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beneficent spider

R the beneficent spider ...

407. Cf. Webster, The White Devil, V, vi:

                                                        '...they'll remarry
Ere the worm pierce your winding-sheet, ere the spider
Make a thin curtain for your epitapths.' [Eliot's note]

  →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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