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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. " Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears " is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it is one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works. [ 1]
OCLC. 1094805. Dewey Decimal. [398.2] E. LC Class. PZ8.1.A213 Wh. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale is a 1975 children's picture book by Verna Aardema and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Published in hardcover by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House, it is told in the form of a cumulative ...
May we grow in Him through all things: Motto of Cheverus High School. crescat scientia vita excolatur: let knowledge grow, let life be enriched: Motto of the University of Chicago. Often rendered in English as "Let knowledge grow from more to more, And so be human life enriched," so as to achieve an iambic meter. crescente luce: Light ever ...
Ode to a Nightingale. " Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the ...
The origin of the English word cat, Old English catt, is thought to be the Late Latin word cattus, which was first used at the beginning of the 6th century. [4] The Late Latin word may be derived from an unidentified African language. [5] The Nubian word kaddîska 'wildcat' and Nobiin kadīs are possible sources or cognates. [6]
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. [1] It includes both print and digital writing. [2] In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed.
Ushanka. An ushanka ( Russian: ушанка, Russian pronunciation: [ʊˈʂankə], from уши, 'ears' ), also called an ushanka- hat (Russian: шапка-ушанка, romanized: shapka-ushanka, [ˈʂapkə ʊˈʂankə] ), is a Russian fur hat with ear-covering flaps that can be tied up on the crown of the cap, or fastened at the chin to ...
Beowulf is an epic Old English poem, written in the strict metre of alliterative verse.Each line consists of two half-lines, separated by a caesura; each half-line contains two stresses but a variable number of syllables.