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The Second Book of Modern Verse: Appendix B. Notes to the text:
Appendix B. Notes to the text:Though most of the publishers only required acknowledgements in the section devoted to such, one apparently insisted that they also appear in the text. These…Anna Hempstead Branch: The Name
The NameAnna Hempstead BranchWhen I come back from secret dreams In gardens deep and fair, How very curious it seems — This mortal name I bear.For by this name I make their bread And trim…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, August 7, 1806
Day 1527 Day 1529 Lewis, August 7, 1806 Thursday August 7th 1806. It began to rain about midnight and continued with but little intermission until 10 A.M. today. the air was cold and…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Scots' Prologue For Mr. Sutherland
by Robert Burns Sketch-New Year's Day [1790]Lines To A Gentleman,Scots' Prologue For Mr. Sutherland On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries. What needs this din about…Brewer's: Bungay
Go to Bungay with you! —i.e. get away and don't bother me, or don't talk such stuff. Bungay, in Suffolk, used to be famous for the manufacture of leather breeches, once very fashionable.…Brewer's: Cudgel One's Brains
(To). To make a painful effort to remember or understand something. The idea is from taking a stick to beat a dull boy under the notion that dulness is the result of temper or inattention…Brewer's: Pirie's Chair
“The lowest seat o' hell.” “If you do not mend your ways, you will be sent to Pirie's chair, the lowest seat of hell.” In Pirie's chair you'll sit, I say, The lowest seat o' hell; If ye do…Brewer's: Go to!
A curtailed oath. “Go to the devil!” or some such phrase. Cassius: I [am] able than yourself To make conditions. Brutus: Go to! You are not, Cassius.' Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar, iv. 3. GO…Brewer's: Fenton
One who seeks to mend his fortune by marriage. He is the suitor of Anne Page. Her father objects to him, he says, because I am too great of birth; And that, my state being gall'd with my…Trending
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