Tuesday, February 03, 2009

the higher, the more awful, and the more sublime

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I saw this on a blog this morning and thought about the famous photo of construction workers casually eating lunch on a girder way above the...
Monday, February 02, 2009

of violent thirst and the power of music

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From the Journals of Lord Byron February 2. 1821 I have been considering what can be the reason why I always wake, at a certain hour in the ...
Sunday, February 01, 2009

Sunday humor

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source: bitsandpieces.us I've spent some time trying to find the original source of these images and am giving up without success. The ...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

leatherhead football

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Tomorrow being Super Bowl Sunday I thought I'd post these photos of a game played in 1923 between the Georgetown University and a team...

till, dying, all he can resign is breath

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From the Journals of Lord Byron January 31, 1821 For several days I have not written any thing except a few answers to letters. In momentary...
Friday, January 30, 2009

ça ira!

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From the Journals of Lord Byron January 30, 1821. The Count P. G. this evening (by commission from the Ci.) transmitted to me the new words ...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

trust on, and think to-morrow will repay

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From the Journals of Lord Byron: January 29, 1821. Yesterday, the woman of ninety-five years of age was with me. She said her eldest son (if...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

the feeling of a former world and future

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From the Journals of Lord Byron January 28, 1821. Lugano Gazette did not come. Letters from Venice. It appears that the Austrian brutes have...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

things a little pleasanter in Italy than England

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There is no journal entry for January 27, 1821. He did write a letter that day, to his publisher, John Murray . LETTER 410. TO MR. MURRAY...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

when this hand that writes is as cold as the hearts which have stung me

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From the Journals of Lord Byron January 26. 1821. Fine day — a few mares' tails portending change, but the sky clear, upon the whole. Ro...

which is best, life or death, the gods only know

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From the Journals of Lord Byron January 25. 1821. Received a letter from Lord S.O. state secretary of the Seven Islands — a fine fellow — cl...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

snivelling, popping, small-shot, water-hen waste of powder, ammunition, and shot

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Journals of Lord Byron January 24. 1821. Returned — met some masques in the Corso — 'Vive la bagatelle!' — the Germans are on the Po...