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banished and vanished
Augustus the Imperator. When you have a standing army of 300,000 men you can call yourself just about anything and people will agree with you. In 2 B.C. he had been given the title pater patriae, Father of the Nation, … Continue reading
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the living clocks: navigation by the sun
Does the season go off inside of us, like a ringing in the blood? People have always associated the burgeoning of spring with the coming of warmer weather; the spring warmth, we feel, has roused the earth from dormancy. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Diego Velazquez, Edmund Spenser, gustav kramer, harry allard, James Thurber, Jan Brueghel, jan brueghel the elder, philip Stubbs, Sandro Botticelli, wightman garner
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for, sooth to say,…it was no sort of life
He was one of the “new men” who rose and fell by their wits; Spencer’s work and life a reflection of the splendors and miseries of his time. “The Elizabethan conception of world-order was in its outlines medieval although it … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Chris Thorns, Edmund Spenser, Hercule Francois, Hercule Francois Duc D'Alencon, Hilliard portraits, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Norman Davies, Robert Dudley, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Steven Pinker
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spenser and the poetry of opposites
Herbert Spenser’s achievement in “The Faerie Queene” was to embody the great antitheses of the Elizabethan era: both the magnanimity and grace of the age that inspired poets and sent adventurers around the world, and the frantic cruelty that degraded … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund Spenser, Elisabethan Age, Gheeraerts the Younger, John Dowland, Robert Peake, Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Unton, Sir Walter Raleigh, The faerie Queene
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BLONDE AMBITION & SEDITION: THE WHITE VEIL
The woman’s legs seemed to go on forever. It was hard to tell exactly whom they belonged to, or what she was thinking, but their purpose was clear, dominating a billboard for a new condo…. drawing the eyes of admirers … Continue reading
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