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Quatrains and Translations

ContentsQuatrainsTranslationsSonnet of Michel Angelo BuonarottiThe ExileFrom HafizEpitaphFriendshipFrom Omar KhayyamFrom Ali Ben Abu TalebFrom Ibn JeminThe FluteTo the ShahSong of Seyd…

Hadrian, Roman emperor

(Encyclopedia) HadrianHadrianhāˈdrēən [key], a.d. 76–138, Roman emperor (117–138), b. Spain. His name in full was Publius Aelius Hadrianus. An orphan, he became the ward of Trajan. Hadrian…

Brewer's: Angelites

(3 syl.). A branch of the Sabellian heretics; so called from Angelius, in Alexandria, where they used to meet. (Dr. Hook: Church Dictionary.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

William Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, Act V

Act VScene IA street before a PrioryEnter Second Merchant and AngeloAngeloI am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you; But, I protest, he had the chain of me, Though most dishonestly he doth…

Brewer's: Angelus

(The) A Roman Catholic devotion in honour of the Incarnation, instituted by Urban II. It consists of three texts, each said as versicle and response, and followed by the salutation of…

Brewer's: Michaelmas Day

September 29th, one of the quarter-days when rents are paid, and the day when magistrates are elected. Michael the archangel is represented in the Bible as the general of the celestial…

Brewer's: Michael

Prince of the celestial armies, commanded by God to drive the rebel angels out of heaven. Gabriel was next to him in command. (See Seven Spirits.) Longfellow, in his Golden Legend, says he…

1980 Olympic Judo Results

Class   Super-Lightweight (-132 1/2 lb) Thierry Rey, FRA   José Rodrigez, CUB   Tibor Kincses, HUN   Aramby Emizh, URS Welterweight (-143 1/4 lb) Nikolai Solodukhin, URS…

William Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, Act III

Act IIIScene IBefore the house of Antipholus of EphesusEnter Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of Ephesus, Angelo, and BalthazarOf EphesusGood Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all; My wife is…