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Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Mary
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Witch of AtlasTo Mary (On Her Objecting to the Following Poem, Upon the Score of Its Containing No Human Interest). How, my dear Mary,—are you critic-bitten…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Preface to his Poetical Works
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Preface by Mrs. Shelley Preface This edition of his "Poetical Works" contains all Shelley's ascertained poems and fragments of verse that have hitherto appeared in…Homework Helper Answer Fun Facts: English
Homework Topics English | Geography | History | Math | Science | Social Studies English Literature Middle English Literature Anglo-Saxon Literature Literary Forms The Novel Short…Brewer's: Runic Wands
Willow wands with mystic characters inscribed on them, used by the Scandinavians for magic ceremonies. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RunnymedeRunic Rhymes…Brewer's: Ribaldry
is the language of a ribald. (French, ribaud; Old French, ribaudie; Italian, ribalderia, the language of a vagabond or rogue.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Three-quarters
or 3/4. Rhyming slang for the neck. This certainly is a most ingenious perversion. “Three-quarters of a peck ” rhymes with neck, so, in writing, an expert simply sets down 3/4. (See Chivy…Brewer's: Mother Goose
A name associated with nursery rhymes. She was born in Boston, and her eldest daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Fleet, the printer. Mrs. Goose used to sing the rhymes to her grandson, and…Brewer's: Letter-Gae
The precentor is called by Allen Ramsay “The Letter-gae of haly rhyme.” “Holy rhyme” means hymns or chants. “There were no sae mony hairs on the warlock's face as there's on Letter-gae's…Brewer's: Crambo
Repetition. So called from a game which consists in some one setting a line which another is to rhyme to, but no one word of the first line must occur in the second. Dumb crambo.…Brewer's: Coal
Hot as a coal. The expression has an obvious allusion To post the coal or cole To pay or put down the cash. Coal=money has been in use in the sporting world for very many years. Buxton,…Trending
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