Provost John Will find that his Swans are but Geese. All of these epigrams survive in the transcript of John Syme of Ryedale, a distributor of stamps, and one of Burns’s friends. The third and ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. The editors extract from the Palatine Anthology such epigrams as can be assumed to ...

He was the victim of a severe lampooning in Burns’s third Election Ballad, ‘John Bushby’s Lamentation’, in addition to these epigrams. However, Burns perhaps treated the Earl more savagely ...

Night Journey is the English-language debut of the work that... Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology Translated by Daryl Hine Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular ...

To critics this seems like self-indulgence, but to his audiences it seems like generosity and authenticity, the candidate’s real thoughts rather than the speechwriter’s epigrams that signpost ...

Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the ...

Images can also increase the size of email inboxes exponentially. Refrain from the use of quotes or epigrams for professional communications. While these may reflect your personal views, they may not ...

Dorothy Parker was one of the great transients of American literary history, yet she remains more permanent than most writers ...

Located in Linji Village south of the county town of Zhengding, the pagoda is also called the Grey Pagoda because it was built of gray bricks. Linji Temple is an ancient temple built in 540 during ...

I am a fan of Alfred Lansing’s Endurance, describing Sir Ernest Shackleton’s trans-Antarctic expedition gone terribly wrong and the leadership he demonstrated to save his crew against incredible odds.

Not a very good book. And not, alas, a very wicked book. There will always be, you know, countless carefully carved epigrams, strung on the silvered threads of old situations. There will be ...

They tell her how good she is and Mae is courteous, amused, always optimistic, glad to see everyone, dropping fairly good, though somewhat trite, epigrams, peppered with bad grammar and made ...