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  • Canning, Dundas, etc. "Weathercock" Windham, in the Ministry of "All the

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Links to this post poems about books someone brought up this subject on the bibliophile list this morning and I forgot I hadn't posted something from "the Weathercock Crows" by L.B. Romaine in a while.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Saturday, June 14, 2008 poems about books someone brought up this subject on the bibliophile list this morning and I forgot I hadn't posted something from "the Weathercock Crows" by L.B. Romaine in a while.

    poems about books 2008

  • I have thus given historic authorities, sufficient to show the portentous mysteries connected with the House of the Weathercock, and its talismanic horseman.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • I have thus given historic authorities, sufficient to show the portentous mysteries connected with the House of the Weathercock, and its talismanic horseman.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • I understand that the next volume in this series will be entitled "The Eagles and the Weathercock".

    A Glance At The Future 1951

  • Not long after this period, Field, who by his _Woman is a Weathercock_ (1612) and his _Amends for Ladies_

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • One passage must have been particularly famous, for we find it parodied most elaborately by Field, as late as 1606, in his _A Woman is a Weathercock_ [63].

    John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

  • "Weathercock can without the wind," suggested Jo, as he paused for a simile.

    Little Women 1921

  • ATTRIBUTION: Field (—— –1641): A Woman’s a Weathercock.

    Quotations 1919

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