'Beneath us, like an —'s pendent nest' (Longfellow, The Belfry of Bruges) |
ORIOLE |
'Speak fair words, — — be mute' (Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis) |
ORELSE |
A Miss Pecksniff of unstrained quality, no doubt |
MERCY |
Bemelmans heroine almost triggering Proustian recall |
MADELINE |
Cognomen of HCE, the flatterer |
EARWIG |
Consumed after bad translation of Dante, it may occur earlier |
ANTEDATE |
Disraeli has him form government, with career well-documented by Keats |
ENDYMION |
Dr Lake, the fallen angel |
MOLOCH |
Eucharistic offering, unique to albino? |
OBLATION |
Exist in alternative – one of de Boys |
OLIVER |
Fiction in early play, possibly partly Shakespeare, and wholly Poquelin |
MOLIERE |
Harp on it, it's instrumental of a god |
AEOLIAN |
Hazlitt mistrusted the most plausible ones |
REASONERS |
Immature, as Eban, page to Keats's Emperor Elfinan |
UNDERAGE |
Is cut evil, perhaps, in old law book? |
LEVITICUS |