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Kemble, Roger
(Encyclopedia) Kemble, Roger, 1721–1802, English actor and manager. During his years as the leader of a traveling company, he married (1753) Sarah Wood, 1735–1806, an actress. They had 12 children,…pink
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Deptford pink, Dianthus armeria pink, common name for some members of the Caryophyllaceae, a family of small herbs found chiefly in north temperate zones (especially the…1964 Tony Awards
PlayLutherMusicalHello, Dolly!Alec Guinness, DylanArchive PhotosActor—PlayAlec Guinness, DylanActress—PlaySandy Dennis, Any WednesdaySupporting or Featured Actor—PlayHume Cronyn,…Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 4
Part 4What do you see Walt Whitman? Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you? I see a great round wonder rolling through space, I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins,…Brewer's: Lynchnobians
Booksellers and publishers. Rabelais says they inhabit a little hamlet near Lantern-land, and live by lanters. (Pantagruel, v. 33.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Narrow House
or Home. A coffin; the grave. Gray calls the grave a “narrow cell.” Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Elegy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Or Ever
Ere ever. (Saxon, aer, before.) “Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio.” Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 2. “Dying or ere they sicken.” Macbeth, iv. 2. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Hawk and Handsaw
I know a hawk from a handsaw. Handsaw is a corruption of hernshaw (a heron). I know a hawk from a heron, the bird of prey from the game flown at. The proverb means, I know one thing from…Brewer's: Emne
Your emne Christen (Bosworth), i.e. your even or fellow Christian. Shakespeare (Hamlet, v. 1) has “your even Christian.” (Anglo-Saxon, Emne-cristen, fellow-Christian.) Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: John-a-Dreams
A stupid, dreamy fellow, always in a brown study and half asleep. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing.…Trending
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