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David, the narrator of the frame tale, is a middle-aged Manhattan lawyer.At the invitation of a senior partner, he joins a strange gentlemen's club where the members, in addition to reading, chatting and playing billiards and chess, like to tell stories, some of which range into the bizarre and macabre.
"Home Thoughts, from Abroad" is a poem by Robert Browning. It was written in 1845 while Browning was on a visit to northern Italy, and was first published in his Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. [1] It is considered an exemplary work of Romantic literature for its evocation of a sense of longing and sentimental references to natural beauty.
My business life has been passed in this beautiful and prosperous city. It gives me great honor to present to the City of Milwaukee this monument of Robert Burns, the world's great poet, the poet of humanity. [37] The exercises concluded with the audience and Lyric Glee Club singing the popular and well-known Robert Burns song, "Auld Lang Syne ...
Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School ; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years.
As a gentleman switches his cane." —Illustration from the 1830 edition of The Devil's Walk , attributed to Professor Porson "The Devil's Thoughts" is a satirical poem in common metre by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , published in 1799, and expanded by Robert Southey in 1827 and retitled "The Devil's Walk" .
King was buried in the St. Joseph City, Michigan Cemetery. A monument later erected in Lake Bluff Park, Berrien County, Michigan in 1924 features a bronze bust of King created by Chicago sculptor Leonard Crunelle. [4] On the granite monument base are lines from his poem "The River St. Joe": [5] Where the bumblebee sips and the clover's in bloom,
Robert Montgomery (born 7 July 1972) is a Scottish-born, London-based poet, artist, and sculptor, renowned for his site-specific installations that incorporate light and text. He is also known for his "fire poems", which are created using flames to display poetic messages. Montgomery’s work draws on a "melancholic post-Situationist" tradition ...
Lovelace's brother, Francis Lovelace (1621–1675), was the second governor of the New York Colony appointed by the Duke of York, later King James II of England. They were also great nephews of both George Sandys [ 7 ] (2 March 1577 – March 1644), an English traveller, colonist and poet; and of Sir Edwin Sandys [ 8 ] (9 December 1561 ...