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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Bigotry's Victim
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Stanza from a Translation of t...On an Icicle that Clung to the...Bigotry's Victim Published (without title) by Hogg, "Life of Shelley", 1858; dated 1809-10. The…Coleridge: Kubla Khan
ChristabelLoveKubla Khan In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea…Dada
(Encyclopedia) DadaDadadäˈdä [key] or DadaismDadadäˈdäĭzəm [key], international nihilistic movement among European artists and writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922. Born of the widespread…particle detector
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Particle detector—Bubble chamber: A. Pressure drops as piston is raised; B. Charged particles passing through chamber ionize atoms in liquid; C. Bubbles form around atoms and…Siena
(Encyclopedia) SienaSienasyĕˈnä [key], city (1991 pop. 56,956), capital of Siena prov., Tuscany, central Italy. Rich in art treasures and historic architecture, it is one of the most popular tourist…Brewer's: Acadine
A fountain of Sicily which revealed if writings were authentic and genuine or not. The writings to be tested were thrown into the fountain, and if spurious they sank to the bottom. Oaths…Brewer's: Hippocrene
(3 syl.). The fountain of the Muses, produced by a stroke of the hoof of Pegasos (Greek, hippos, horse; krene, fountain). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Aganippe
(4 syl.). A fountain of Boeotia at the foot of Mount Helicon, dedicated to the Muses, because it had the virtue of imparting poetic inspiration. From this fountain the Muses are called…Brewer's: Salmacis
A fountain of Caria, which rendered effeminate all those who bathed therein. It was in this fountain that Hermaphroditus changed his sex. (Ovid: Metamorphoses, iv. 285, and xvi. 319.) “Thy…Brewer's: Salsabil
A fountain in Paradise. (Al Koran, xxvi.) “Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. A houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of…Trending
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