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Brewer's: Blaney
A wealthy heir, ruined by dissipation, in Crabbe's Borough. Misery and mirth are blended in his face, Much innate vileness and some outward grace:... The serpent's cunning and the sinner's…Brewer's: Sapphics
A Greek and Latin metre, so named from Sappho, the inventor. Horace always writes this metre in four-line stanzas, the last being an Adonic. There must be a caesura at the fifth foot of…Brewer's: Saxon English
The “Lord's Prayer” is almost all of it Anglo-Saxon. The words trespasses, trespass, and temptation are of Latin origin. The substitution of “debts” and “debtors” (as “forgive us our debts…Brewer's: Golden Chain
“Faith is the golden chain to link the penitent sinner unto God” (Jeremy Taylor). The allusion is to a passage in Homer's Iliad (i. 19-30), where Zeus says, If a golden chain were let down…Choosing a Pope
Learn how a new pope is selected upon the death or retirement of a sitting pontiff Benedict XVI Related Links Biography of Benedict XVI Major Religions of the World…Notable Female Athletes
Martina Hingis Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and Models…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Epistle To John Rankine
by Robert Burns Reply To An Announcement By J....A Poet's Welcome To His Love-B...Epistle To John Rankine Enclosing Some Poems O Rough, rude, ready-witted Rankine, 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…James: 4
James Chapter 4 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to…2 Esdras: 15
2 Esdras Chapter 15 1 Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord: 2 And cause them to be written in paper:…Trending
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