ESSEX STILE. A ditch; a great part of Essex is low marshy ground, in which there are more ditches than Stiles.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CONSCIENCE KEEPER. A superior, who by his influence makes his dependants act as he pleases.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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“I was born in 1962. There’s been an environmental crisis for as long as I’ve lived. To step outside that constant culpability was one of the many delights of RING OF BRIGHT WATER.”
—Kathleen Jamie in the London Review of Books on Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969) – born #OTD, 15 July
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n14/kathleen-jamie/diary
LADY CAPULET: O me! This sight of death is as a bell
That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
— Romeo and Juliet, V, iii
The Brilliance and Privilege of Jane Austen and Julia Margaret Cameron
It is crucial to grapple with the colonial structures that helped sustain the lives and work of the two 19th-century contemporaries, both celebrated as feminist heroines.
By Alexandra M. Thomas
Jane Austen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68
From the Ashes to the Dustbin: The Making and Un-Making of a Personal Library
Peter Wortsman on the Ever-Difficult Task of Saving and Discarding Beloved Books
https://lithub.com/from-the-ashes-to-the-dustbin-the-making-and-un-making-of-a-personal-library/
Personal library at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=personal+library
An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland by Bernard Sleigh, 1920
If you believe in fairies, this ancient map and guide will help you know them and find them
By Paul Sorene
Fairyland at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/37291
Book recommendations?
I’m interested in stories on wanderers, drifters, searchers, travellers. Do you know a good one?
BRITISH CHAMPAIGNE. Porter.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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I think the concept of an entire work of #literature being written on the body hasn’t really been properly developed… prayers or commands or wishes written on skin that disappear & morph with touch or heat or sweat or alkali levels…. Living, breathing #poetry etc
COG. A tooth. A queer cog; a rotten tooth. How the cull flashes his queer cogs; how the fool shews his rotten teeth.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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This song is about #Karma in both #Hindi & #English and #Nichiren #NichirenShoshu #NichirenDaishonin #TrueBuddhism #TheLaw #Causality #Causeandeffect #conciousness #spiritualism #Beautiful #nature #literature #Follow #tantra #Orlando #style #travel #repostlove #Peace #beachlife #instalike #realitychallenge
https://open.spotify.com/track/02yyPQXRrZoTK0DFY2n36m?si=RB4YD4orS_SKSDeUoL4rhg
"Why read at all? Why does anyone do it in the first place?"
Patrick deWitt ventures an answer in his novel The Librarianist
“Regardless of its provenance & authorship, ‘The Tree of Liberty’ openly relies on Burns the writer & national icon for its effectiveness…”
—Corey Andrews, “Radical Attribution: Robert Burns & ‘The Liberty Tree’”
Studies in Scottish Literature 41/1, 2015
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Robbie Coltrane reads “The Tree of Liberty” on BBC Sounds:
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Heard ye o’ the tree o’ France,
I watna what’s the name o’t;
Around it a’ the patriots dance,
Weel Europe kens the fame o’t…
—“The Tree of Liberty”, attributed to Robert Burns (though this is disputed). First published in Chambers’ THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS (1838), “from a MS. in the possession of Mr James Duncan, Mosesfield, near Glasgow.”
A poem for Bastille Day
Text available here:
https://www.rbwf.org.uk/poems/the-tree-of-liberty
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GLOUCESTER: Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
— Richard III, I, i
LAZY MAN'S LOAD. Lazy people frequently take up more than they can safely carry, to save the trouble of coming a second time.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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https://www.europesays.com/us/63370/ What Do We Do With Art Made by Immoral Artists? #art #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Christianity #Design #Entertainment #Literature #Music #Opinion #SexualAssault #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US
PRISCIAN. To break Priscian's head; to write or speak false grammar. Priscian was a famous grammarian, who flourished at Constantinople in the year 525; so devoted to his favourite study that to speak false Latin in his company, was as disagreeable to him as to break his head.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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