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Brewer's: Alms-house
A house where paupers are supported at the public expense; a poor-house. Also a house set apart for the aged poor free of rent. “Only, alas! the poor who had neither friends nor attendants…Significant Videos of 1996–1997
Austin Powers: International Man of MysteryBasquiatBastard out of CarolinaBeautiful ThingBeavis and Butt-head Do AmericaBig NightBreaking the WavesCitizen RuthThe CrucibleDead ManDrunksEmmaThe…1995–1996 Obie Awards
Best PlayAdrienne Kennedy, June and Jean in Concert and Sleep Deprivation ChamberPlaywritingAin Gordon, Wally's GhostDonald Margulies, The Model ApartmentSuzan-Lori Parks, VenusDoug Wright,…Brewer's: Ryot
A tenant in India who pays a usufruct for his occupation. The Scripture parable of the husbandmen refers to such a tenure; the lord sent for his rent, which was not money but iruits, and…Brewer's: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Q
E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Q Q.E.D Q.E.F Q.P Q.S Q.V Quack Quacks Quad Quadra Quadragesima Sunday…The Magna Carta
JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Revolt of Islam, Canto 7
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Canto 6 Canto 8 Canto 7 So we sate joyous as the morning ray Which fed upon the wrecks of night and storm Now lingering on the winds; light airs did play Among the…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound Scene 3.2:
by Percy Bysshe Shelley SCENE 3.1: SCENE 3.3: SCENE 3.2: THE MOUTH OF A GREAT RIVER IN THE ISLAND ATLANTIS. OCEAN IS DISCOVERED RECLINING NEAR THE SHORE; APOLLO STANDS BESIDE HIM. OCEAN…Poems: Gerontion
by T. S. Eliot Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleis...Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry…Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Constantia, Singing
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Marianne's DreamTo ConstantiaTo Constantia, Singing Published by Mrs. Shelley in "Posthumous Poems", 1824. Amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian is a…