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[A]nd as he happened to bear the identical name of the old hero of Harper's Ferry, he became at once the butt of his comrades. If he made his appearance a few minutes late among the working squad, or was a little tardy in falling into the company line, he was sure to be greeted with such expressions as "Come, old fellow, you ought to be at it ...
The proposition that the lyrics originate in 1287 [2] is based on a manuscript held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. A poem starting with the words Subscribere proposui ("I have suggested signing (it)") has two verses that closely resemble the later Gaudeamus igitur verses, although neither the first verse nor the actual words ...
"John Barleycorn" is an English and Scottish folk song. [1] The song's protagonist is John Barleycorn, a personification of barley and of the alcoholic beverages made from it: beer and whisky . In the song, he suffers indignities, attacks, and death that correspond to the various stages of barley cultivation, such as reaping and malting .
And death shall have no dominion" is a poem written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953). The title comes from St. Paul 's epistle to the Romans (6:9): "Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no dominion over him."
The phrase "green and pleasant land" has become a common term for an identifiably English landscape or society. It appears as a headline, title or sub-title in numerous articles and books. Sometimes it refers, whether with appreciation, nostalgia or critical analysis, to idyllic or enigmatic aspects of the English countryside. [24]
The lyrics and meter are remarkably similar to the first six stanzas of the Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten [2] written around 1500 BC, which celebrates the rising sun. The lyrics include Biblical references, such as the drowning of Pharaoh and his people in the Red Sea and the defeat of Goliath. Some of the lyrics are said to have been ...
According to Fontana, Shakespeare intended the second meaning, personifying and assigning gender to time, making the difference between the young man sonnets and the dark lady sonnets all the more obvious. Shakespeare had used the word "slut" nearly a year before he wrote sonnet 55 when he wrote Timon of Athens. In the play, Timon associates ...
The song appears in Stanley Kubrick's 1972 film A Clockwork Orange in an ironic way while the main character is on his way to a Pavlov training session; said session involves the use of torture that makes Alex unable of doing the violent acts he used to do because they reminded him of the pain he saw in the sex-and-violence-heavy films he watched during the program.