You are here: Home / english history Just want to put something up so that WordPress will not be disappointed in me for breaking my however many day streak. Doing a spot of research on George Eliot today and came across this: There is a heaviness of melancholy vaguely perceptible in the minor tones of all her works; to one familiar with
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From March 2019. The McChoakumchild school was all fact, and the school of design was all fact, and the relations between master and man were all fact, and everything was fact between the lying-in hospital and the cemetery, and what you couldn’t state in figures, or show to be purchasable in the cheapest market and
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Was searching around the blog’s November entries to find something other than leftover turkey recipes to post and found this. A lot can happen Published on November 21, 2014 I thought it might be a hoot to spend some time reading about the years leading up to the first Thanksgiving from the perspective of folks on
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very English in appearance…” There is a fellow on Gab who posts a daily Project Gutenberg Release notes to the Old Books group. This one naturally caught my eye (orig. published 1899). It is a bibliography, with many annotated entries. Church, by the way, also wrote The Iliad for Boys and Girls (1907) that we
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Apologies if you thought you saw this in your reader and then it disappeared. I had forgotten all about that book.
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It’s perfect, don’t you think? Love the falling book. It happens. I believe I shall begin skimming through this abridged version. Should be fun.
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I don’t normally do GDRs on the weekend but because of the glorious weather, I am making an exception. One of the readings for today is the poem “Autumn” by Thomas Hood. I liked it– it made me smile. We’ve talked about Hood before. He wrote The Song of the Shirt, remember? It was written
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Today in the year 1700 James Thomson was born. Daily Reading September 11 Rule Britannia [bit of history; scroll down for the lyrics] Collin’s On the Death of Thomson Lowell’s A Winter Ride MacKaye’s The Automobile FYI: I’m sure you expected as much. The Automobile Fluid the world flowed under us: the hills Billow on billow
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Today we turned the page on a new week at our Pocket University Guide to Daily Reading in 1922. The desire to have many books, and never use them, is like a child that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping. Henry Peacham Interesting… . That infallible source: Henry
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Today in the year 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert drowned. That infallible source: Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583)[1] of Compton in the parish of Marldon and of Greenway in the parish of Churston Ferrers,[2] both in Devon, England, was an adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North
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On this day in 1886 Siegfried Sassoon was born. Siegfried. That’s a name you don’t hear much anymore. From that infallible source: Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front,[1] he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His
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On this day in history nothing happened. Nothing. The editors of The Pocket University Guide to Daily Reading (1925) made some curious choices. This one is a doozy. Queen Elizabeth– the original– was born on September 7 in the year 1533. Anniversaries and Holidays: A Calendar of Days and How to Observe Them (1928) directs
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I am giving the joint a thorough going over, which means I often find myself sitting on the floor looking through a crappy old book I haven’t look at in a while. English Farming: Past and Present (1922) was a gift from Daughter C and Miss M years ago. It has a prominent place in
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In this day in 1868, Robert Falcon Scott was born. Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions that would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surly, surly, a great
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On this day in 1882, John Drinkwater was born. On this day in the year 1793, Henry Francis Lyte was born. On this day in 1598, Christopher Marlowe was killed in a street brawl. I told you last week there were big things coming up and here you go. Killed in a street brawl. That
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Born this day in 1799, Thomas Hood. An English social protest poet, though one mention I came across yesterday (when I began this) said he wasn’t political. Can’t remember which one. Daily Readings May 23 “Flowers“ “I Remember, I remember“ “The Song of the Shirt“ “The Bridge of Sighs“ “The Dream of Eugene Aram“ “The
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Nothing happened today. Or did it? From today’s “American History Parade” in The American Patriot’s Almanac (2008)… 1792: The New York Stock Exchange is founded by 24 brokers under a buttonwood drive on what is now Wall Street 1875: Arisrides, ridden by Oliver Lewis, wins the first Kentucky Derby 1877: Alexander Graham Bell answers the
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Today we turn the page in our Pocket University Guide to Daily Reading (1925). Learn to be good readers– which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in.
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I always took delight in learning, teaching, and writing. I love little adventures such as this. Follow along… . Fellow blogger– and friend– Andy has been doing a lot of reading and so, naturally I made some recommendations, including Bede. But I mispelled Bede as “Bebe (sp?)”. I suspect my brain was thinking of Bebe
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Born today in the year 1599, Oliver Cromwell Born today in the year 1792, John Keble Daily Readings 4/25 Marvell’s “Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland“ Milton’s “To the Lord General Cromwell” [Interesting commentary on the times and the poem here.] “Morning” [Keble] “Evening“ Thomas Carlyle, in his Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches with Elucidations (1845),
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