shepherds' score
shepherds' score Quick reference
A Dictionary of English Folklore
...' score . Across a wide area of northern England and southern Scotland, a curious linguistic feature has been regularly reported in the shape of an unusual method of counting—apparently based on twenty, reputedly used extensively by shepherds, and bearing a distinct similarity to Welsh and other Celtic languages. Individual words vary considerably from place to place, but overall the pattern is remarkably similar: 1 Yan 2 Tan 3 Tethera 4 Pethera 5 Pimp 6 Sethera 7 Lethera 8 Hovera 9 Dovera 10 Dick 11 Yan-a-dick 12 Tan-a-dick 13 Thethera-dick 14...
shepherds' score
Architecture Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
... Ancient Architecture of England ( 1795–1814 ); Edward Brayley and John *Britton 's monumental The Beauties of England and Wales (25 vols. 1801–14 ); A. C. *Pugin and Britton 's Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London ( 1825–8 ); and James Elmes and T. H. Shepherd 's steel-engraved Metropolitan Improvements ( 1827–30 ) and London in the Nineteenth Century ( 1829–31 ). This novel media reached well beyond architecture's traditional reading public. The topographical publications and periodicals like the Penny Magazine and Gentleman's...
Popular Culture Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
... Pierce *Egan . At once we are confronted with the range of dissimilarities and particularities which the term ‘popular culture’ must encompass. The son of a thresher in Helpstone, John Clare worked for much of his life as a day-labourer as well as a poet; ploughing, shepherding, lime-burning, and scribbling ‘rhymes’. With brief exceptions he lived in a world bounded by the village of his birth and the nearby rural town of Stamford; his poetry evoked with vivid specificity the landscape, idiom, songs, and folk-ways of the fen country. Pierce Egan, by...
39 The History of the Book in the Indian Subcontinent Reference library
Abhijit Gupta
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...48 Jur.) Initially, William Bolts was asked to design the Bengali type, but his design was not to Halhed’s liking. The task was then entrusted to Charles *Wilkins , also a civil servant with the Company, who cast the type with the help of Pancānan Karmakār, a smith, and Joseph Shepherd, a seal- and gem-cutter. The printing was carried out on a press at Hooghly, possibly owned by one John Andrews. The Company itself paid for the printing, in a somewhat miserly manner. By the end of 1800 , there were as many as 40 printers working in Calcutta (now Kolkata)....
2 Esdras Reference library
Peter Hayman and Peter Hayman
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...modelled on 4 Ezra 14:1 ff. v. 33 b probably alludes to the incident of the Golden Calf ( Ex 32 ) which became a type of Israel's rejection of Christ in Christian anti-Jewish polemic. The pattern is as before: Israel rejects God, so he turns to a new audience ( v. 34 ). The ‘shepherd’ ( v. 34 ) could be God but more likely refers to Christ; see Jn 10:11; Heb 13:20; 1 Pet 2:25; 5:4 . Like other parts of the 2 Esdras complex, 5 Ezra is marked by an intense expectation that the end of the age is at hand; see 4:26, 14:18, 16:74 . The end is at hand because the...
Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy Reference library
Carol Meyers
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...Does not include the overlap with David. In highlighting David and his deeds, the DH captures the sympathy of the audience. It is difficult to follow David's story without being caught up in his heroic rise from shepherd boy to dynastic paragon. That he perpetrates violence and brutality along the way, the DH takes for granted. What other recourse has he against his enemies, who are cast as God's enemies as well? One of the best examples of the aggrandizement of David is the Goliath story; the...
1 Corinthians Reference library
John Barclay and John Barclay
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...mention of ‘the brothers of the Lord’ (e.g. James, 15:7 ), and Cephas, the hero of the Cephas group, 1:12 ). He then strings together an impressive collection of arguments for this entitlement ( vv. 7–14 ). He appeals first to human parallels (soldiers, vineyard workers, and shepherds), where workers expect some return for their labour ( v. 7 ). He then turns to the Scriptures for the same principle, offering an allegorical reading of Moses' law about the threshing ox ( vv. 8–11; see Deut 25:4 ). It is not often that Paul appeals directly to ‘the law of...
Florence Easton
Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato, L'
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Percy Grainger
shepherds Quick reference
A Dictionary of English Folklore
...fossil sea-urchins found on the Downs were called ‘shepherds' crowns' may imply they collected them for sale. They were often displayed on cottage mantlepieces or windowsills, sometimes being blackened with boot polish; the general belief was that they acted as thunder-stones , to keep thunder away and so prevent milk from turning sour, and some thought they also kept witches away. They were regarded as lucky, and whoever found one must spit on it and toss it over his left shoulder. See also SHEPHERDS' SCORE...
Easton, Florence (1882) Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
...South Bank, Yorks , 1882 ; d NY , 1955 ) English soprano . Opera début as Shepherd in Tannhäuser with Moody‐Manners Co., Newcastle upon Tyne, 1903 . Joined Savage Co., Baltimore, 1904–5 , 1906–7 . Member Berlin Royal Opera 1907–13 ; Hamburg Opera 1912–16 ; Chicago 1915–17 ; NY Met 1917–29 and 1935–6 ; CG 1927 and 1932 ; SW 1934 . Created Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (NY Met 1918 ). Repertory of 150 very varied roles in 4 languages and could learn a new score in 12 hours. Resplendent Brünnhilde with Melchior in Siegfried , CG 1932 ....
King Roger Quick reference
The Grove Book of Operas (2 ed.)
...to call the opera Pasterz (‘The Shepherd’), and the changes he made reflected the shift of focus from the Shepherd to the King. Work on the music began in 1920 , but the opera was completed only in August 1924 . The first performance was conducted by Emil Młynarski , produced by Adolf Popławski and designed by Wincenty Drabik . Several productions have been given, including one in London in 1975 . A vocal score was published in 1926 , with a German libretto appearing two years later, and the full score was published in 1973 . The opera has...
Crib, the Christmas Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture (2 ed.)
...angels, ox and ass, and three shepherds during the Christmas season; for Epiphany the three Magi are substituted for the shepherds. The ox and ass, though always associated with the Nativity, are not mentioned in the NT, but derive from the Apocryphal Gospel known as the Pseudo-Matthew. Over the centuries these groups became a distinct sculptural type (Ital. presepe or presepio ) and, from the 17th to 19th centuries, a Neapolitan speciality, with whole families such as the Sammartino, producing elaborate groups with scores, or even hundreds, of figures...
counting Quick reference
A Dictionary of English Folklore
...advised against counting their winnings at the card-table, and on a similar principle: ‘A Suffolk shepherd… will seldom willingly tell even his master the number of lambs born until the lambing-season is over for fear of bad luck’ ( Folk-Lore 54 ( 1943 ), 390). The only thing one should definitely count is warts , as from the mid-19th century to the present day this has been a standard way of getting rid of them. See also: COUNTING-OUT RHYMES ; SHEPHERDS' SCORE ; STANDING STONES ; WEIGHING . Opie and Tatem , 1989: 101–2; Roud ,...
Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato, L' Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)
...ranked as one of his finest, most ambitious works. Structurally it follows Charles Jennens's text (based on Milton) and Handel's score in its alternation of sanguine and melancholic viewpoints. Visually it also draws on Blake's series of watercolour illustrations of Milton's poems. The movement contrasts pale, exquisite images of melancholy with extrovert, earthy humour, conjuring up a classical, pastoral world of goddesses, shepherds, artists, men, and beasts and concluding with a rousingly utopian vision of...
