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Christina Rossetti: After This The Judgement
After This The JudgementAs eager homebound traveller to the goal, Or steadfast seeker on an unsearched main, Or martyr panting for an aureole, My fellow-pilgrims pass me, and attain That…Brewer's: Seven Champions of Christendom
is by Richard Johnson, who lived in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. (1) St. George of England was seven years imprisoned by the Almidor, the black King of Morocco. (2) St. Denys of…Brewer's: Jerusalem Delivered
An epic in twenty books, by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). The crusaders, encamped on the plains of Tortosa, chose Godfrey for their chief, and Alandine, King of Jerusalem, made preparations…Brewer's: Learn
(1 syl.). Live and learn. Cato, the censor, was an old man when he taught himself Greek. Michael Angelo, at seventy years of age, said, “I am still learning.” John Kemble wrote out Hamlet…Brewer's: April Fool
Called in France un poisson d'Avril (q.v.), and in Scotland a gowk (cuckoo). In Hindustan similar tricks are played at the Huli Festival (March 31st). So that it cannot refer to the…Brewer's: Aureola
A circle of light, emblematical of glory, placed by the old painters round the heads of martyrs and saints. The notion was derived from Exod. xxv. 25. Facies coronam aureolam (“Thou shalt…Colossians: 4
Colossians Chapter 4 1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. 2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same…Zechariah: 10
Zechariah Chapter 10 1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field…Micah: 4
Micah Chapter 4 1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted…State of the Union Address: John Tyler (December 7, 1841)
John Tyler (December 7, 1841) To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: In coming together, fellow-citizens, to enter again upon the discharge of the duties with which the…Trending
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