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Brewer's: Blaney
A wealthy heir, ruined by dissipation, in Crabbe's Borough. Misery and mirth are blended in his face, Much innate vileness and some outward grace:... The serpent's cunning and the sinner's…Brewer's: Foot-notes
Notes placed at the bottom of a page. A trifling sum of misery Now added to the foot of thy account. Dryden. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Foot-poundFoot…Brewer's: Hext
When bale is hext, boot is next. When things come to the worst they must soon mend. Bale means misery, hurt, misfortune; hext is highest, as next is nighest; boot means help, profit.…Brewer's: Fico
(See Fig.) “Fico for the phrase.” Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, i.3. “I see contempt marching forth, giving me the fico with his thombe in his mouth.” —Wit's Miserie (1596).…Brewer's: Mastic
A tonic which promotes appetite, and therefore only increases the misery of a hungry man. Like the starved wretch that hungry mastic chews, But cheats himself and fosters his disease.…Brewer's: St. Leon
became possessed of the elixir of life, and the power of transmuting the baser metals into gold, but these acquisitions only brought him increased misery. (WilliamGoodwin: St Leon.)…Brewer's: Apicius
A gourmand. Apicius was a Roman gourmand, whose income being reduced by his luxurious living to £80,000, put an end to his life, to avoid the misery of being obliged to live on plain diet…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Note on the Witch of Atlas, by Mrs. Shelley
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Witch of AtlasNote on the Witch of Atlas, by Mrs. Shelley We spent the summer of 1820 at the Baths of San Giuliano, four miles from Pisa. These baths were of…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell, The Devil
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Death Hell The Devil The Devil, I safely can aver, Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting; Nor is he, as some sages swear, A spirit, neither here nor there, In nothing—…Brewer's: Moscow
So called from the river Moscowa, on which it is built. The monarch of Moscow. A large bell weighing 193 tons, 21 feet high, and 21 feet in diameter. [So-and-So] was my Moscow. The…Trending
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