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Revelry
Revenge (See VENGEANCE.) Reward (See PRIZE.) Bacchanalia festival in honor of Bacchus, god of wine. [Rom. Religion: NCE, 203]
scene of Falstaff’s carousals. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV; II Henry IV] hard-drinking god of festive mirth; whence, comic. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 31] celebrations honoring the wine god, Dionysus. [Gk. Religion: Avery, 399, 404–408; Parrinder, 80] (Rom. Bacchus) god of wine and revelry. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 39] erotically tinged painting of picnic scene. [Fr. Art: Daniel, 102] wandering scholar-poets of satirical Latin verse celebrating sensual pleasure. [Medieval Hist.: NCE, 1105] traditional headdress of Dionysus (Bacchus). [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Jobes, 373] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | And thus, while the one ship went cheerily before the breeze, the other stubbornly fought against it; and so the two vessels parted; the crew of the Pequod looking with grave, lingering glances towards the receding Bachelor; but the Bachelor's men never heeding their gaze for the lively revelry they were in. A back door was partly open, as if by neglect, and their first thought was that the authors of the awful revelry might have escaped. The alcohol, shrewdly blended with water, is handed to me, and soon I am caught up in the revelry, with maggots crawling in my brain and John Barleycorn whispering to me that life is big, and that we are all brave and fine--free spirits sprawling like careless gods upon the turf and telling the two-by- four, cut-and-dried, conventional world to go hang. |
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