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Canning, Dundas, etc. "Weathercock" Windham, in the Ministry of "All the
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Links to this post poems about books someone brought up this subject on the bibliophile list this morning and I forgot I hadn't posted something from "the Weathercock Crows" by L.B. Romaine in a while.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 poems about books someone brought up this subject on the bibliophile list this morning and I forgot I hadn't posted something from "the Weathercock Crows" by L.B. Romaine in a while.
poems about books 2008
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I have thus given historic authorities, sufficient to show the portentous mysteries connected with the House of the Weathercock, and its talismanic horseman.
The Alhambra 2002
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I have thus given historic authorities, sufficient to show the portentous mysteries connected with the House of the Weathercock, and its talismanic horseman.
The Alhambra 2002
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I understand that the next volume in this series will be entitled "The Eagles and the Weathercock".
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Not long after this period, Field, who by his _Woman is a Weathercock_ (1612) and his _Amends for Ladies_
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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One passage must have been particularly famous, for we find it parodied most elaborately by Field, as late as 1606, in his _A Woman is a Weathercock_ [63].
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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"Weathercock can without the wind," suggested Jo, as he paused for a simile.
Little Women 1921
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ATTRIBUTION: Field ( 1641): A Womans a Weathercock.
Quotations 1919
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