Chapter 1 of Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Farewell, old Demades. DEMADES Damon, farewell. How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel! [Footnote C: Our?] AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
Chapter 1 of Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 48/80 · 5 reading units · Lines 236–240
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the friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC)
From this reading “DEMADES Damon, farewell.”
an old form of “does”
From this reading “How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!”
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
From this reading “AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?”
a printed note placed below the text on a printed page
From this reading “[Footnote C: Our?]”
with the head foremost
From this reading “How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!”
for this reason
From this reading “AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?”
“Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
From this reading “How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!”
plural of “wind” — air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
From this reading “AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?”
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a proposal for an appropriate course of action
From this reading How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
From this reading [Footnote C: Our?]
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
the friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC)
From this reading DEMADES Damon, farewell.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Farewell, old Demades.
an old form of “does”
From this reading How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
From this reading Farewell, old Demades.
a printed note placed below the text on a printed page
From this reading [Footnote C: Our?]
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!
with the head foremost
From this reading How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!
for this reason
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading Farewell, old Demades.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading [Footnote C: Our?]
“Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
From this reading How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
plural of “wind” — air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
a young person (especially a young man or boy)
From this reading How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel!
Chapter 1 of Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote [Editor] Crow holds 404 sentences, grouped into 81 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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