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Akhmatova was born at Bolshoy Fontan, a resort suburb of the Black Sea port of Odessa.Her father, Andrey Gorenko [], was a descendant from a Ukrainian Cossack noble family, a naval engineer, later a civil servant in the rank of collegiate assessor, and her mother, Inna Erazmovna Stogova, was from a Russian pomeshchik (landowner) family with close ties to Kiev. [5]
"A Ballad Intituled, The Old Mans Complaint against his / Wretched Son, who to Advance his Marriage, did undo himself" is a broadside ballad about an aged father’s plaintive account of the suffering he endured under his son and daughter-in-law.
You may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb; You must have rocks in your head; You scratch my back and I will scratch yours; You only live once. You'll never get if you never go; You're never fully dressed without a smile; You've got to separate the wheat from the chaff; You've made your bed and you must lie in/on it
When Ramona overhears Dorothy's end of a phone conversation with Mrs. Rudge that night, however, she mistakenly assumes that Mrs. Rudge has betrayed her confidence. She becomes angry, argues with her parents, and decides to run away from home. Dorothy, to Ramona's shock, offers to help her pack a suitcase.
Knight grew up in poverty. After graduating from high school, she dropped out of business school [15].She later worked in the cable television industry, and due to her work moved to Tacoma, Washington, where, according to her autobiography, a psychic told her the "Enlightened One" would appear to her in the future. [13]
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"'The Heights of Macchu Picchu" (Las Alturas de Macchu Picchu) is Canto II of the Canto General.The twelve poems that comprise this section of the epic work have been translated into English regularly since even before its initial publication in Spanish in 1950, beginning with a 1948 translation by Hoffman Reynolds Hays [1] in The Tiger's Eye, a journal of arts and literature published out of ...
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