P7
1. glimmer: trace, gleam, hint, bit, grain
2. Southey: Robert Southey (1774-1843): English poet
and man of letters. Poet laureate from 1813.
3. corporal: related to body, bodily
4. verities: accepted truth; general law or truth
on which religious teaching and standard right behavior
etc., is based
5. literally: exactly; precisely
6. bare: empty; lack
7.
bare of anything like fancy and wit: without (having
no) imagination and wisdom
8. laudanum: a substance containing the drug (opium)
9. crooked: not straight, twisted, curved
10. evoke: produce or call up
11. crushing: crumbling, shattering, crumpling, overwhelming
12. stupendous: remarkable, extraordinary, fabulous,
incredible; gigantic, enormous, immense, massive
13. bore: the type of a person who causes others to
lose interest in him esp. by continual talk; an annoying
person; (referring to Mr. H’s type of people)
