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Brewer's: Fiddle-de-dee!
An exclamation signifying what you say is nonsense or moonshine. Fiddle-de-dee is meant to express the sound of a fiddle-string vocalised. Hence “sound signifying nothing.” Source:…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Note on the Witch of Atlas, by Mrs. Shelley
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Witch of AtlasNote on the Witch of Atlas, by Mrs. Shelley We spent the summer of 1820 at the Baths of San Giuliano, four miles from Pisa. These baths were of…Brewer's: Fairy Rings
Circles of rank or withered grass, often seen in lawns, meadows, and grass-plots. Said to be produced by the fairies dancing on the spot. In sober truth, these rings are simply an agaric…William Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III
Act IIIScene IThe wood. Titania lying asleepEnter Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, and StarvelingBottomAre we all met?QuincePat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place for our…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Postcript
by Robert Burns Epistle To William SimsonOne Night As I Did WanderPostcript My memory's no worth a preen; I had amaist forgotten clean, Ye bade me write you what they mean…Brewer's: Man in the Moon
(The). Some say it is a man leaning on a fork, on which he is carrying a bundle of sticks picked up on a Sunday. The origin of this fable is from Num. xv. 32-36. Some add a dog also; thus…Brewer's: Mare's Nest
To find a mare's nest is to make what you suppose to be a great discovery, but which turns out to be all moonshine. Why dost thou laugh? What mare's nest hast thou found? Beaumont and…Brewer's: Fairy
of nursery mythology is the personification of Providence. The good ones are called fairies, elves, elle-folks, and fays; the evil ones are urchins, ouphes, ell-maids, and ell-women.…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…Coleridge: Part I
Part IIPart I An ancient Mariner meeteth three Gallants bidden to a wedding-feast, and detaineth one. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. "By thy long grey beard…Trending
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