In the 1913 collection of his work, 'The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar'. }} 'LONG TO'DS NIGHT Daih 's a moughty soothin' feelin' Hits a dahky man, 'Long to'ds More…
In the 1913 collection of his work, 'The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar' }} "HOWDY, HONEY, HOWDY!" Do' a-stan'in' on a jar, fiah a-shinin' thoo,Ol' folks More…
"I"I do not even scorn your lovers—They clasped an image of you, a cloud,Not the whole life of you that's mine. "II"I do not even pity my mistresses—Such a More…
Sometimes in bitter mood I mock myself: "Half ape, half ass, servant and slave, Where are your dreams gone now, Where your fierce pride? Whither goes your youth? More…
}} Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau:Mock on, Mock on: 'tis all in vain!You throw the sand against the wind,And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a GemReflected in the More…
('i.e.' "unwritten"), the name given to certain utterances ascribed, with some degree of certainty, to Jesus, which have been preserved in documents other than the Gospels, More…
known in religion as Sor (Sister) Maria de Jesus (1602-1665), was the daughter of Don Francisco Coronel and of his wife Catalina de Arana. She was born at Agreda, on the borders of More…
(1667-1719), German landscape painter, was born and died at Regensburg (Ratisbon). He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, Holland and France, and residing for a More…
(the Latinized form of the name ), (1490-1555), German scholar and man of science, known as "the father of mineralogy," was born at Glauchau in Saxony on the 24th of March 1490. More…
(A.D. 37-93), Roman statesman and general, father-in-law of the historian Tacitus, was born on the 13th of June A.D. 37 (according to others, 39) at Forum Julii (Fréjus) in Gallia More…
(1720-1774), German musician, was born at Dobitschen in Saxe-Altenburg, on the 4th of January 1720. While a student of law at Leipzig he studied music under Johann Sebastian Bach. In More…
(originally , then ), (1494-1566), German Protestant reformer, was born on the 20th of April 1494, at Eisleben, whence he is sometimes called 'Magister Islebius'. He studied at More…
(properly ) (1443-1485), Dutch scholar, was born at Baflo, near Groningen, in 1443. He was educated at Louvain, where he graduated as master of arts. After residing for some time in More…
, an ancient Greek festival, which was celebrated annually at Orchomenus in Boeotia and elsewhere, in honour of Dionysus Agrionius, by women and priests at night. The women, after More…
('c.' 10 B.C.–A.D. 44), king of Judea, the son of Aristobulus and Berenice, and grandson of Herod the Great, was born about 10 B.C. His original name was Marcus Julius Agrippa. Josephus More…
(27–100), son of the preceding, and like him originally Marcus Julius Agrippa, was born about A.D. 27, and received the tetrarchy of Chalcis and the oversight of the Temple on the death of More…
, the "younger" (A.D. 16-59), daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the elder, sister of Caligula and mother of Nero, was born at Oppidum Ubiorum on the Rhine, afterwards named in More…
, an annual festival held at Agrae near Athens, in honour of Artemis Agrotera, in fulfilment of a vow made by the city, before the battle of Marathon, to offer in sacrifice a number of More…
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