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Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg
No full textAutograph letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Transcriptions included.My dearest friend
Direct to the Edinburgh post office my own name. I passed tonight with the mail Harriet is with me . . . we are in a slight pecuniary distress. We shall have seventy-five £ on Sunday until when can you send 10£ . . divide it in two [flourish]
Yours
Percy Shelle
Henry Percy, first earl of Northumberland: ambition, conflict and cooperation in late mediaeval England
No full textThis thesis examines the political career of Henry Percy, 1st earl of
Northumberland. Chapter one examines the background of the Percy
family, and Henry Percy's career in the years leading to his elevation to
the earldom of Northumberland. Chapter two considers his
relationships with John of Gaunt and the Neville family both at times of
crisis and during times of relative stability. It also examines his
relationship with the wider political community in the north of England
and his role on the Scottish border during the late fourteenth century.
Chapter three focuses on the turbulent years of 1399-1403. It offers
new interpretations of Percy's participation in the revolution of 1399
and in the events leading to the 1403 rebellion led by his son Henry
'Hotspur'. Chapter four traces the final years of Percy's life from 1404-8.
It re-interprets the events leading to his flight to Scotland in 1405, his
years there, in Wales and on the continent and his final, fatal return to
England in 1408
Rock Me to Sleep Mother
No full text80.7568.1046 – “Rock Me to Sleep Mother”: John H. Hewitt: Florence Percy: John C. Schreiner & Son: 1863: Voice
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Percy Jackson’s visit to Lotus Hotel, viewed through a Homeric lens
No full textAs I was reading through the first volume of Rick Riordan’s five-volume series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Lightning Thief (2005), the story that is told there about a visit to “Lotus Hotel” by Percy and his companions Annabeth and Grover (pages 257–265) made me think of the passage in the Homeric Odyssey, Rhapsody 9 verses 82–104, where Odysseus and his companions visit the Land of the Lotus-Eaters. I am sure that countless readers before me have thought what I am thinking about the story told by Rick. What we see here is a deft retelling of the story of Odysseus and the Lotus-Eaters. In both versions of the story, let’s call them Homer’s version and Rick’s version, there is a pleasurable forgetting of the present, and this forgetfulness leads to the danger of eternally postponing the future. But I have something to add here about this Odyssean story, viewed through a Homeric lens. That something is a detail in Rick’s retelling that made me rethink the original passage in the Odyssey. What caught my eye in Rick’s version of the story was his perceptive highlighting of visual pleasures— like the sweet delights of video-games. I see a comparable highlighting in the picture that I show here as the main illustration for my essay. In this picture, we see an art-seller who is selling the beauty of his art to beautiful people who are forgetting about their own beauty. As we will see, such forgetfulness is at the core of the Homeric story about Odysseus and the Lotus-Eaters.The ClassicsVersion of Recor
Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg
No full textAutograph letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Written from Tanyralt [Tan-yr-Allt, Wales]. Transcriptions included.Tanyralt. . . . Dec. 27. 1812.
My dear Friend
Your letter to Harriet contains some hints of the possibility of your being at leisure in a short time. I sincerely hope that your schemes would allow a visit to Tanyralt. The advantage of a mail within 17 miles would entirely obviate any trouble in the affair. – We all anxiously wish you wd. Come, & hope that your hint was something better than a mere lure for the opportunity of refusal. – We are all surprised at the complaints of cold which issue from London. For a day or two indeed it bit a little in the first of the morning, but nothing more.
Believe me that I sympathise in your feelings on Buonaparte & Peace very warmly. Buonaparte is a personage to whom I have a very great objection. He is to me a hateful & despicable being. He is seduced by the grossest & most vulgar ambition into actions which only differ from those of pirates by virtue of the number of men & the variety of resources under his command. – His talents appear to me altogether contemptible & common place; incapable as he is of comparing connectedly the most obvious propositions; or relishing any pleasure truly enrapturing. – Excepting Lord Castlereagh you could not have mentioned any character but Buonaparte whom I contemn & abhor more vehe [p. 2] mently . . With respect to these victories in the North, if they tend towards Peace they are good . . . . . if otherwise they are bad. – This is the standard by which I shall ultimately measure my approbation of them. – At the same time I cannot but say that the first impression which they made on me, was one of horror & regret. –
Brougham’s defense was certainly not so good as it might have been; was denied him. He could neither [deleted] not speak treason, he could not commit a libel. & therefore his client was not to be defended on the basis of moral truth . . . . He was compelled to hesitate when truth was rising to his lips; he could utter that which he did utter only circumlocution & irony. – The Sol. Gen’s speech appeared to me the consummation of all shameless insolence. & the address of Ld Ellenborough, so barefaced a piece of timeservingness, that Im sure his heart must have laughed at his lips as he pronounced it.
I have as yet received no answer from the Duke of Norfolk. – I scarcely expect one. – I do not see that it is the interest of my Father to come to terms during my nonage, perhaps even not after. – Do you know I cannot prevail upon myself to care much about it. – Harriet is very happy as we are, & I am very happy; -- I question if intimacy with my [p. 3] relations would add at all to our tranquillity. – They would be plotting & playing the Devil, or shewing us to some people who would do so: -- or they would bore & be dull. Or they wd. Take stupid likes or dislikes, & they certainly might cramp the liberty of our movements. – In fact, I have written to the duke. I can say to my Conscience “I have done my best” but I shall not be very unhappy if I fail. –
I continue vegetable. Harriet means to be slightly animal until the arrival of Spring. – My health is much improved by it. tho partly perhaps by my removal from your nerve racking & spirit quelling metropolis.
We are divided between two opinions. Whether you really will allow us the heartfelt pleasure of seeing you here this winter; or whether your suggestion was a quiz.
My dear friend
I remain
Yours very affectionately
Percy B Shelley
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The Story of "Me" Contemporary American Autofiction
No full textCover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness -- 2. Rage against the Dying of the Author -- 3. The New Journalism as the New Fiction -- 4. Trauma Autofiction, Dissociation, and the Authenticity of "Real" Experience -- 5. Memoir vs. Autofiction as the Story of Me vs. the Story of "Me" -- Coda -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voicemusic same as Box 94 Item 84Music is duplicated in 094.084.Cover is duplicated in 094.086.
Music is duplicated in 094.086.Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
094, Item 085Words by Florence Percy. Music by John H. Hewitt
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voicemusic same as Box 94 Item 84Music is duplicated in 094.084.Cover is duplicated in 094.086.
Music is duplicated in 094.086.Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
094, Item 085Words by Florence Percy. Music by John H. Hewitt
Indigenising the Curriculum; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Heritage
No full textIt hit me like a bomb. We are Indigenising the curriculum, and that's that. I have to attend Indigenous cultural awareness training. But I have Aboriginal heritage from my maternal grandmothers. I've just never identified as Aboriginal. Until now
Methylation of the 5' flanking sequences of the ribosomal DNA in human cell lines and in a human-hamster hybrid cell line
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