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Mac Flecknoe (full title: Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet, T.S. [1]) is a verse mock-heroic satire written by John Dryden. It is a direct attack on Thomas Shadwell, another prominent poet of the time. It opens with the lines: Bust of Mac Flecknoe, from an 18th-century edition of Dryden's poems
Modern English free translation by Raymond Oliver [3] 1. Under the lime tree On the heather, Where we had shared a place of rest, Still you may find there, Lovely together, Flowers crushed and grass down-pressed. Beside the forest in the vale, Tándaradéi,* Sweetly sang the nightingale. 2. I came to meet him At the green: There was my truelove ...
Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh (IPA: [ˈcaɾˠ(ə)wəl̪ˠ oː ˈd̪ˠaːlˠiː]; fl. 1630), sometimes spelt in English as Carroll Oge O'Daly, [1] [2] was a 17th-century Irish language poet and harpist, who composed the song "Eileanóir a Rún".
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter M.
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair was born around 1698, into both the Scottish nobility and Clan MacDonald of Clanranald.Through his great-grandmother Màiri, daughter of Angus MacDonald of Islay, he claimed descent from Scottish Kings Robert the Bruce and Robert II, the first monarch of the House of Stuart, [25] as well as, like the rest of Clan Donald, from Somerled.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
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type of pasta (short form of macaroni) – as in 'mac and cheese' Mackintosh, Macintosh, or McIntosh raincoat (Mackintosh, often shortened to mac) Macintosh, brand of Apple Inc. computers (often shortened to Mac) (wrongly) McIntosh Red, a type of apple mail (used in Royal Mail, name of the British postal system; cf. postal)