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John Keats: Fancy
by John Keats Ode to PsycheBards of passion and of mirthFancy Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when rain…Coleridge: Love
Kubla KhanFrance: an OdeLove All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my…Brewer's: Language
The primeval language. Psammetichos, an Egyptian king, entrusted two new-born infants to a shepherd, with strict charge that they were never to hear any one utter a word. These children…Selected Essays in Black History: The Goophered Grapevine
My Escape from Slavery Po' Sandy The Goophered Grapevine by Charles W. Chesnutt About ten years ago my wife was in poor health, and our family doctor, in whose skill and honesty I…Mahfouz, Naguib
(Encyclopedia) Mahfouz, NaguibMahfouz, Naguibnəgēbˈ mäkhf&oomacr;sˈ [key], 1911–2006, Egyptian novelist and short-story writer, b. Cairo. After his graduation (1934) from Cairo Univ., he worked…Christmas
(Encyclopedia) Christmas [Christ's Mass], in the Christian calendar, feast of the nativity of Jesus, celebrated in Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches on Dec. 25. In liturgical importance it ranks…Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Tale of Society as It Is: from Facts, 1811
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To Mary Who Died in this OpinionTo the Republicans of North AmericaA Tale of Society as It Is: from Facts, 1811 Published (from Esdaile manuscript with title as…Brewer's: Marks in Grammar and Printing
Printers' marks on the first page of a sheet are called Signatures. (See Letters At Foot Of Page.) Serifs are the strokes which finish off Roman letters, top and bottom. A, B, C, are “…Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities on Holidays, 2003
Holiday 2002Total traffic fatalitiesTotal fatalities alcohol-relatedPercent fatalities alcohol-relatedTime period monitoredNew Year's Eve (2002)1235746.3%12/31/02New Year's Day1509865.31/1/03New Year…John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book V
Book V Now Morn her rosie steps in th' Eastern Clime Advancing, sow'd the Earth with Orient Pearle, When ADAM wak't, so customd, for his sleep Was Aerie light, from pure digestion bred, And…