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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 17

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 16Chapter 18Chapter 17 A week later Dorian Gray was sitting in the conservatory at Selby Royal, talking to the pretty Duchess of Monmouth, who with her husband…

England

(Encyclopedia) England, the largest and most populous portion of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2022Se pop. 68,429,595), 50,…

William Shakespeare: King Lear, Act II, Scene II

Scene IIBefore Gloucester's castleEnter Kent and Oswald, severallyOswaldGood dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?KentAy.OswaldWhere may we set our horses?KentI' the mire.OswaldPrithee…

Brewer's: Cameronians

The strictest sect of Scotch Presbyterians, organised in 1680, by Richard Cameron, who was slain in battle at Aird's Moss in 1680. He objected to the alliance of Church and State. In 1876…

Brewer's: Camillus

five times Dictator of Rome, was falsely accused of embezzlement, and went into voluntary exile; but when the Gauls besieged Rome, he returned and delivered his country. “Camillus, only…