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AdeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
air
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
arcs
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
balustrade
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
breeze
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
brow
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bunches
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
burden
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From this reading The earth sulks under the burden of the unmerciful sun.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
BYprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
cold
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
doesauxiliary verbUS /dʌz/
the form of “do” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
earth
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From this reading The earth sulks under the burden of the unmerciful sun.
eitherdeterminerUS /ˈiːðər/
one or the other of two
From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
emblazoned
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
fantastic
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
flowers
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
fountain's
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
fulness
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
gallant
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
GARDEN
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grapes
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
grass
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
grotto
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gushes
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
hang
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
heat
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
HerenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
INprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
laden
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
ladies
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
lady's
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
like
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
lords
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
LOVE
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From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
lusty
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
making
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
met
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From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
midsummer
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
music
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
noise
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
noon
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
OFprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
PAINTING
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From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
plumes
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
PRADO
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ringlets
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
romp
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
RUBENS
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From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
satin
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
side
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
skirt
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
solstice
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
stirs
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
sulks
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From this reading The earth sulks under the burden of the unmerciful sun.
sun
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From this reading The earth sulks under the burden of the unmerciful sun.
sun-shot
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
swells
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading 'THE GARDEN OF LOVE' A PAINTING BY RUBENS, IN THE PRADO Here they are met.
thirst
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
tosses
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
trees
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
unmerciful
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From this reading The earth sulks under the burden of the unmerciful sun.
very
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
wanton
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From this reading Here, by the balustrade, these lords and lusty ladies are met to romp and wanton in the fulness of love, under the solstice of a noon in midsummer.
Water
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
whet
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From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
whileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading But the very breeze is laden with heat, and the fountain's noise does but whet the thirst of the grass, the flowers, the trees.
yellow
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From this reading Water gushes in fantastic arcs from the grotto, making a cold music to the emblazoned air, while a breeze swells the sun-shot satin of every lady's skirt, and tosses the ringlets that hang like bunches of yellow grapes on either side of her brow, and stirs the plumes of her gallant.
