Catherine Eisner
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Milton
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Showing posts with label
Milton
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Friday, 18 October 2019
O Fruit of that Forbidden Tree whose Mortal Taste Brought All Our Woe . . .
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. . . or did they misunderstand and neither heard the rattle of a serpentine warning when Eve thrust the apple into Adam’s ha...
Thursday, 31 May 2018
That space the Evil One abstracted . . . and attention gained with forked tongue . . .
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This morning I was awakened by the ‘tsk-tsk!’ of a stonechat. In Provence or thereabouts they call the bird Le Tarier pâtre (the Shepherd...
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Quod dei deo, quod Caesaris Caesari.
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Since Death these days is on everyone’s lips, we pledge ourselves to His buyers’ market; ...
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Great Dictators: Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Barbara Cartland, Edgar Wallace and Co.
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I have often thought that there must exist any number of recordings gathering dust made by those ‘great dictators’, the famous novelists o...
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