to mend the matter
629 Medium
630 We see it through a different) medium
634 Medley of
635 A) medley of all sorts
697 Membranes
714 Memories
766 Mends
770 By way of) mending the matter,
688 He melted into tears
719 No) men can be spared
—
ex Class 59, John Macdonald, A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged on a Very Comprehensive Scale. (Whitehall, 1817) *
note —
upon catching most of a PBS program on — and showing the complete — Mark Morris staging of the Handel oratorio L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Columns, rows, permutations of dancers together brought Macdonald’s Dictionary — his “Treatise Explanatory” — to mind, and led to a search for “melancholy,” and the single page from which the above is derived.
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tags:
mendings; melancholy; tears; telegraphic codes; such mixture was not held a stain
John Macdonald (1817)