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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to Heaven
by Percy Bysshe Shelley An Ode, Written October, 1819Ode to the West WindOde to Heaven Published with "Prometheus Unbound", 1820. Dated 'Florence, December, 1819' in Harvard manuscript (…Weather Disasters
Cyclones become so massive they can be easily seen from space. While these types of disasters generally occur within particular times of year, due to the prevailing climate, they are caused by very…Brewer's: Boreas
The north wind. According to mythology, he was the son of Astræus, a Titan, and Eos, the morning, and lived in a cave of Mount Hæmus, in Thrace. (Greek, boros, voracious; Boreas, the north…Brewer's: Cromlech
A large stone resting on two or more others, like a table. (Welsh, crom, bent; llech, a flat stone.) Weyland Smith's cave (Berkshire), Trevethy stone (Cornwall), Kit's Coty House (Kent).…Brewer's: Dab, Din
etc. Hab Dab and David Din Ding the deil o'er Dabson's Linn. “Hab Dab” means Halbert Dobson; “David Din” means David Dun; and “Dabson's Linn,” or Dob's Linn, is a waterfall near the head…Brewer's: Nativity
(The) means Christmas Day, the anniversary of the birth of Jesus. The Cave of the Nativity is under the chancel of the “church of the Nativity.” In the recess, a few feet above the ground…Brewer's: Nottingham
(Saxon, Snotingaham, place of caves). So called from the caverns in the soft sandstone rock. Montecute took King Edward III. through these subterranean passages to the hill castle, where…Brewer's: Tannhauser
(3 syl.). A legendary hero of Germany, who wins the affections of Lisaura; but Lisaura, hearing that Sir Tannhäuser has set out for Venusberg to kiss the queen of love and beauty, destroys…Brewer's: Queubus
The equinoctial of Queubus. This line has Utopia on one side and Medamothi on the other. It was discovered on the Greek Kalends by Outis after his escape from the giant's cave, and is…Brewer's: Rule
(St.) or St. Regulus, a monk of Patrae in Achaia, is the real saint of Scotland. He was the first to colonise its metropolitan see, and to convert the inhabitants (370). The name Killrule…Trending
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