Download or read book Grand Allusions written by Elizabeth Webber and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of 500 current terms and expressions such as lounge lizard and the "Checkers" speech.
Download or read book Grand Illusion written by Theresa A. Amato and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative critique of how two-party campaigns are compromising democracy identifies key flaws in the electoral process, ballot access laws, partisan administration, and other systems, in a report that argues for federal standards that lift barriers against third-party and independent candidates.
Download or read book Dictionary of Historical Allusions written by Thomas Benfield Harbottle and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Historical Allusions written by Thomas Benfield Harbottle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dictionary of Historical Allusions" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle is an educational historical reference text. From A to Z, the book lays out treaties, documents, terms, and more that helped define history around Europe. At the time it was released, and to this day, it was an essential text used by students who wished to avoid confusion when it came to studying history and all of its complexities.
Download or read book The Reader s Handbook of Allusions References Plots and Stories with Two Appendices written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glossary Or Collection of Words Phrases Names and Allusions to Customs Proverbs Etc which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration in the Works of English Authors Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporarie written by Robert Nares and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Download or read book The Reader s Handbook of Allusions References Plots and Stories written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by Philadelphia, Pa. : J.B. Lippincott. This book was released on 1889 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glossary Or Collection of Words Phrases Names and Allusions to Customs Proverbs which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration in the Works of English Authors New Ed with Additions by James O Halliwell and Thomas Wright written by Robert Nares and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glossary of Words Phrases Names and Allusions in the Works of English Authors Particularly of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries written by Robert Nares and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A glossary or collection of words phrases names and allusions to customs proverbs etc which have been thought to require illustration in the works of English authors particularly of Shakespeare and his contemporaries written by Robert Nares and published by London Reeves and Turner 1859.. This book was released on 1859 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glossary Or Collection of Words Phrases Names and Allusions to Customs Proverbs Etc which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration in the Words of English Authors Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporaries written by Robert Nares and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glossary Or Collection of Words Phrases Names and Allusions to Customs Proverbs Etc Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporaries written by Robert Nares and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Authorisms written by Paul Dickson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining, illuminating lexicography of words coined by authors throughout the ages, published on the “sesquiquadricentennial” (450th anniversary) of Shakespeare's birth. William Shakespeare's written vocabulary consisted of 17,245 words, including hundreds that were coined or popularized by him. Some of the words never went further than their appearance in his plays, but others-like bedazzled, hurry, critical, and anchovy-are essential parts of our standard vocabulary today. Many other famous and lesser-known writers have contributed to the popular lexicon. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Sir Walter Scott ranks second to Shakespeare in first uses of words and giving a new and distinct meaning to already existing words (Free Lances for freelancers). John Milton minted such terms as earthshaking, lovelorn, by hook or crook, and all Hell broke loose, and was responsible for introducing some 630 words. Gifted lexicographer Paul Dickson deftly sorts through neologisms by Chaucer (a ha), Jane Austen (base ball), Louisa May Alcott (co-ed), Mark Twain (hard-boiled), Kurt Vonnegut (granfalloon), John le Carrè (mole), William Gibson (cyberspace), and many others. Presenting stories behind each word and phrase, Dickson enriches our appreciation of the English language in a book as entertaining as it is enlightening.
Download or read book The Grand Miracle written by C. S. Lewis and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1986-01-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Captivating reading that builds the faith while it fills the mind with greatness.”—Sherwood Wirt, former editor, DECISION Magazine One of this century's greatest writers of fact, fiction, and fantasy explores, in utterly beautiful terms, questions of faith in the modern world: • On the experience of miracles • On silence and religious belief • On the assumed conflict between work and prayer • On the error of trying to lead “a good life” without Christ • On the necessity of dogma to religion • On the dangers of national repentance • On the commercialization of Christmas . . . and more “The searching mind and the poetic spirit of C.S. Lewis are readily evident in this collection of essays edited by his one-time secretary, Walter Hopper. Here the reader finds the tough-mind polemicist relishing the debate; here too the kindly teacher explaining a complex abstraction by means of clarifying analogies; here the public speaker addressing his varied audience with all the humility and grace of a man who knows how much more remains to be unknown.”—The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Validity in the Identification and Interpretation of Literary Allusions in the Hebrew Bible written by David R. Klingler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the present state of affairs in the area of intertextuality, along with the multitude of competing interpretations of Scripture, Validity in the Identification and Interpretation of a Literary Allusion in the Bible seeks to bring a measure of reason and methodological control back into the discussion. With that in mind, this work is heavily philosophical yet also deeply practical. By defining what literary allusions are and how they work, David Klingler seeks to provide some interpretive criteria for assessing the various claims about literary allusions in the Bible.
Download or read book Contemporary Architects written by Muriel Emanuel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Words from the White House written by Paul Dickson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, eminently readable volume compiles words and phrases coined or popularized by American presidents. Alphabetical listings feature a definition and (usually) a brief discussion that places them in historical context.