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"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845. [1] The poem, one of the volume's "dramatic romances", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate"—although the nature of that good news ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) ... den- ten each: Latin: dēnī ...
The Boekentoren. The Boekentoren (Dutch for Book Tower) is a famous building located in Ghent, Belgium, designed by the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde.It is part of the Ghent University Library and currently houses 3 million books.
A dene or dean (Old English: denu) used to be a common name for a valley, in which sense it is frequently found as a component of British place-names, such as Rottingdean and Ovingdean in England [1] and Deanston and Hassendean in Scotland. [2] It is a cognate of den, from the Old English denn, a cave or "lurking place". [2]
The earliest surviving manuscripts of the Septuagint (abbreviated as LXX meaning 70), an ancient (first centuries BCE) translation of the ancient Hebrew Torah into Koine Greek, include three 2nd century BCE fragments from the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy (Rahlfs nos. 801, 819, and 957) and five 1st century BCE fragments of Genesis, Exodus ...
A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew Author B. E. Language English Subject Cant and slang Genre Dictionary Publisher W. Hawes Publication date Circa 1698 Publication place England A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew is a dictionary of English cant and slang by a compiler known only by the initials B. E., first published in London ...
Te lucis in a Spanish manuscript circa 1625, with pro tua clementia (instead of solita clementia) due to Urban VIII's classicizing revisions. The original Latin is used in post-Vatican II texts. Te lucis ante terminum ('To Thee before the close of day') is an old Latin hymn in long metre. It is the hymn at Compline in the Roman Breviary.
The Flanders Sports Arena (Dutch: Topsporthal Vlaanderen) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Ghent, Belgium.Opened in 2000, the Flanders Sports Arena can hold up to 5,000 people in sporting events.