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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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noun

(usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

“Writers often choose accommodation when discussing complex ideas.”

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ARCADES.

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John Milton·1608–1674
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he noble persons of the family of the Countess Dowager of Derby werefortunate enough to obtain the services of the poet John Milton to aid inthe composition of a mask, which they presented to her ladyship at herresidence in the country. Arcades--the Arcadians--is Milton'scontribution to this performance. In date the poem precedes Comus, whichis known to have been composed in 1634. On the meaning of the term _mask_, as applied to a dramatic form, seeintroductory note on Comus. 20. Latona (or Leto) was the mother of Apollo and Diana by Zeus. 21. the towered Cybele is Virgil's Berecyntia Mater, the Phrygian mother,who, wearing her mural crown, drives in her chariot through the cities ofPhrygia. She was conceived as one of the very oldest deities, and asmother of a hundred gods. See AEneid VI 785. 28. Of famous Arcady ye are. Arcadia, in the Peloponnesus, was peculiarlythe home of music and song, especially among the shepherds. See Virgil,Eclogue VII 4-5.
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