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Brewer's: Alto relievo
Italian for “high relief.” A term used in sculpture for figures in wood, stone, marble, etc., so cut as to project at least one-half from the tablet. It should be rilievo (3 syl.).…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Alphonso of Castile
Alphonso of CastileI, Alphonso, live and learn, Seeing Nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind; Lemons run to leaves and rind; Meagre crop of figs and limes; Shorter days and harder…Walt Whitman: A Broadway Pageant, Part 2
Part 2Superb-faced Manhattan! Comrade Americanos! to us, then at last the Orient comes. To us, my city, Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in…<em>Twilight</em> Movie Review
The film adaptation remains true to Stephanie Meyer's best-selling novel by Catherine McNiff Related Links Twilight TriviaTwilight QuizTwilight PollTwilight HangmanTwilight PageWhat does…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Lass That Made The Bed To Me
by Robert Burns The Cooper O' CuddyHad I The Wyte? She Bade MeThe Lass That Made The Bed To Me When Januar' wind was blawing cauld, As to the north I took my way, The…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Note on Poems of 1818, by Mrs. Shelley
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: The Vine-ShroudNote on Poems of 1818, by Mrs. Shelley We often hear of persons disappointed by a first visit to Italy. This was not Shelley's case. The…Brewer's: Catacomb
A subterranean place for the burial of the dead. The Persians have a city they call Comb or Coom, full of mausoleums and the sepulchres of the Persian saints. (Greek, kata-kumbe, a hollow…Brewer's: Laocoon
[La-ok'-o-on ]. A son of Priam, famous for the tragic fate of himself and his two sons, who were crushed to death by serpents. The group representing these three in their death agony, now…Brewer's: Belphoebe
meant for Queen Elizabeth. She was sister of Amoret. Equally chaste, but of the Diana and Minerva type. Cold as an icicle, passionless, immovable. She is a white flower without perfume,…Brewer's: Billiards
A corrupt form of the French billard. “Autrefois, le bâton avec lequel on poussait les billes”; then “la table verte sur laquelle on joue”; and, lastly, the “game itself.” Similar plural…Trending
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