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Brewer's: Grub Street
Since 1830 called Milton Street, near Moorfields, London, once famous for literary hacks and inferior literary productions. The word is the Gothic graban (to dig), whence Saxon grab (a…Brewer's: Jacob the Scourge of Grammar
Giles Jacob, master of Romsey, in Hampshire, brought up for an attorney. A poetaster in the time of Pope. (See Dunciad, iii.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Cam and Isis
The universities of Cambridge and Oxford; so called from the rivers on which they stand. “May you, my Cam and Isis, preach it long, `The right divine of kings to govern wrong.' ” Pope:…Brewer's: Margites
The first dunce whose name has been transmitted to fame. His rivals are Codrus and Flecknoe. “Margites was the name ... whom Antiquity recordeth to have been dunce the first.” —Pope…Brewer's: Lick into Shape
(To). According to tradition the cubs of bears are cast shapeless, and remain so till the dam has licked them into proper form. So watchful Bruin forms, with plastic care, Each growing…Brewer's: Dulness
King of dulness. Colley Cibber, poet laureate after Eusden. `God save king Cibber!' mounts in every note . . . So when Jove's block descended from on high . . . Loud thunder to the bottom…Brewer's: Doctors
False dice, which are doctored, or made to turn up winning numbers. `The whole autechamber is full, my lord—knights and squires, doctors and dicers.' `The dicers with their doctors in…Brewer's: Samian Letter
(The). The letter Y, used by Pythagoras as an emblem of the straight narrow path of virtue, which is one, but, if once deviated from, the farther the lines are extended the wider becomes…Brewer's: Saturnian Days
Days of dulness, when everything is venal. Then rose the seed of Chaos and of Night To blot oat order and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days…Brewer's: Querno
Camillo Querno, of Apulia, hearing that Leo X. was a great patron of poets, went to Rome with a harp in his hand, and sang his Alexias, a poem containing 20,000 verses. He was introduced…Trending
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