Word: spensers
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...Edmund Spenser...
...ridiculously transparent pseudonym--Exeter--which it first received from a cousin of mine, a famous writer from that state who never used one word if he knew ten, and claimed in his brash youth to have registered in hotels in the area under names like "Benny Johnson," "Eddie Spenser" or "Al Tennyson." (He also described in one of his books "the most notorious whore-house in the state, located on a corner in my home-town where the public library now stands. I guess things have changed that much...
...destructive. Nor could it seek a better symbol of equality-or superiority-than the woman who gave her name to England's greatest age. With a knowledge of seven languages and with all the academic disciplines of her time, Elizabeth was the perfect Renaissance prince, an inspiration to Spenser, Marlowe and Shakespeare. Beyond that, she is a supremely modern figure in her fate and fortune. She was afflicted with many of today's doubts and uncertainties as well -neither of which the superficial Mary knew-but she more than surmounted them all. In 100 years, Mary once again...
...determined once and for all to bring Ireland and its stubborn Catholics to heel. English colonies were "planted" on Irish soil, often with great bloodshed; sometimes peasants were stripped naked and thrown into bogs for the amusement of the invaders. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Poet Edmund Spenser witnessed the horrors and described the wretched survivors: "Out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
...have decreed the death penalty for all who use like as a conjunction [Aug. 22], a hangman's noose would have been the appropriate end for Elyot, Shakespeare, Smollett, Southey, Newman, Washington Irving, Darwin and William Morris (of Morris chair fame, not the dictionary's editor). Edmund Spenser should perhaps have been flogged for anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb. Since advise in the sense of "notify" is business and Army English, Willa Gather and Sir Richard Steele must have been members of the industrial-military complex. And since erratas reflects ignorance of Latin...