FRANK SEWALL
\fɹˈaŋk sˈuːɔːl], \fɹˈaŋk sˈuːɔːl], \f_ɹ_ˈa_ŋ_k s_ˈuː_ɔː_l]\
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An American writer and Swedenborgian minister; born in Maine, 1837. He has written many denominational and religious works; among them "Moody Mike; or, The Power of Love"; "The Hem of his Garment"; "The Pillow of Stones"; "The New Ethics"; "The New Metaphysics"; "Angelo and Ariel". He has been remarkably successful in the translation of Italian and French poetry, and has published a translation of the poems of Carducci, and works on him, notably "Giosue Carducci and the Hellenic Reaction in Italy"; "Carducci and the Classic Realism" (1892). His translation of Carducci's sonnet "The Ox" has been noticed throughout Europe.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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hydromorphic
- [Greek] Structurally adapted to an aquatic environment, as organs of water plants.