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2009 People in the News See also 2008 People in the News 2007 People in the News 2006 People in the News 2005 People in the News 2004 People…Brewer's: Addison of the North
Ad′dison i.e., Henry Mackenzie, the author of the Man of Feeling (1745–1831). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AddixitAdays A B C D E F G H I J K L…Brewer's: La Roche
(1 syl.). A Protestant clergyman, whose story is told in The Mirror, by Henry Mackenzie. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LabadistsLa Muette de Portici A B…2000 Gramophone Awards
The 2000 Gramophone Awards were published in the December 2000 issue of the magazine.Orchestral (Record of the Year)Mahler, Symphony No 10 in F sharp, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon…Brewer's: Man of Feeling
The title of a novel by Henry Mackenzie. His “man of feeling” is named Harley- a sensitive, bashful, kind-hearted, sentimental hero. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Man of the World
(A). One “knowing” in world-craft; no greenhorn. Charles Macklin brought out a comedy (1704), and Henry Mackenzie a novel (1773) with the same title. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Cool Hundred
(A) or Cool Thousand (or any other sum) means entire, or the whole of 100. Cool, in this case, means not influenced by hot-headed enthusiasm or exaggeration. “I lost a cool hundred myself…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher
by Robert Burns Epigram To Miss Ainslie In ChurchNote To Mr. Renton Of LamertonBurlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher Auld chuckie Reekie's[1] sair distrest…Brewer's: Gouk
or Gowk. In the Teutonic the word gauch means fool; whence the Anglo-Saxon geac, a cuckoo, and the Scotch goke or gouk. Hunting the gowk [fool], is making one an April fool. (See April.)…Brewer's: Delia
of Pope's line, “Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage,” was Lady Deloraine, who married W. Windam of Carsham, and died 1744. The person said to have been poisoned was Miss Mackenzie…Trending
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