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John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
by John Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnOde to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Note on Poems of 1817, by Mrs. Shelley
by Percy Bysshe Shelley OzymandiasNote on Poems of 1817, by Mrs. Shelley The very illness that oppressed, and the aspect of death which had approached so near Shelley, appear to have…Brewer's: Dunmow
To eat Dunmow bacon. To live in conjugal amity, without even wishing the marriage knot to be less firmly tied. The allusion is to the institution of Robert Fitzwalter. Between 1244 and…Brewer's: Platonism
The philosophical system of Plato; dialectics. Locke maintains that the mind is by nature a sheet of white paper, the five senses being the doors of knowledge. Plato maintained the…Brewer's: Psyche
[Syke]. A beautiful maiden beloved by Cupid, who visited her every night, but left her at sunrise. Cupid bade her never seek to know who he was, but one night curiosity overcame her…Brewer's: Symbolism of Colours
whether displayed in dresses, the background of pictures, or otherwise: Black typifies grief, death. Blue, hope, love of divine works; (in dresses) divine contemplation, piety,…Classical Mythology: The Final Battles
The Final BattlesClassical MythologyAchilles: The Angry Young HeroDon't Try This at Home!To War!The Final Battles Though Achilles himself would not fight, he agreed to lend his armor to his squire,…2 Timothy: 1
2 Timothy Chapter 1 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace,…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Revolt of Islam, Author's Preface
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Dedication Author's Preface The Poem which I now present to the world is an attempt from which I scarcely dare to expect success, and in which a writer of established…Brihadaranyaka-Upanishad: Fourth Adhyâya, Third Brahmana
Third Brahmana1.Yagnavalkya came to Ganaka Vaideha, and he did not mean to speak with him. But when formerly Ganaka Vaideha and Yagnavalkya had a disputation on the Agnihotra, Yagnavalkya had…Trending
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