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Walt Whitman: Song of the Answerer, Part 2
Part 2The indications and tally of time, Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs, Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts, What always indicates the poet is the crowd…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Blight
Blight Give me truths; For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs and simples of the wood, Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain and agrimony, Blue-…Brewer's: Samosatian Philosopher
Lucian of Samosata. (Properly Samos'a-tan.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sampford GhostSamoor A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…2001 British Academy of Film and Television Awards
The 2001 BAFTA Awards, the British equivalent of our Oscar and Emmy awards (combined into one ceremony), were presented Feb. 25, 2001 in London. These are the film awards.…Brewer's: Abderitan Laughter
Abderi′tan Scoffing laughter, incessant laughter. So called from Abdera, the birthplace of Democritos, the laughing philosopher. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Æginetan Sculptures
Ægine′tan Sculptures Sculptures excavated by a company of Germans, Danes, and English (1811), in the little island of Ægina. They were purchased by Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and are…Brewer's: Hindustan
The country of the Hindûs. (Hind [Persic] and Sind [Sanskrit] means “black,” and tan = territory is very common, as Afghanistan, Beloochistan, Farsistan, Frangistan, Koordistan [the…Brewer's: Entangle
The Anglo-Saxon tan means a twig, and twigs smeared with birdlime were used for catching small birds, who were “en-tangled” or twigged. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Gulistan
[garden of roses ]. The famous recueil of moral sentences by Saadi, the poet of Shiraz, who died 1291. (Persian, ghul, a rose, and tan, a region.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Bait
Food to entice or allure, as bait for fish. Bait for travellers is a “feed” by way of refreshment taken en passant. (Anglo-Saxon, bætan , to bait or feed.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Trending
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