TENNYSON.
Not wholly in the busy world, nor _quite_
Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
News from the humming _city_ comes to it
In _sound_ of _funeral_ or of _marriage_ bells;
And sitting muffled in dark leaves you hear
The windy clanging of the winter clock;
Although between it and the garden lies
A _league_ of grass, washed by a slow broad stream,
That, stirred with _languid pulses_ of the oar,
Waves all its lazy _lilies_, and creeps on,
Barge laden, to three _arches_ of a bridge,
_Crowned_ with the _minster-towers_.
PART V.--MISCELLANEOUS DERIVATIVES.
I.--WORDS DERIVED FROM THE NAMES OF PERSONS.
1.--NOUNS.
AT'LAS, _a collection of maps bound together_: "Atlas," a fabled giant who,
according to the Greek notion bore the earth upon his shoulders.
ACAD'EMY, _a superior grade school, a society of learned men_: "Academus,"
a Greek in whose garden near Athens Plato taught.
AMMO'NIA, _the pungent matter of smelling salts_: "Jupiter Ammon," near
whose temple in Libya it was originally obtained.
BAC'CHANAL, _one who indulges in drunken revels_: "Bacchus," the god of
wine.
BOW'IE KNIFE, _an American weapon_: Colonel "Bowie," the inventor.
BRAGGADO'CIO, _a vain boaster_: "Braggadochio," a boastful character in
Spenser's Faery Queen.
BUD'DHISM, _a wide-spread Asiatic religion_: "Buddha," a Hindoo sage who
lived about 1000 B.C.
CAL'VINISM, _the doctrines of Calvin_: "Calvin," a Swiss theologian of the
16th century.
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