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Virginia Woolf
Name at birth: Adeline Virginia StephenVirginia Woolf is remembered as both a feminist and a modernist whose novels often ignored traditional plots to follow the inner lives and musings of her…William Shakespeare: Richard II, Act I, Scene II
Scene IIThe Duke of Lancaster's palaceEnter John of Gaunt with DuchessJohn of GauntAlas, the part I had in Woodstock's blood Doth more solicit me than your exclaims, To stir against the…William Shakespeare: Henry IV (Pt 2), Act I, Scene III
Scene IIIYork. The Archbishop's palaceEnter the Archbishop of York, the Lords Hastings, Mowbray, and BardolphArchbishop of YorkThus have you heard our cause and known our means; And, my most…Brewer's: Amundeville
Lady Adeline Amundeville, a lady who “had a twilight tinge of blue,” could make epigrams, give delightful soirées, and was fond of making matches. —Bryon: Don Juan, xv., xvi. Source:…Woolf, Virginia
(Encyclopedia) Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941, English novelist and essayist, b. Adeline Virgina Stephen; daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen. A successful innovator in the form of the novel, she is…The Devil's Dictionary: Rimer
by Ambrose Bierce RIMERIOTRIMER -n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the…William Shakespeare: Richard II, Dramatis Personae
Dramatis PersonaeKing Richard, the Second.Uncles to the King.John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.Edmund of Langley, Duke of York.Henry, surnamed Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, Son to John of…William Shakespeare: Henry IV (Pt 2), Dramatis Personae
Dramatis PersonaeRumour, the Presenter.King Henry, the Fourth. Sons of King Henry.Prince Henry of Wales afterwards King Henry V.Thomas, Duke OF, ClarencePrince Humphrey, of GloucesterOthers.…Brewer's: Percy
[pierce-eye ]. When Malcolm III. of Scotland invaded England, and reduced the castle of Alnwick, Robert de Mowbray brought to him the keys of the castle suspended on his lance; and,…Brewer's: Palindrome
(3 syl.). A word or line which reads backwards and forwards alike, as Madam, also Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor. (Greek, palin dromo, to run back again.) (See Sotadic.) The following…Trending
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