beadsman


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a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another

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The Christian basis of this contrast between asceticism and sensuousness also has its origins in Keats, for 'The Eve of St Agnes' begins and ends with the figure of the beadsman. This contrast between crypt and bedroom was further reinforced by Scott, for it is one of the ironies of history that, some months after the composition of 'The Eve of St Agnes', Ivanhoe reached the bookshops, and duplicated the inspiration of a 'Cockney' poet despised by Scott's henchmen at Blackwood's.
George Eliot's 'Glue Test' Language, law, and legitimacy in Silas Marner
The chilly owl, the limping hare, the numb Beadsman, the
Keats
In that same letter Wallace explained that Lenore Sr., Lenore Beadsman's great-grandmother, "is based loosely, physically, on Alice Ambrose, a very old former Smith professor who lived near me and had been one of the students whose notes were comprised by Witt's Blue and Brown books." Lenore Sr.
attempts to invigorate her life with use and therefore meaning by proposing to Stonecipher Beadsman III, Lenore Jr.'s dad and chief of the Stonecipheco baby food company, some research into a drug that speeds development of (what else?) language skills and comprehension in kids.
Termite art, or Wallace's Wittgenstein
The first character we meet is the beadsman, an old holy man praying in the cold chapel.
John Keats (1795-1821)
The Beadsman, an aged supplicant who at the beginning of the poem is telling his rosary with cold-numbed fingers in the castle chapel.
The Eve of St. Agnes
Owner-breeder Sir Joseph Hawley counts his lucky stars that no-one wanted to buy his horses when he put them up for sale last year after he wins the Derby with his 10-1 chance Beadsman. Hawley clears about pounds 70,000 in winning bets, making the race's first prize of pounds 5,575 look rather small beer.
Down the years
Unfortunately, Beadsman is moving in the opposite direction and, unable to control his speed, he smacks straight into the pair of them, sending all three sprawling.
Mick The Miller: `Before the dogs have even crossed the finish line the Klaxon denoting `no-race' is blaring.; Here we print extracts from Michael Tanner's book The Legend of Mick The Miller, the extraordinary tale of the greatest greyhound to see a track
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