"King Pandion, he is dead; All thy friends are lapp'd in lead." —Author:Richard Barnfield|BARNFIELD (sometimes attributed to Author:William Shakespeare|SHAKESPEARE). DREAMERS, More…
"Mary, Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?With silver bells and cockle-shellsAnd pretty maids all in a row!"—Mother Goose. MARY, Mistress Mary,How does your garden More…
GALAHADS, Galahads, Percivals, gallop!Bayards, to the saddle!—the clangorous trumpets,Hoarse with their ecstasy, call to the mellay.Paladins, Paladins, Rolands flame-hearted,Olivers, More…
CONQUERORS leonine, lordly,Princes and vaunting kings,Ye are drunk with the sound of your braggarttrumps—But lo! ye are little things! Earth . . . it is charnel with monarchs!And the More…
"Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride!They had no poet and they died."—Author:Alexander Pope|POPE. By Tigris, or the streams of Ind,Ere Colchis rose, or Babylon,Forgotten More…
TIME steals from Love all but Love's wings;And how should aught but evil things,Or any good but death, befallHim that is thrall unto Time's thrall,Slave to the lesser of these Kings? O More…
In the interval between the fall of France in 1940, and the Pearl Harbor, the United States watched with increasing apprehension the flux of Japanese military power into Indochina. At More…
Throughout the year 1944, the President held to his views, and consistent with them, proscribed U.S. aid to resistance groups-including French groups-in Indochina. But the war in the Asian More…
They recruited William Evans From the ploughtail and the spade; Ten years' service in the Devons Left him smart as they are made. Thirty or a trifle older, Rather over six foot high, Trim More…
"AFFRAY" in law, the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror '(al' effroi)' of the lieges. The offence is a misdemeanour at English common law, punishable by fine More…
"Agathyrsi", a people of Thracian origin, who in the earliest historical times o ccupied the plain of the Maris (Maros), in the region now known as Transylvania. Thyrsi is supposed to be More…
"," or "", a former province of France. In ancient Gaul it was the country of the Nitiobroges with 'Aginnum' for its capital, and in the 4th century it was the 'Civitas Agennensium' which More…
"" (from Lat. 'agere', to act), a name applied generally to any person who acts for another. It has probably been adopted from France, as its function in modern civil law was otherwise More…
"", the term given to a representative in England of one of the self-governing British colonies. Agents-general may be said to hold a position mid-way between agents of provinces and More…
"", a Rhodian sculptor, whose title to fame is that he is mentioned by Pliny ('Nat. Hist.' xxxvi. 37) as author (with Polydorus and Athenodorus) of the group of the Laocoon. Inscriptions More…
"", king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid family, was the son of Archidamus II. and Eupolia, and younger step-brother of Agis II., whom he succeeded about 401 B.C. Agis had, indeed, a son More…
(from the Lat. 'agglomerare', to form into a ball, 'glomus', 'glomeris'), a term used in botany, meaning crowded in a close cluster or head, and, in geology, applied to the accumulations More…
(Lat. 'ad', and 'gluten', 'glutinare', literally to fasten together with glue), a term used technically in philology for the method of word-formation by which two significant words or More…
(from the Lat. 'ad', to, 'gregare', to collect together), in physics, a collective term for the forms or states in which matter exists. Three primary "states of aggregation" are More…
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