Mag Dá Cheó
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Mag Dá Cheó, Mag Dá Cheo [Ir., plain of the two mists]. Place in early Ireland, located between
Cruachain and Athlone in the realm of the
Uí Maine [Hy Many],
Connacht, in what is today Co. Roscommon. A place of
otherworldly associations, Mag Dá Cheó is sometimes also linked with the otherworldly
Mag Mell.
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Archive: Learning by the book; Chris Upton explores the history of a school library that is celebrating its 400th anniversary.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/25/2002; 700+ words
; ...Four years after Tovey left, one Philemon Holland was appointed as junior master...Europe was still in Latin or Greek, Philemon Holland took it upon himself to...translator general'. Poor old Philemon translated himself into an early...
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The learned man who made city a centre for scholars; IN OUR SERIES ON COVENTRY CHARACTERS WE LOOK AT ONE OF THE CITY'S FIRST HEADMASTERS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 2/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; PHILEMON HOLLAND was one of the most gifted scholars of...land as long he founded a free school. Holland became head master in 1628 at the age...testament to the good reputation he enjoyed. Holland's whole life was set aside for study...
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Flattery in Shakespeare's Othello: the relevance of Plutarch and Sir Thomas Elyot.
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...edition of the Moralia translated by Philemon Holland and published in London in 1603...It is possible, in fact, that Holland's translation may have been in...It seems possible, then, that Holland's translation may have existed...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/23/2000; ; 685 words
; ...instructive quote from Camden's Britannia, as translated by Philemon Holland, which says that in one of the Irish counties "women...1610 version of The Tempest, whose date is the same as Holland's Camden, has "Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the...
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Sense of euphoria
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 11/11/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...he excelled his rival Protogenes: he knew when to stop. From this, we learn - in the Elizabethan translation by Philemon Holland - a `memorable admonition' - that double diligence and overmuch curiositie doth hurt overwhiles'. A painting...
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(Not) meeting without name.('Noms Propres' by Emmanuel Levinas)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: symploke; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...OED, the word "anonymous" belongs to the late Elizabethan period. That indefatigable translator of the age, Philemon Holland, noted in his translation of Pliny's Natural History (1601) that when something was found to have "no name...
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Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Hoby's translation of Castiglione's Libro del cortegiano, Florio's translation of Montaigne's Essais, and Philemon Holland's Livy. Chapter 4 compares various poetic translations, with most of the chapter given over to a discussion of...
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The end of the English history play in Perkin Warbeck.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...method of historical writing, the Elizabethan humanist Roger Ascham had called for a "playne and open" style, and Philemon Holland, in 1600, concurred that the historian should direct his pen "not to any affected phrase, but to a meane and...
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Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 1/26/1998; 346 words
; ...Bloemfontein Celtic), Hans Vonk (Heerenveen, Holland) Defenders: Mark Fish (Bolton, England...Brian Sebapole (Cosmos) Strikers: Philemon Masinga (Bari, Italy), Benni McCarthy (Ajax, Holland), Pollen Ndlanya (Bursaspor, Turkey...
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; ...his country on course for the finals. HOLLAND: Dennis Bergkamp (Arsenal) Scorer of sensational goals for Holland and Arsenal, his partnership with Patrick...Cup qualifying matches. SOUTH AFRICA: Philemon Masinga (Bari) Not the outstanding...
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Philemon Holland
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Philemon Holland 1552-1637, English translator and scholar. Educated at Cambridge, he became director of the free school in Coventry, where...
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Holland, Philemon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Holland, Philemon (1552–1637), celebrated for his translations of Livy (1600), Pliny's Natural History (1601), Plutarch...
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Iron
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...virtues of iron was made by Pliny the Elder (ca. 23-79 C.E.) in his Natural History (as translated in 1601 by Philemon Holland). "As touching the use of Yron and steele in Physicke, it serveth otherwise than for to launce, cut and dismember...
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Jet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...that is a variety of lignite. Its occult virtues are thus described by Pliny ( Historia naturalis, translated by Philemon Holland, 1601): "In burning, the perfume thereof chaseth away serpents, and bringeth women again that lie in a trance...
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necromancy
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...Latin necromantia , where the first element represented Greek nekros ‘corpse’. The translator Philemon Holland (1552–1637) gave the name Necromancy to that part of the Odyssey (book 6) which describes Odysseus...
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