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Brewer's: Abdiel
Ab′diel The faithful seraph who withstood Satan when he urged the angels to revolt. (See Paradise Lost, Bk. v., lines 896, etc.) “[He] adheres, with the faith of Abdiel, to the ancient…Brewer's: Ithuriel
One of the angels commissioned by Gabriel to search for Satan, who had effected his entrance into Paradise. The other angel who accompanied him was Zephon (Ithuriel means “the discovery of…Brewer's: Dorothea
(St.), represented with a rose-branch in her hand, a wreath of roses on her head, and roses with fruit by her side; sometimes with an angel carrying a basket with three apples and three…Brewer's: Epic
Father of epic poetry. Homer (about 950 B.C.), author of the Iliad and Odyssey. Celebrated epics are the Iliad, Odyssey, Æneid, Paradise Lost. The great Puritan epic. Milton's Paradise…The Koran/Sura LXXIX — Those Who Drag Forth
Sura LXXIX[93] — Those Who Drag ForthMecca — 46 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful By those angels who DRAG FORTH souls with violence, And by those who with joyous…The Koran/ Sura XLVII — Muhammad
Sura[990] XLVII — Muhammad Medina — 40 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful WHOSO believe not, and prevent others from the way of God—their works will He cause to…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Cancelled Passages of Adonais
by Percy Bysshe Shelley AdonaisCancelled Passages of Adonais [Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862.] Passages of the Preface ...the expression of my indignation and…Brewer's: Amaranth
Clement of Alexandria says —Amarantus flos, symbolum est immortalitatis. The word is from the Greek amarantos (everlasting). So called because its flowers never fade like other flowers,…Brewer's: Parallel
None but himself can be his parallel. Wholly without a peer; “Quaris Alcidae parem;” “nemo proximus nec secundus.” There are many similar sentences; for example: “Nemo est nisi ipse.” —…Brewer's: Hip! Hip! Hurrah!
Hip is said to be a notarica, composed of the initial letters of Hicrosolyma Est Perdita. Henri van Laun says, in Notes and Queries, that whenever the German knights headed a Jew-hunt in…Trending
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