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Dryden: Encyclopedia - Absalom

Absalom or Avshalom (אַבְשָׁלוֹם "Father/Leader of/is peace", Standard Hebrew Avšalom, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAḇšālôm), in the Bible, is the third son of David, king of Israel. He was deemed the handsomest man in the kingdom. His sister Tamar had been raped by David's eldest son, Amnon, who was in love with her. Absalom, after waiting two years, revenged by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons (2 Samuel 13): "18. And she had ...

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Dryden: Encyclopedia - Anagram

An anagram (Greek ana- = "back" or "again", and graphein = "to write") is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. Anagrams are often expressed in the form of an equation, with the equals symbol (=) separating the original subject and the resulting anagram. ‘Earth = heart’ is an example of a simple anagram expressed so. In a more advanced, sophisticated form of anagramming, the aim is to ‘discover’ a result ...

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Anagram - Political

Anagram - Celebrities and other persons

Anagram - Definitional

Anagram - Situational

Anagram - Controversial

Anagram - Literary

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Dryden: Encyclopedia - A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language, one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language, was prepared by Samuel Johnson and published on April 15, 1755. The dictionary responded to a widely felt need for stability in the language. Calls and proposals for a new dictionary had been made for decades before a group of London booksellers (including Robert Dodsley and Thomas Longman) contracted Johnson in June, 1746 to prepare the work for the sum of £1575. Though he expected to be finished in three yea ...

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A Dictionary of the English Language - Johnson's preparation

A Dictionary of the English Language - Johnson's version

Dryden: Encyclopedia - Charles Sackville 6th Earl of Dorset

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (24 January 1638- 29 January 1706) was an English poet and courtier, son of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (1622-1677). His mother was Frances Cranfield, sister and heiress of Lionel, 3rd Earl of Middlesex, to whose estates and title he succeeded in 1674, being created Baron Cranfield and 4th Earl of Middlesex in 1675. He succeeded to his father's estates and title in August 1677. He was educated privately, and spent some time abroad with a private tutor, returning to England ...

Dryden: Encyclopedia - Alexandrine

An alexandrine is a line of poetic meter. Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods and much less common in English poetry, which more frequently uses iambic pentameter or 5-foot verse. In syllabic verse, such as that used in French literature, an alexandrine is a line of twelve syllables, often with a caesura between the sixth and seventh sy ...

Dryden: Encyclopedia - Charles Sedley

Sir Charles Sedley (c. 1639 - August 20, 1701), English wit and dramatist, was the son of Sir John Sedley of Aylesford in Kent. For a modern edition of Sedley's comedies, see: Holger Hanowell, "Sir Charles Sedley's 'The Mulberry-Garden' (1668) and 'Bellamira: or, The Mistress' (1687). An Old-Spelling Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Commentary" (Peter Lang: Frankfurt a. M. 2001). He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, but left without taking a degree. Sedley is famous as a patron of literature in the Resto ...

Dryden: Encyclopedia - Antoine François Prévost

By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by category Novelists - Playwrights Poets - Essayists Short Story Writers Antoine François Prévost (Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles) (April 1, 1697 - December 23, 1763), usually known simpl ...

Dryden: Encyclopedia - Couplet

A couplet is a pair of lines of verse that form a unit. Most couplets rhyme aa, but this is not a requirement. Poetry in rhyming couplets is one of the simplest rhyme schemes: aa bb cc dd ee ff... etc. Example: I THINK that I shall never see a A poem as lovely as a tree. a A tree whose hungry mouth is prest b Against th ...

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Dryden: Encyclopedia II - Parallel Lives - Biographies

Plutarch structured his Lives by alternating lives of famous Greeks ("Grecians") with those of famous Romans. After such a set of two (sometimes four) lives he generally writes out a comparison of the preceding biographies. In the table below, besides links to the wikipedia articles on the historic figures, there are also links to several on-line versions of Plutarch's Lives[1]; see also "Oth ...

Dryden: Encyclopedia II - Lee County Virginia - Demographics

As of the census2 of 2000, there are 23,589 people, 9,706 households, and 6,852 families residing in the county. The population density is 21/km² (54/mi²). There are 11,086 housing units at an average density of 10/km² (25/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 98.44% White, 0.44% Black or African American, 0.22% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.08% from other races, and 0.64% from two or more races. 0.51% o ...

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