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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais, Preface

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais Preface Pharmakon elthe, Bion, poti son stoma, pharmakon eides. pos ten tois cheilessi potesrame, kouk eglukanthe; tis de Brotos tossouton anameros, e kerasai…

Brewer's: Longius

The Roman soldier who smote our Lord with his spear. In the romance of King Arthur, this spear was brought by Joseph of Arimathea to Listenise, when he visited King Pellam, “who was nigh…

Brewer's: Macduff

The thane of Fife. A Scotch nobleman whose castle of Kennoway was surprised by Macbeth, and his wife and babes “savagely slaughtered.” Macduff vowed vengeance and joined the army of Siward…

Brewer's: O'gres

of nursery mythology are giants of very malignant dispositions, who live on human flesh. It is an Eastern invention, and the word is derived from the Ogurs, a desperately savage horde of…

Brewer's: Hawkubites

(3 syl.). Street bullies in the reign of Queen Anne. It was their delight to molest and ill-treat the old watchmen, women, children, and feeble old men who chanced to be in the streets…

Brewer's: Guido

surnamed the Savage (in Orlando Furioso), son of Constantia and Amon, therefore younger brother of Rinaldo. He was also Astolpho's kinsman. Being wrecked on the coast of the Amazons, he…

Brewer's: Bayes's Troops

Dead men may rise again, like Bayes's troops, or the savages in the Fantocini (Something New). In the Rehearsal, by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, a battle is fought between foot-…

Brewer's: Bistonians

The Thracians; so called from Biston, son of Mars, who built Bistonia on the Lake Bistonis. So the Bistonian race, a maddening train, Exult and revel on the Thracian plain; With milk their…

Brewer's: Cussedness

Ungainliness; perversity, an evil temper; malice prepense. Halliwell gives cuss = surly. “The turkey-cock is just as likely as not to trample on the young turkeys and smash them, or to…