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'Monday, August 1st, 1814 dawned with fingers of pale light chasing away the mist. It dazzled the panes of town house and tavern and tinselled the finials of St. Mary-le-Bow.'
Church Bells, Fireworks and The Glorious Peace https://t.co/FnjZh4SO73 < #Regency #histfic #OTD
'In aerial latitudes
and the silent margins
of heat and cold,
day and clairvoyant dusk,
the mirage shimmers
above our wilderness,
evoking plangent echoes
of something lost and longed for...' https://t.co/TFRn0HaiAF < #poem #art David Roberts
Magdalene's Reflection https://t.co/juKEnG44VB
'...We'd sought the streets, the hills and vales
to find our soul's desire
the bridegroom who would stake True Love
no thought of Holy Fire...'
Feast of #StMaryMagdalene #July22nd #poem
The Guitarist's Lament https://t.co/tSRTX7BT67 <
'I’ve bought a guitar
It’s a stranger to me
I’m a stranger to it
But we’ll see what we see
I’m chorded and worded
At least in my head
But the darn thing plays up
And it fills me with dread...' #poem #humour #poetrycommunity
A Woman Scorned https://t.co/L8aupRDwCf < A bitter governess thinks she is privy to dark and incriminating secrets... #BerkeleySeries #GeorgianEra #causecelebre
'For, heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love but on the stage.'
Was Dryden’s wisdom to be trusted?
A Formidable Adversary https://t.co/Sypyt6wH2f < #BerkeleySeries #GeorgianEra #duel
Born May 22nd, 1844, Mary Cassatt #American #Impressionist painter, friend of #Degas #OTD
"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life."
The Memory Of A Lullaby https://t.co/Hd47MfVOLy < #archive
#OnThisDay 1796, #EdwardJenner administered the first smallpox #vaccination at #Berkeley #Gloucestershire
Holding Their Breath https://t.co/jHuNxOErPv < #histmed #BerkeleySeries #GeorgianEra
Eloquence Under A Threadbare Cloak https://t.co/P2HdtJsvPu Billy Cole (alias Tudor) argues with his wife about the disputed dates of his sister's legal marriage and his part in a criminal stratagem... #GeorgianEra #causecelebre #histfic #BerkeleySeries
The Highwayman And The Heretic https://t.co/SKxKCM4ljQ
'Fred was born in the month of Maying and something of a May Day air lingered about his psyche. The public imagination was as equally fired by pastoral antiquity...'
#the5senses #18thC #art and #prose