(Encyclopedia) Chambers, William, 1800–1883, and Robert Chambers, 1802–71, Scottish authors and publishers. Their firm of W. and R. Chambers is best known for Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to Castor and PolluxHomer's Hymn to the SunHomer's Hymn to the Moon Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition; dated 1818.…
Act IVScene IA streetEnter Mistress Page, Mistress Quickly, and William PageMistress PageIs he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?Mistress QuicklySure he is by this, or will be presently…
Look Down Fair MoonLook down fair moon and bathe this scene,
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide,
Pour…
Scene IIThe Earl of Gloucester's castleEnter Edmund, with a letterEdmundThou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and…
Act IIIScene IThe wood. Titania lying asleepEnter Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, and StarvelingBottomAre we all met?QuincePat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place for our…
Scene IILondon. An apartment of the Prince'sEnter the Prince of Wales and FalstaffFalstaffNow, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?Prince HenryThou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack…
Scene IVA camp in WalesEnter Earl of Salisbury and a Welsh CaptainCaptainMy lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days,
And hardly kept our countrymen together,
And yet we hear no tidings…
(Encyclopedia) Bond, George Phillips, 1825–65, American astronomer, b. near Boston, grad. Harvard, 1845. He became the assistant of his father, William Cranch Bond, and in 1859 succeeded him as…
(Encyclopedia) Gaddis, William, 1922–98, American novelist, b. New York City. An erudite master of satire and black comedy, he was both praised and criticized for his avant-garde techniques—…
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