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Austen and The Picturesque Part II
Austen and the Picturesque Part I While Horace Walpole’s taste developed to appreciate the more grandly Gothic and Sublime¹, and Thomas Gray the more neoclassical aesthetics of The Beautiful¹, t… more →
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December 26 in history
wrote 1 week ago: On December 26: 1620 Pilgrim Fathers landed at what became New Plymouth in Massachusetts. 1716 Thom … more →
REVIEW: The VS. EP (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)
wrote 2 weeks ago: The VS. EP is available by free download. Click below for the link. Macklemore makes music that … more →
Asking the Big Questions: The Key to Viral Marketing
wrote 1 month ago: The famous Twitter question is ‘What are you doing’? This is a brilliant question. You could say it … more →
Selections from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray
wrote 2 months ago: Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save wher … more →
Football, Game 8: The Citadel vs. Samford
wrote 2 months ago: I’ll just begin this post with some assorted trivia about Samford: Samford was called Howard C … more →
Confession
wrote 3 months ago: I used to p r a c t i c e pretending to IGNORE, though inside probably I do care. I keep pretending … more →
Literary Travel in the United Kingdom
wrote 3 months ago: By PAT HARTMAN News Editor Who should know literary tourism better than the author of 17 novels, plu … more →
Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
wrote 3 months ago: This reference comes near the end of episode 6, Hades, at line 940 in the Gabler edition. Oddly, Blo … more →
REVIEW: Self-Titled (Champagne Champagne)
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wrote 3 months ago: The three dudes that make up the group Champagne Champagne (emcees Pearl Dragon and Thomas Gray, and … more →
Amid the torrents ever-echoing road.
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wrote 5 months ago: Close to the lovely Rhaeadr du, in the late 18th century an unknown person cut into a rock lines fro … more →
I want to be buried here
wrote 7 months ago: This past Saturday, I found myself at a country graveyard in New Holland, PA. I was visiting friends … more →
A Constant Force, Part 1, Pick A Team
wrote 7 months ago: When I was seven life went blissfully by, unlike children today of that age I wasn’t bombarded with … more →
No, I don't mean Grey's Anatomy I do mean Gray's Elegy
wrote 8 months ago: Wending my weary way back from Sainsbury’s this evening via the Rec., hearing the church bell … more →
Susan Boyle. Unexpected Divine Chanteuse. Sweet 47.
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wrote 8 months ago: ‘Full many a gem of purest ray serene’ … Divine British Nightingale Susan Boyle. S … more →
Democracy vs. plutocracy
wrote 9 months ago: Ann Althouse is peeved that the presidential press conference pre-empted American Idol, as were the … more →
Crisis vs. Opportunity
wrote 9 months ago: The Flower Duet from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes posted to YouTube by FrauLehmannsiehtfern Full m … more →
What cat's averse to fish?
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wrote 10 months ago: Not my cat, here caught tidying up after the (lesser) dirty deed on the nature strip. He isn’ … more →
Life is Short. Pray Hard.
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wrote 1 year ago: My mom wore her brand-new Clinton Portis jersey to my brother’s favorite Mahnattan sports-bar … more →
Cadillac Ranch
wrote 1 year ago: Three sisters take to the road in this fast-paced adventure filled with romance, laughs larceny and … more →
