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'But ships are but boards, sailors but men. There be land rats and water rats, water thieves and land thieves—I mean pirates—and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.'
-The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare

🎨Thomas Moran

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2021-09-18

game

You spend an enchantingly disenchanted day in the big city. Show us your wardrobe, your route through the city, where you eat lunch and who you meet

"Good Puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub." https://t.co/QeSlKRhtBK

2 15
2021-09-11

Ok! I want to do more classic literary art on my 😁
So if anyone has a favorite classic character or quote they want to me to recreate in or just comment it below!!

2 3
2021-09-08

Some one came knocking
At my wee, small door; ...
But nought there was a-stirring
In the still dark night;
Only the busy beetle
Tap-tapping in the wall,
Only from the forest
The screech-owl’s call ...
—Walter de la Mare

7 20
2021-09-06

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” (Charles Baudelaire)

🖼️ Carlos Schwabe

5 36
2021-09-04

"For she had no sort of objection to turning her back upon so dismal an abode, and she would have been heartily glad never to have set foot in the inside any more."

The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey, ca 1797
by 'Mrs. Carver'

2 12
2021-08-28

"I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat"
Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, 1814,"Carmilla"🎨Yana Moskaluk

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2021-08-28

Let Scots, while Scots, praise Hardyknute,
Let Norse the name ay dread,
Ay how he faught, aft how he spar'd,
Shall latest ages read.

Hardyknute, (attributed to)
Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw, (1719)
🎨Wilson Alexander, (1790)
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7 21
2021-08-21



"I long woo'd your daughter, my suit you denied; --
Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide --
And now I am come, with this lost love of mine,
To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine.”
—Lochinvar, Sir Walter Scott.

🎨 James E McConnell.

4 16
2021-08-21

Pink, small, and punctual,
Aromatic, low,
Covert in April,
Candid in May,
Dear to the moss,
Known by the knoll,
Next to the robin
In every human soul.
Bold little beauty,
Bedecked with thee,
Nature forswears
Antiquity.
~ May Flower. Emily Dickinson

3 18
2021-08-15

game time

You're a nature poet! Show us who you are, where you live, your enemy in the wild and how you chased it away! QT with your answer!

"I love not man the less, but Nature more” https://t.co/0kfdZK7BXj

2 21
2021-08-14

"Now put me into the barge, said the king. For I will into the vale of Avilion, to heal me of my grievous wound. And if thou hear never more of me, pray for my soul."

- Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory

2 13
2021-08-07

"And near Merlin stood the Lady of the Lake,
Who knows a subtler magic than his own,
Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful.
She gave the King his huge cross-hilted sword,
Whereby to drive the heathen out."

- Idylls of the King

5 25
2021-08-07

'Then murmur'd Arthur,"Place me in the barge,"
And to the barge they came. There those three Queens
Put forth their hands, and took the King, and wept.'
-Lord Tennyson

is ready for your tweets! This week's optional theme: Arthurian literature!

🎨James Archer

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2021-08-07

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!

—Robert Burns (1785) 🐁

✨

9 22
2021-07-24


"Swith! in some beggar's haffet squattle; There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle, Wi' ither kindred, jumping cattle, In shoals and nations; Whaur horn nor bane ne'er daur unsettle Your thick plantations."
To a Louse
Robert Burns

4 20
2021-07-24

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more” (Lord Byron)



🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, 1824

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2021-07-24

'All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.'
- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Thank you for all your magical fantasy tweets! Have a wonderful bookish week and will be back next Saturday!

🎨Arthur Rackham

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2021-07-18