This idiom means to deal with a difficult situation directly and bravely.

'Money' is uncountable. 'A little' is used with uncountable nouns for a small amount.

'Though' shows contrast. In compound sentences this contrast is shown with 'but'.

These lines are from Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Opening line of "The Canonization" by metaphysical poet John Donne.

'Had better' + bare infinitive (without 'to').

'Down' modifies the verb 'went' indicating direction — adverb of place.

'It is + adjective + to + verb' → 'Subject + is + adjective + to be + past participle'.

John Milton wrote the famous English epic "Paradise Lost".

Euphemism is using a mild indirect expression instead of a harsh one (e.g. 'passed away' for 'died').

'Mutton' is a material noun — name of a type of meat.

'Reading' as subject of the sentence functions as a gerund (verb form as noun).

Distributive pronouns (each either neither) refer to persons or things one at a time.

Alexander Pope was of the Augustan Age (early 18th century). The others are Victorian poets.

'Verbose' means using more words than needed. A verbose speech has too many words.

'While the iron is hot' is an adverbial clause of time modifying the verb 'Strike'.

The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd established the English revenge tragedy genre.

R.K. Narayan was a pioneering Indian English novelist famous for novels set in fictional Malgudi.

A panegyric is a public speech or text in elaborate praise of someone or something.

'Heterogeneous' is correct meaning diverse in character or content.