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Day Quote

masnstevy wrote 5 months ago: Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. —William Congreve … more →

Tags: Day Quote, Amoret, careless, artful, Affected

Day Quote

masnstevy wrote 5 months ago: Is there in the world a climate more uncertain than our own? And, which is a natural consequence, is … more →

Tags: Day Quote, dark, World, uncertain, Natural, Consequence, unsteady, discontent, Saturine

The Anxious Comedy

Tanya wrote 5 months ago: In Patrician Authority and Instability in ‘The Way of the World,’ Kevin Gardner asserts … more →

Tags: eighteenth century, Non-Fiction, modern, Play, Comedy, Literary criticism, character, renaissance, Restoration

Joseph Addison (3 of 6)

pari523 wrote 7 months ago: Government service.  In London Addison renewed his friendship with Somers and Halifax and other memb … more →

Tags: Prominent Whig Leader, Literary Figure, Sweeping Victory, Great Occasion, Conventional Classic Imagery, Immediate Success, Great Hour of Vicotry, More Powerful Whig, Sir John Vanbrugh

Lois on Deviant Homeschooling Moms7 comments

Milton Gaither wrote 8 months ago: This post reviews Jennifer Lois, “Emotionally Layered Accounts: Homeschoolers’ Justifica … more →

Tags: Parental motivation, Motherhood, Jennifer Lois, Déviance, Emotions, overprotective mothers, Teaching Parents Association (TPA), criticisms of homeschooling

William Congreve

Tel wrote 8 months ago: William Congreve (1670-1729) English Playwright and Poet English playwright and poet William Congrev … more →

Tags: Poets, Playwright, English, The Old Bachelor, The Way of the World

The Creation of the World

richibi wrote 9 months ago:                                                                                                      … more →

Tags: in search of beauty, poems to ponder, In Search of Truth, Ovid, Metamorphosis, the creation of the world, Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, Alexander Pope

Band Photography III

Scott Fulton wrote 9 months ago: “Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” Wi … more →

Tags: quotation, Band Photography, grynd rodd muse, Swivel Foot, Lowprofile

The Movie Didn't Make Me Swoon, but the Book Might8 comments

J.S. Peyton wrote 1 year ago: On not liking sex or the city, ladies’ night out, lying screenplays, hopeless romanticism, and … more →

Tags: Books, Sex and the City, love letters of great men, arabella hunt

William Congreve On Music

sondan wrote 1 year ago: “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” ~ … more →

Tags: Monday Music Musings, Music

Love and Hate: Two Sides of the Same Coin3 comments

Gurmeet Singh Manku wrote 1 year ago: “Hatreds are the cinders of affection.” — Walter Raleigh (1552-1618, English write … more →

Tags: Love & Harmony, Love-hate, walter raleigh, elie wiesel, Jane Nelsen, Alfred Adler, Sigmund Freud, Josh Billings, Mark Overby

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

tongolo wrote 2 years ago: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” … more →

Tags: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Irish, Writers, Satire,


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