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Willa McCord Blake ESLICK, Congress, TN (1878-1961)
ESLICK Willa McCord Blake , a Representative from Tennessee; born in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., September 8, 1878; attended private schools; attended Dick White College and Milton…Harrison Gray Otis BLAKE, Congress, OH (1818-1876)
BLAKE Harrison Gray Otis , a Representative from Ohio; born in Newfane, Windham County, Vt., March 17, 1818; moved to Salem, N.Y., and in 1830 to Guilford, Medina County, Ohio; attended the…Rossi, Aldo
(Encyclopedia) Rossi, AldoRossi, Aldoälˈdō rôsˈsē [key], 1931–97, Italian architectb. Milan; grad. Milan Polytechnic (1959). He began working for the design magazine Casabella-Continuità in 1954 and…Pritchett, V. S.
(Encyclopedia) Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon Pritchett)Pritchett, V. S.prĭchˈĭt [key], 1900–1997, British writer, b. Ipswich. Largely self-educated, he was a distinguished and prolific man of…Nathan, George Jean
(Encyclopedia) Nathan, George Jean, 1882–1958, American editor and drama critic, b. Fort Wayne, Ind. He left the New York Herald to join H. L. Mencken in editing Smart Set (1914–23), which they made…Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth
(Encyclopedia) Vigée-Lebrun, ÉlisabethVigée-Lebrun, Élisabethālēzäbĕtˈ vēzhāˈ-ləbröNˈ [key], 1755–1842, French portrait painter; pupil of her father, the painter Louis Vigée. She was influenced by…William Shakespeare: Or I shall live your epitaph to make
Or I shall live your epitaph to makeOr I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive when I in earth am rotten; From hence your memory death cannot take, Although in me each part will be…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I lived with visions for my company
I lived with visions for my companyI lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played…Walt Whitman: I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak GrowingI saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous of…A. E. Housman: When I watch the living meet,
When I watch the living meet, And the moving pageant file Warm and breathing through the street Where I lodge a little while,If the heats of hate and lust In the house of flesh are strong…Trending
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