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The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 6: 1825 - 1826 by John Gibson Lockhart
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:John Gibson Lockhart [Unbekannt]

* To hain any thing is, Anglice, to deal very carefully, penuriously about it—tyne, to lose. Scott often used to say, “hain a pen and tyne a pen;” which is ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 2,2020 )
Dear James by R. O. Blechman
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:R. O. Blechman

July 1, 1984 Dear James, I’m returning your cartoon with a gold star. Only one? I could plaster it with dozens, I like your drawing so much. But I don’t ...
( Category: Drawing March 2,2020 )
The British Army Guide: 2016-2017 by Unknown
epub |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Unknown

SA 80A2 LSW UK (temperate) 31,500 16,000 Brunei (hot/wet) 31,500 9,600 Kuwait (hot/dry) 7,875 8,728 Alaska (cold/dry) 31,500 43,200 The first SA 80A2 were in operational service during early 2002 ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 2,2020 )
The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 3: 1812 - 1815 by John Gibson Lockhart
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:John Gibson Lockhart [Unbekannt]

“19th August, 1814.—Loch Eribol, near Cape Wrath. Went off before eight a.m. to breakfast with our friend Mr. Anderson. His house, invisible from the vessel at her moorings, and, indeed, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 2,2020 )
The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 4: 1816 - 1820 by John Gibson Lockhart
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:John Gibson Lockhart [Unbekannt]

When we rose from table, Scott proposed that we should all ascend his western turret, to enjoy a moonlight view of the valley. The younger part of his company were ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 2,2020 )
Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris
epub |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Alexandra Harris [Harris, Alexandra]

Nineteen-thirties culture pastorally reconvened the lost personalities of the village. In Bernard Leach we find the artist as potter, in Hennell the artist as carpenter. In T. S. Eliot we ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 2,2020 )
The Genius of Language by Wendy Lesser
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Wendy Lesser [Lesser, Wendy]

ITALIAN Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald In early 1959, while we were living in a small seaside town along the Ligurian coast, Italian television made a documentary of us. ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
calligraphy 101 by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

( Category: Calligraphy March 2,2020 )
Chopin in Paris by TAD SZULC
epub |eng | | Author:TAD SZULC

Chapter 18 THAT THE STUDENTS —the aristocratic daughters from Faubourg St. Honoré and Faubourg St. Germain, and young Polish emigrés—chose to come to Chopin for their lessons when he returned ...
( Category: Classical March 2,2020 )
Rogue Cartoonist: The Internet Perils of a Citizen-Muckraker by Ben Garrison
epub |eng | 2015-05-09 | Author:Ben Garrison [Garrison, Ben]

TOP KEKS “My laughter has reached uncontainable levels and my sides are now hurdling through the atmosphere at light speed!” —Anonymous The above is a typical comment posted on 4chan’s ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 2,2020 )
We'll Always Have Casablanca by Noah Isenberg
epub |eng | | Author:Noah Isenberg

A DAY AFTER the first PCA report arrived, Hal Wallis received “Notes on Screenplay Casablanca,” the detailed commentary prepared by Casey Robinson. The best-paid writer at the studio, and someone ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 2,2020 )
The Queen Next Door by Linda Solomon
epub |eng | 2019-10-13 | Author:Linda Solomon

1986 JANUARY Live Backstage at the American Music Awards Aretha appeared on the American Music Awards live via satellite from the Premier Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan, to perform and ...
( Category: Photojournalism March 2,2020 )
Another Slice of Johnners by Brian Johnston
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Johnston

11 Patsy Hendren, Don Bradman, Wally Hammond Patsy Hendren AFTER I ‘BECAME’ Hendren in 1921, I noticed one day an advertisement in a paper. It showed a picture of Hendren ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 2,2020 )
Confessions of a Soup Nazi: An Adventure in Acting and Cooking by Larry Thomas
epub |eng | 2014-12-10 | Author:Larry Thomas [Thomas, Larry]

CHAPTER 16 Gain A House, Lose Grandma’s Recipes and The Chopped Liver The Kreplach The Chicken Noodle Soup The Stuffed Cabbage The Kugel (Noodle Pudding) The Matzo Brie It was ...
( Category: Television Performers March 2,2020 )
Sounds and Sweet Airs by Anna Beer
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Anna Beer

She seized upon the spirit of the composition and its innermost fibres, which then radiated out most forcefully into the souls of the singers and audience. A sforzando from her ...
( Category: Classical March 2,2020 )

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