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Victorian Literature by Victor Shea & William Whitla
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Victor Shea & William Whitla

Edward Lear (1812–88) Born in Highgate near London, Lear was the twentieth of twenty-one children, and was largely raised by his oldest sister Ann when his stockbroker father went bankrupt. ...
( Category: Victorian March 6,2020 )
This Young Monster by Fox Charlie;
epub |eng | 2017-03-05 | Author:Fox, Charlie; [Charlie Fox]

The poor goth princess Francesca Woodman caught my ghostliness just right in plenty of her photographs, many of them self-portraits taken with preternatural elegance when she was still a teenager, ...
( Category: Essays March 6,2020 )
A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass
epub |eng | 2017-03-05 | Author:Robert Hass

In this case right relation to nature is, it would seem, an eye to beauty and an imagination open to the myth-world. HORACE 7.Horace published—I am a little hazy about ...
( Category: Poetry March 6,2020 )
I've Been Wrong Before by Evan James
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Evan James

* * * One day I went for a massage. I figured it might help with my back pain, which had flared up in Sydney a week earlier. My masseur ...
( Category: Essays March 6,2020 )
The Queen of the Air by John Ruskin
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:John Ruskin

III. ATHENA ERGANE.* (Athena in the Heart.) * "Athena the worker, or having rule over work." The name was first give to her by the Athenians. VARIOUS NOTES RELATING TO ...
( Category: Social Philosophy March 5,2020 )
At a Breezy Time of Day by James V. Schall
azw3 |eng | 2019-06-02 | Author:James V. Schall [Schall, James V.]

Thanks for the questions, I enjoyed them. * * * 1 Interview by Carl Olson, with James V. Schall, S.J., in Ignatius Insight, January 2008. Chapter 9 “Football was always ...
( Category: Essays March 5,2020 )
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues by Loren Rhoads
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Loren Rhoads

Brain Salad Surgery by Seth Flagsberg I heard him before I saw him. The clink and clank from the metal chains around his ankles announced his arrival. When he turned ...
( Category: Essays March 5,2020 )
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey
epub |eng | 2006-09-30 | Author:Kitty Burns Florey [Florey, Kitty Burns]

There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now. In Paris in the 1880s, Marcel Proust was spared ...
( Category: Essays March 5,2020 )
The Dream-Child's Progress and Other Essays by David Bentley Hart
mobi |eng | 2017-03-02 | Author:David Bentley Hart

HERE IN OUR shady submontane seclusion, cool breezes constantly blow down from the peaks above and through the southern pass, even during the hottest months of summer. The soughing of ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2020 )
The Portable Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
epub |eng | 1992-02-01 | Author:Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln, Abraham]

Resolved, That in furtherance of these principles we will use such constitutional and lawful means as shall seem best adapted to their accomplishment, and that we will support no man ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2020 )
On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings by William James
epub |eng | 2009-07-26 | Author:William James

Zeal, and the virtue to exist by faith As soldiers live by courage; as, by strength Of heart, the sailor fights with roaring seas. Suppose, however thickly evils crowd upon ...
( Category: Modern March 4,2020 )
The Author's Craft by Bennett Arnold
epub | | | Author:Bennett, Arnold

Part III - Writing Plays * I There is an idea abroad, assiduously fostered as a rule by critics who happen to have written neither novels nor plays, that it ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2020 )
The Associated Press Stylebook 2018 by The Associated Press
epub |eng | 2018-06-03 | Author:The Associated Press [Press, The Associated]

See comma. semicolon (;) In general, use the semicolon to indicate a greater separation of thought and information than a comma can convey but less than the separation that a ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2020 )
Shamans Through Time by Jeremy Narby
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Narby

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood . . . They explained to me that the word “serpent” was synonymous in the Bible with the ...
( Category: Shamanism March 4,2020 )
Portrait of a Serial Killer: Uncollected Writings by Khushwant Singh
epub |eng | 2015-07-31 | Author:Khushwant Singh [Singh, Khushwant]

THE TAJ MAHAL The Taj Mahal—crown of the palace—is named for Mumtaz Mahal, the regal title of the wife of Emperor Shah Jahan. The mausoleum was first known as Taj ...
( Category: Essays March 3,2020 )

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