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Stanza one begins with the speaker in bed with his lover, complaining about sun's beaming rays. Donne uses expressions such as, "Busy old fool" (line 1) and "Saucy Pedantic Wretch" [perfectionist] [4] (line 5) to describe his annoyance with it. The speaker of the poem questions the sun's motives and yearns for the sun to go away so that he and ...
Pedantry is the adjective form of the 1580s English word pedant, which meant a male schoolteacher at the time. [3] The word pedant originated from the French word for "schoolmaster," pédant, in the 1560s, or from the Italian word for "teacher, schoolmaster," pedante.
It was an important item for many scholars, which soon became symbolic of writers in general. Later, it became a byword for fussy or pedantic writers. [1] The phrase "inkhorn term" is found as early as 1553. [2] And ere that we will suffer such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal, To be disgracèd by an inkhorn mate
What one nurse learned about humanity amidst the Ebola epidemic
The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce, consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions.. The lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspap
Elon Musk became rich and famous as an entrepreneur, but he’s quickly making a new name for himself as one of the most singular and polarizing figures of any presidential administration.
Once a PLU is assigned, retailers in participating countries can use it for consistent labeling — meaning, yes, that same code will be used on a common banana in the U.S.,
to see with difficulty; to understand the meaning of to kiss (see Making out) to succeed or profit ("She made out well on that deal.") * marinara sauce: sauce containing seafood, usu. in a tomato base red sauce containing tomatoes and herbs, often with meat but never with seafood (UK: napolitana sauce) marquee