and shot at with arrows. As the arrows stuck in his body, thick as pins in a pin-cushion, he was also made patron saint of…
A rod in pickle. One ready to chastise with at any moment. Pickled means preserved for use. (Danish, pekel.) I'm in a pretty pickle. In a sorry plight, or state of disorder. “How camst…
Take him, Topham. Catch him if you can; lay hold of him, tipstaff. Topham was the Black Rod of the House of Commons in the reign of Charles II., very active in apprehending “suspects”…
through which Christian had to pass in order to get to the Celestial City. The prophet Jeremiah describes it as a “wilderness, a land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought and of the…
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