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Brewer's: Music of the Spheres
Pythagoras was the first who suggested the notion so beautifully expressed by Shakespeare- There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdst But in his motion like an angel sings, Still…Brewer's: Pall
the covering thrown over a coffin, is the Latin pallium, a square piece of cloth used by the Romans to throw over their shoulders, or to cover them in bed; hence a coverlet. Pall, the…Brewer's: Pamper
according to Junius, is from the Latin pampinus, French pampre (vine-tendril). Hence Milton- Where any row Of fruit-trees, over-woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs, and needed…Brewer's: Jove
(Jupiter.) The Titans made war against Jove, and tried to dethrone him. Not stronger were of old the giant crew, Who sought to pull high Jove from regal state. Thomson: Castle of Indolence…Brewer's: Fontarabia
Now called Fuenterrabia (in Latin, Fons rapidus), near the Gulf of Gascony. Here, according to Mariana and other Spanish historians, Charlemagne and all his chivalry fell by the sword of…Brewer's: Gehenna
(Hebrew, g hard). The place of eternal torment. Strictly speaking, it means simply the Valley of Hinnom (Ge-Hinnom), where sacrifices to Moloch were offered and where refuso of all sorts…Brewer's: Glaucus
(of Botia). A fisherman who instructed Apollo in soothsaying. He jumped into the sea, and became a marine god. Milton alludes to him in his Comus (line 895): “[By] old soothsaying Glaucus…Brewer's: Gonfalon
or Gonfanon. An ensign or standard. A gonfalonier is a magistrate that has a gonfalon. (Italian, gonfalone; French, gonfalon; Saxon, guth-fana, war-flag.) Chaucer uses the word gonfanon;…Brewer's: Fixt
(The). That is, the Firmament. According to the Ptolemaic System, the earth is surrounded by nine spheres. These spheres are surrounded by the Primum Mobile (or First Moved); and the…Brewer's: Eloquent
The old man eloquent. Isocrates, the Greek orator. When he heard that Grecian liberty was extinguished by the battle of Chærone'a, he died of grief. That dishonest victory At Chæronea,…Trending
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