-- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach . . .from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)"我是怎样的爱你，请让我细数端详。我爱你爱到心灵深处，之深之广只有灵魂才能触摸"，...
"As Maria, I get to tame him," says actress Alexandra Gilbreath of her role as Petruchio's wife in The Tamer Tamed, a play by John Fletcher written in Shakespeare's own lifetime, in response to his The Taming of the Shrew. "Can you imagine? You've got this extraordinary, great ...
Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. As You Like It (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [16] (Oxford Standard Authors ed.) Under the greenwood treeWho loves to lie with me. As You Like It (1599) act...
a monkey bashing randomly on a typewriter could produce all the works of Shakespeare; it would not be hard to imagine how improbable this is; instead tell a monkey to write one line could be determined using probability; it would take a long time; as with life, in order to get ornate ...
But then God on Valentine’s Day sovereignly brought the other French teacher across my path as I was walking to the copy room. Elaine stopped me and announced, “Maria, you are just going to have to go back to the text book next year. Your students are not coming to me adequately ...
We have seen better days. —William Shakespeare 77 Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. —Charles J. Givens 71 You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. ...
* The King and the Duke produce really bad Shakespeare, but it's okay because this town is not very cultured* A man named Boggs insults another man named Sherburn, who kills him* The townspeople are shocked, and decide to lynch SherburnChapter 22* The townspeople confront Sherburn, who ...
“Aye, there’s the rub” (to quote Shakespeare). It’s difficult to be consistent. In that post, I suggested that you create a weekly schedule that you can keep up with (and because that weekly schedule can repeat, you easily have a monthly schedule). I said that perhaps on Monday ...
Just as I would study Poetry or Shakespeare for an exam, mechanically I would commit to memory many of the popular verses but not pondered much on their meaning. I was a new Christian and I was young and inexperienced in life. In later years I was led to study more theologically ...
One Mississippi. Two Mississippi…I count silently until I reach Twenty Mississippi and scoot again. I can’t be sure if he’s nearby. If he is, deep in the marrow of my bones, I know the kinds of things that await me. I know what evil men can do. I’ve seen it. Experienced it...