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81tag — I. noun Etymology: Middle English tagge; akin to Middle Low German tagge, tacke twig, spike Date: 14th century 1. a loose hanging piece of cloth ; tatter 2. a metal or plastic binding on an end of a shoelace 3. a piece of hanging or attached… …
82sententiously — adverb see sententious …
83sententiousness — noun see sententious …
84Agatharchides — (Ἀγαθαρχίδης or Agatharchus Ἀγάθαρχος) of Cnidus, was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC).LifeHe is believed to have been born at Cnidus; this leading to his appellation. As Stanley M. Burstein notes, the evidence for… …
85Classical Latin — Latinitas Latin inscription in the Colosseum …
86Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich — ( de. Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst [German title|Fürst] von Metternich Winneburg zu Beilstein) (May 15, 1773 – June 11, 1859) was a German Austrian politician and statesman and was one of the most important diplomats of his era. He was a… …
87Musophilus — is a long poem by Samuel Daniel, first published in 1599. Among Daniel s most characteristic works, it is a dialogue between a courtier and a man of letters, and is a general defence of learning, and in particular of poetic learning as an… …
88Johann Adolph Hasse — (baptised in Bergedorf, near Hamburg, on 25 March 1699 ndash; died in Venice on 16 December 1783) was an 18th century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic… …
89The Plain Dealer (play) — The Plain Dealer is a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley, first performed on 11 December 1676. The play is based on Molière s Le Misanthrope , and is generally considered Wycherley s finest work along with The Country Wife . The Play was… …
90If— — is a poem written in 1895 by Rudyard Kipling and first published in the Brother Square Toes chapter of Rewards and Fairies , Kipling s 1910 collection of short stories and poems. Like William Ernest Henley s Invictus , it is a memorable evocation …
