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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
ALISTAIR
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
anotherdeterminerUS /əˈnʌðər/
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
artauxiliary verbUS /ɑːrt/
an old form of “are”, used with “thou”
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
builders
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
Burns
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
burthened
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
Byron
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
called
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
came
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
CASEMENTS
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
chained
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
Channel
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
coast
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
consciencenounUS /ˈkɑːnʃəns/
the inner sense of right and wrong
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
crime
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
crowned
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From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
deck
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
dying
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
England
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
exile
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
figure
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
Gallery
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From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
gauger
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
gazed
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From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
generosity
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
gold
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From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
hangs
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From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
hard-heartedness
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From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
heart
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
HisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
image
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
InprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
indignant
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
just
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
last
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
LORD
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
made
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
MAGIC
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
Mammon
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
many
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
masterpiece
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From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
melancholy
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
melt
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
midst
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
Minister
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
mood
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
Napoleon
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
Nelson
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
night
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
ocean
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
often
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From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
painter
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
painting
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From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
Perceval
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
prayer
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
Prime
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
prophets
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
Raj
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
rejected
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
represents
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From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
robed
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From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
rock
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
scarlet
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From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
shop-keeper's
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
sin
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
sitting
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From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
steamer
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
stones
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
stoodverbUS /stʊd/
Maintained an upright posture.
From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
swelled
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
swindlers
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
symbolic
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From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
Tate
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From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
then
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
throne
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From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
watched
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From this reading MAGIC CASEMENTS LORD ALISTAIR stood on the deck of a Channel steamer and watched the coast of England melt into the night.
Watts
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From this reading In the Tate Gallery hangs a painting which he had often gazed upon, a symbolic masterpiece of Watts’.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
Whistler
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From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
whompronounUS /huːm/
the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading His mood was burthened with that indignant melancholy which swelled the heart of Byron and of Whistler, and many another exile whom the builders of the Raj have rejected from their midst.
world
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From this reading It represents hard-heartedness sitting crowned with gold and robed in scarlet on the throne of the world.
worships
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From this reading The painter has called his figure “Mammon”; it came before Alistair just then as the image of England--the England that stones her prophets and worships her swindlers; the England that made Burns a gauger and one Perceval Prime Minister; that chained the dying Napoleon on an ocean rock, and rejected the last prayer of Nelson; England, with her shop-keeper’s conscience, where art is a sin and generosity a crime.
