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Publications Quotes Lewis Carroll What I tell you three times is true. The rule is, jam tomorrow, and jam yesterday - but never jam today. I am fond of children (except boys). Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop. Horace Walpole Life is a comedy to those that think, a
tragedy to those that feel. George Gordon, Lord Byron A little still she strove, and much
repented, Merely
innocent flirtation - not quite adultery, but adulteration. Wilfred Owen
Above all this book is not concerned
with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the Pity of War. The Poetry
is in the Pity. Christopher Marlowe Now
hast thou but one bare hour to live, I
count religion but a childish toy, Charles Lamb
Friend is married; he has married a Roman Catholic, which has offended
his family, but they have come to an agreement, that the boys (if they
have children) shall be bred up in the father's religion, and the
girls in the mother's, which I think equitable enough....I am
determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion,
if they can find out what it is. I tell you frankly: those who are generally considered to be
intelligent, the ones who come up with fine theories -
they are the most useless of all. Because happiness is a thing no man
possesses. Good luck may come now to one man, now to another, but
happiness, never. George Borrow
Finn Mac Coul ’mongst his joys did number
Giordano Bruno They
spoke Latin well, [were] proper men,...of good reputation ...
fairly competent in learning but mediocre in education, courtesy
and breeding..., well furnished with tides ... for 'tis yes my
master; yes my Father, or my mistress; yes sir forsooth;...elect
indeed, with their long [academic] robes, clad in velvet. One wore
two shining gold chains about his neck while the other, by God,
whose precious hand bore twelve rings on two fingers, had rather
the appearance of a rich jeweller who would wrench eyes and heart
from the amorous beholder.... Did they know aught of Greek? Aye
and also of beer.... One was the herald of the idol of Obscurity
and the other the bailiff of the goddess of Presumption. Christopher Marlowe Hero (the heroine of Marlowe's poem) explains to Leander her domestic arrangements: Upon
a rocke, and underneath a hill, Such treats! She invites him there, and Leander, duly inspired, swims the four miles across the Hellespont to be with her. But Poseidon (the Sea) has other ideas...... He watcht
his armes, and as they opend wide, Notwithstanding these attentions, Leander arrives at Hero's tower. Where is the beldame? Nowhere to be seen. And now
she1 lets him whisper in her eare, And so it all ended happily after all. (?) 1.
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Publications
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Poems in the Anthology by Subject
Advice on How to Live Cities Day and Night Melancholy Metaphysics, Folklore and Other
Transformations The Poet War Women |