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In fear that the noblewoman won't live through the journey, the husband suggests postponing and turning back home. Angrily she responds that they must go abroad for her recovery because the only thing she should do at home is die. At the mere mention of death, Lady Sirkinskaya grows quiet, pouts like a child, and begins to cry.
"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man .
Here far from Men amid this pathless grove, In solemn thought the Minstrel wont to rove, Like Star-beam on the rude sequester'd Tide Lone-glittering, thro' the Forest's murksome pride. And here in Inspiration's eager Hour, When most the big soul feels the mad'ning Power, These wilds, these caverns roaming o'er,
Dr. Woodard learns that Julia keeps a journal of her experiments on Barnabas. He reads the medical notes and finds out what Barnabas is. Barnabas kills Dr. Woodard with an injection that makes his death look like a heart attack. Barnabas wants Julia treatments accelerated, as he is anxious to win Victoria Winters' love and be free of the ...
Illustration for "The Conqueror Worm", by W. Heath Robinson, 1900 "The Conqueror Worm" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about human mortality and the inevitability of death. It was first published separately in Graham's Magazine in 1843, but quickly became associated with Poe's short story "Ligeia" after Poe added the poem to a revised publication of the story in 1845.
Two men have been convicted on charges relating to human smuggling in a trial over the deaths of an Indian family that froze to death crossing the U.S.-Canada border.
A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. Jurors, who deliberated for less than two hours ...
The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism , the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair , which he equates with the Christian concept of sin , which he terms "the sin of despair".