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Leonard Baskin 2000 Deaths
Leonard BaskinAge: 77 figurative sculptor and graphic artist known for his work that conveyed a sense of urgency and drama. Mortality was a common theme in his art, and he created a bas…John Keats: On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
On a Leander Gem Which a Young...On Sitting Down to Read King L...On Seeing the Elgin Marbles My spirit is too weak—mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined…John Keats: Written in the Cottage Where Burns was Born
Why did I laugh to-night? No v...Written in the Cottage Where Burns was Born This mortal body of a thousand days Now fills, O Burns, a space in thine own room, Where thou didst dream alone…William Shakespeare: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'dWhen I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd, And brass…William Shakespeare: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
Was it the proud full sail of his great verseWas it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making…Walt Whitman: Old War-Dreams
Old War-DreamsIn midnight sleep of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable look,) Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Manners
MannersGrace, Beauty and Caprice Build this golden portal; Graceful women, chosen men, Dazzle every mortal. Their sweet and lofty countenance His enchanted food; He need not go to them, their…Aesop's Fables: The Stag with One Eye
by Aesop The Crow and the SwanThe Fly and the Draught-MuleThe Stag with One Eye A Stag, blind of one eye, was grazing close to the sea-shore and kept his sound eye turned towards the land…La Traviata <br/>(The Fallen Woman)
Music:Giuseppe VerdiLibretto:Francesco Maria Piave, based on Alexandre Dumas's La Dame aux CaméliasPremiere:Venice, March 6, 1853 La Traviata created an outrage with its sympathetic portrayal…Eliakim SHERRILL, Congress, NY (1813-1863)
SHERRILL Eliakim , a Representative from New York; born in Greenville, Ulster County, N.Y., February 16, 1813; attended the public schools; tanner and farmer; held several local offices; major…Trending
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