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Albuquerque

(Encyclopedia) Albuquerque Albuquerque ălˈbəkûrˌkē [key], city (2020 pop. 564,559), seat of Bernalillo co., W central N.Mex., on the upper Rio Grande; inc. 1890. The…

Pinkie

(Encyclopedia) Pinkie, battlefield, E of Edinburgh, Scotland. There the English under Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, defeated a larger Scottish force on Sept. 10, 1547. Somerset's invasion of…

Huntingtower

(Encyclopedia) Huntingtower or Ruthven CastleHuntingtowerrĭvˈən [key], Perth and Kinross, E central Scotland, near Perth. James VI (later James I of England) was held in the castle by the earl of…

John Donne: Expostulation VI. Metuit

ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, I find in thy book that fear is a stifling spirit, a spirit of suffocation; that “Ishbosheth could not speak, nor reply in his own defence to Abner,…

John Donne: Prayer VI. Metuit

PrayerJohn Donne O MOST mighty God, and merciful God, the God of all true sorrow, and true joy too, of all fear, and of all hope too, as thou hast given me a repentance, not to be repented of…

Lewis Carroll: CANTO VI—Dyscomfyture

CANTO VI—DyscomfytureAs one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow every moment less sublime, And votes the thing a bore:Yet, having once…

The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio: Canto VI

Purgatorio 39 - Purgatorio: Canto V Purgatorio: Canto VII - 41 Purgatorio: Canto VI Whene'er is broken up the game of Zara, He who has lost remains behind despondent, The throws…

The Divine Comedy: Inferno: Canto VI

Inferno: Canto VInferno: Canto VIIInferno: Canto VI At the return of consciousness, that closed Before the pity of those two relations, Which utterly with sadness had confused me,…