the GARDEN path
Art Neuendorffer
Mabillard, Amanda. "Shakespeare of Stratford." Shakespeare Online. 2000.
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/index.html
Between William Shakespeare, complainant, and William Underhill,
deforciant [wrongful occupier, supposed by the legal fiction on which
the fine method of transfer was based to be keeping the complainant out
of his rightful property], concerning one dwelling house, two barns, and
two GARDENs with their appurtenances in Stratford-on-Avon, in regard to
which a plea of agreement was broached in the same court: Namely, that
the said William Underhill acknowledged the said tenements with their
appurtenances to be the right of W. Shakespeare as being those which the
same William Shakespeare has by gift of the said W. U., and remitted and
waived claim to them from himself and his heirs to the said W.S. and his
heirs forever....and agreement the same W.S. has given the foresaid
W./U. sixty pounds sterling. (Brooke 21)
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"SHAKESPEARE." LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia.
http://91.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SH/SHAKESPEARE.htm
In 1597 Shakespeare made an important purchase for 60 of the
house and GARDENs of New Place in Chapel Street.
In 1602 he took, at a rent of 2S. 6d. a year, a copyhold
cottage in Chapel Lane, perhaps for the use of his GARDENER. In the same
year he invested 320 In the purchase of an estate consisting of 107 acres in
the open fields of Old Stratford, together with a farm-house, GARDEN and
orchard, 20 acres of pasture and common rights; and in 1605 he spent
another 440 in the outstanding term of a lease of certain great tithes
in Stratford parish, which brought in an income of about 60 a year.
About 1610 Shakespeare seems to have left London, and entered upon the
definite occupation of his house at New Place, Stratford. Here he lived the
life of a retired ~ gentleman, on friendly if satiricaJ terms with the
richest of his neighbors, the Combes, and interested in local affairs, such
as a bill for the improvement of the highways in 1611, or a proposed
enclosure of the open fields at Welcombe in 1614, which might affect his
income or his comfort. He had his GARDEN with its mulberry-tree,
and his farm in the immediate neighborhood.
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<<An existing copy of the Latin 'fine' of May 4, 1597 assigns to
Shakspere a MESSUAGE with two barns & *2 GARDENs* . William
UNDERHILL, who lived part of the year at Idlicote, was a Catholic
recusant who appeared to Stephen Burman to be 'CRAFTY'.
Two months after the sale, UNDERHILL was killed by HIS SON FULKe,
then a legal minor, to whom he had orally bequeathed his lands.
UNDERHILL died at Fillongley near Coventry on July 7, 1597.
As a result, New Place was forfeited to the state for felony,
and FULKe was hanged for murder in 1599. The crime kept his right
to the house insecure until the victim's 2nd son Hercules
UNDERHILL came of age in 1602.>> -P. Honan
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SAINT CLEMENT (about 838-916) was the eldest disciple of Cyrill and
Methodius. According to his hagiology, he had worked together with them
on the translation of the Bible and other liturgical texts. Not long
after his return to Bulgaria, in 886-887 Tsar Boris I sent him in the
Ohrid district, Macedonia. Here he baptized children, wrote lectures
and sermons, taught the native people to cultivate their GARDENs,
cured the sick, built churches and monasteries, for a period of
seven years educated 3500 children in reading and writing.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James
Rain was falling on the chapel, on the GARDEN, on the college.
It would rain for EVER, noiselessly.
The water would rise inch by inch, cOVERing the grass and shrubs,
cOVERing the trees and houses, cOVERing the MONUMENTS and
the mountain tops. All life would be choked off, noiselessly: birds, men,
elephants, pigs, children: noiselessly floating corpses amid the litter of
the wreckage of the world. forty days and forty nights the rain
would fall till the waters cOVEREd the face of the earth.
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Portuguese VERDe (crude, unseasoned, vert), VERDura
(GARDEN-stuff, GREENery, GREENness, VERDancy, VERDure, viridity).
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_Susan Vere, William Jaggard and the 1623 Shakespeare Folio_
by Roger Stritmatter (©1998)
http://www.everreader.com/1619dedi.htm
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<< [Jaggard's 1619] ARXAIO-PLOUTOS. . . Containing,
Ten following Bookes to the former TREASURIE of
AUNCIENT AND MODERN TIMES to Phillip Montgomery and
to Montgomery's wife, the Lady Susan Vere.
As alfo, To the truly vertuous and Noble Counteffe his Wife,
the Lady Sufan, Daughter to the right Honourable Edward Vere,
Earle of Oxen-ford, Vifcount Bulbec, Lord Sandford and
of Badelefmere : and Lord High Chamberlaine of England, etc.
In this GARDEN, Jaggard assures Lady Vere,
...you may meete with a faire Bevey of Queenes and Ladies, at
diverse turnings as you walke, and everie one will tell you the Historie
of her life and fortune (rare examples of VERTUE and Honor) as
themselves can best, truly & plainly discourse unto you. Some other also
you shall see, sadly sitting under Eughe & Cipresse tress, with Garlands
of those leaves wreathed about their heads, sighing out their diVERs
disasters: whom your noble nature cannot choose but commiserate;
as greeving to see a scratch in a cleare skin, and a bodie
beautified by Nature, to be blemished by unkinde Destiny.>>
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Terry Ross wrote:
<<Harvey does NOT tell us that Pierce is going to write a work about
Adonis; he says, "the other to blossome in M. Pierce Pennilesse, as
in the rich GARDEN of pore Adonis:" -- the "other" being the finest
display of wit in the English language. Spenser's GARDEN(s)
of Adonis is a place of miraculous and sudden growth:
Ne needs there GARDINer to set, or sow,
To plant or prune: for of their owne accord
All things, as they created were, doe grow, [*FQ* 3.6.34.1-3]
Yet all that grows in the GARDEN is subject to Time:
For formes are variable and decay,
By course of kind, and by occasion;
And that faire flowre of beautie fades away,
As doth the LILLY fresh before the sunny ray.
Great enimy to it, and to all the rest,
That in the GARDIN of Adonis springs,
Is wicked Time [re(a)d beetle], who with his scyth addrest,
Does mow the flowring herbes and goodly things,
And all their glory to the ground downe flings,
Where they doe wither, and are fowly mard:
He flyes about, and with his flaggy wings
Beates downe both leaues and buds without regard,
Ne euer pittie may relent his malice hard.
[*FQ* 3.6.38.6-9 - 39.1-9]>>
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http://195.167.241.43/globe/education/distancelearning/distancelearni...
<<The date of this lease perhaps sets a terminus a quo for the
construction of the Globe. Wallace believed he could determine a
terminus ad quem from documentary evidence of a post mortem inquisition
on the estate of the lessor's father, Thomas Brend, held on 16 May 1599.
This cited the deceased's interest in
"una domo de novo edificata cum GARDINO
. . . in occupacione Willielmi Shakespeare et aliorum"
(" *an house newly built with GARDEN attached*
. . . in the occupation of William Shakespeare & others")>>
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Here are most of the records related to John Shakespeare:
1556 - purchased an estate with GARDEN and croft
in GREENhill street
1556 - purchased a house with GARDEN in Henley street.
1575 - Bought two houses with GARDEN & orchard for 40 pounds
1582 - Petitioned for sureties of the peace against 4 men,
one of whom was the bailiff, for 'fear of death
and mutilation of his limbs'. This may or may not
have had something to do with his financial troubles.
[Oxford 32 years old]
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[William Shakespeare 32 years old]
<<In November 1596 William Wayte, stepson of a Bankside justice of
the peace, William GARDINer, petitioned for sureties of the peace
against William Shakespeare, Francis Langley (builder and owner
of the new Swan theatre in Southwark) and their two women
associates, Dorothy Soer & Ann Lee, 'for fear of death'; and
on 29 November 1596 a Writ of Attachment was issued to the
Sheriff of Surrey to enforce them to keep the peace.>>
http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/essays/essay-ws-life.html
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King Henry V (Folio) Act 2, Scene 4
Const.: As GARDENERS doe with Ordure hide those Roots
That shall first SPRING, and be most delicate.
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Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
<<The hero of the wonderful novel that had so influenced his life had
himself known this curious fancy. In the seventh chapter he tells how,
crowned with laurel, lest lightning might strike him, he had sat,
as Tiberius, in a GARDEN at Capri, reading the shameful books
of Elephantis, while dwarfs and peacocks strutted round him and
the flute-player mocked the swinger of the CENSER; and, as Caligula,
had caroused with the GREEN-shirted JOCKEYS in their stables and supped
in an ivory manger with a jewel-frontleted horse; >>
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Wenceslaus Hollar (of PRAGUE)'s "Long View of London"
shows the south-bank playhouses but switches the labels
on the Globe and the 'beere bayting h[ouse]'
(i.e., the BearGARDEN, previously the Hope).
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_The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon_ by Washington Irving
http://www.online-literature.com/irving/geoffrey_crayon/26/
STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
From the birthplace of Shakespeare a few paces brought me to his grave.
He lies buried in the chancel of the parish church, a large and
venerable pile, mouldering with age, but richly ORNAMENTED.
It stands on the banks of the Avon on an embowered point, and
separated by adjoining GARDENs from the suburbs of the town.
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http://www.deathstar.org/groups/ros/reference/raphamlet.html
<<He says, "You got two relatives, I won't say which,
But one's a bloody murderer and one's a faithless bitch.
Why, I was takin' a nap in the GARDEN right here,
When my ambitious brother pours some poison in my ear.... >>
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_Portrait of the Artist_ - Joyce
He passed out of the schoolhouse and HALTed under the shed that flanked
the GARDEN. From the theatre opposite came the muffled noise of the
audience and sudden BRAZEN clashes of the soldiers' band. The light
spread upwards from the GLASS roof making the theatre seem a festive
ark, ANCHORed among the hulks of houses, her frail cables of lanterns
looping her to her moorings. A side door of the theatre opened suddenly
and a shaft of light flew across the grass plots. A sudden burst of
music issued from the ark, the prelude of a waltz: and when the side
door closed again the listener could hear the faint rhythm of the music.
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Glastonbury: The Isle of Avalon?
http://freespace.virgin.net/david.ford2/avalon.html
http://www.pisle.com/bathweb/c-dir/backroad/glas.html
http://library.ctstateu.edu/~bibman/glaston.htm
<<In the Dark Ages, Glastonbury stood proud as an island.
Hence, its ancient British name was Ynys WITrin, which may
translate as "Island of GLASS," though this is disputed.
Glastonbury was cut off from the mainland by a defensive bank
and ditch known today as "Ponter's Ball," while Pomparles
(Pont-Perles) or the Perilous Bridge, kept communications open
with land to the south. Some say, it was at the latter that Bedwyr
returned Excalibur to the swirling waters after the Battle of Camlann.
An island then, certainly, but why Avalon? Avalon was the Otherworld
home of one of the Celtic Underworld Gods, Afallach. Both names
relate to the APPLES that grew in this mystical land of the dead
and show Avalon's possible relationship to other legendary realms
such as the GARDEN of the Hesperides from Greek Mythology. >>
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http://www.groundling.com/hlas/profiles/aneuendorffer.php
<<The bronze likeness of a seated Mason occupies a marble
bench under a trellis at the back edge of the space -- it is
as if Mason had paused in thought while reading a book
(Cicero) in his renowned formal GARDENs at Gunston Hall.
The site, facing the little bridge over the inlet from the
Potomac River to the Tidal Basin evolved in the 1920s from
a rather happenstance, if symmetrical, series of plantings into
something called the "PANSY GARDEN" -- so named for
the bed of PANSIES that encircled the central pool.
At the request of the National Park Service, Harwell retained much
of the 1920s plan, including the outer rings of magnolia & forsythia,
the circular fountain and a flower bed now freshly planted with
some 5,000 multicolored PANSIES.>>
OPHELIA There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,
love, remember: and there is PANSIES. that's for thoughts.
Pansy, n.; pl. {Pansies}. [F. Pens['e]e thought, pansy,
fr. PENSEr to think, L. pensare to weigh, ponder.]
"Honi soit qui mal y PENSE"
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The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
by Padraic Colum
<<Medea left Jason's side and hastened through the city. To the palace
of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians, she went. Within the palace she
found Arete, the queen. And Arete was sitting by her hearth, spinning
golden and silver threads. Medea came to her, and fell upon her KNEES
before her, and told her how she had fled from the house of her father,
King Aeetes. She told Arete, too, how she had helped Jason to win the
Golden Fleece, and she told her how through her her brother had been led
to his death. As she told this part of her story she wept and prayed at
the KNEES of the queen. Arete was greatly moved by Medea's tears and
prayers. She went to Alcinous in his GARDEN, and she begged of him to
save the Argonauts from the great force of the Colchians that had come
to cut them off. "The Golden Fleece," said Arete, "has been won by the
tasks that Jason performed. If the Colchians should take Medea, it would
be to bring her back to Aea and to a bitter doom. And the maiden,"
said he queen, "has broken my heart by her prayers and tears." Medea,
looking into the clear eyes of Queen Arete, knew that she was the
woman of whom Circe had prophesied, the woman who knew nothing of
enchantments, but who had much human wisdom. She was to ask of her
what she was to do in her life and what she was to leave undone. And
what this woman told her Medea was tó regard. Arete told her that she
was to forget all the witcheries and enchantments that she knew, and
that she was never to practice against the life of any one. This she
told Medea upon the shore, before Jason lifted her aboard the Argo.>>
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John 20:11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she
wept, SHE STOOPED DOWN, [and LOOKED] into the sepulchre, And seeth two
angels in WHITE sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet,
where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, Woman, why
weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord,
and I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she
turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was
Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou?
She, supposing him to be the GARDENER,
saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence,
tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
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Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not
much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage
into the loveliest GARDEN you EVER saw. How she longed to get out
of that DARK hall, and wander about among those beds
of bright flowers & those cool fountains,
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http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/GARDENs.html
<<Detailed descriptions of the Hanging GARDENs of Babylon
come from the writings of Strabo and Philo of Byzantium.
"The GARDEN is quadrangular, and each side is four plethra long.
It consists of ARCHed VAULTS
which are located on checkered cube like foundations..>>
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Francis Bacon: Viscount St. Albans
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/bacon/biographies/aubrey.html
<<[Bacon] came often to Sir John DANVERS at Chelsey. Sir John told me
that when his Lordship had wrote The History of Henry 7, he sent the
Manuscript copie to him to desire his opinion of it before 'twas
printed. Qd. Sir John, Your Lordship knowes that I am no Scholar.
'Tis no matter, said my Lord: I knowe what a Schollar can say; I would
know what you can say. Sir John read it, and gave his opinion what he
misliked (which I am sorry I have forgott) which my Lord acknowledged to
be true, and mended it; Why, said he, a Scholar would never have told me
this. . . I remember Sir JOHN DANVERS told me, that his Lordship much
delighted in his curious pretty GARDEN at Chelsey, and as he was
walking there one time he fell downe in a dead-sowne. My Lady DANVERS
rubbed his face, TEMPLES, etc., and gave him cordiall water; as soon
as he came to himselfe, sayde he, Madam, I am no good footman.>>
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http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/garden/catalog.asp?CN=21
<<In 1621, a gift of £250 from Henry, Lord DANVERS (later Earl of Danby)
allowed the University of Oxford to take out the lease from Magdalen
College of a five-acre tract of meadowland, on a bend of the river
Cherwell beyond the East gate of the city, in order to set up a physic
GARDEN there. DANVERS' gift, together with the benefaction made by Sir
Henry Savile to found professorships of geometry and astronomy, promised
to transform the teaching of natural philosophy at Oxford. By 1632, the
buildings of what is now the University's botanical GARDEN had been
erected by Nicholas Stone, a mason who had acted for INIGO JONES, and
work had begun to stock it with plants, following the model of earlier
physic GARDENs on the Continent. An attempt to persuade the elder John
Tradescant to accept the post of GARDENER failed in 1637, but, by 1641,
Jacob Bobart(c.1596-1680), a native of BRUNSWICK, had been appointed to
the post, with a lease on the GARDEN of ninety-nine years, and the right
to sell fruit and vegetables from it. Bobart's tasks were 'to dresse
manure preserve and keepe the said GARDEN and from tyme to tyme sett
and plant the same with such herbes settes trees and plants as shall be
thought requesit and necessarie' (Vines and Druce, p.xvi), for which
Danby contracted to pay him £40 a year. Following Danby's death and the
sequestration of his lands during the Civil War, Bobart's salary went
unpaid for several years, and he lived from the sale of the Physic
GARDEN's produce while the University petitioned Parliament to have his
annuity restored. Bobart continued as GARDENER until his death, and was
succeeded in the post by his son, also called Jacob. His care for the
Physic GARDEN won the admiration of many visitors to Oxford, who were
impressed by the rare trees and plants which Bobart grew, by his
extraordinary topiary, and, increasingly, by the GARDENER's own bizarre
appearance (see http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/garden/catalog.asp?CN=22).
In Bobart's hands, the Physic GARDEN recreated Eden,
in which all the plants of the world had flourished.>>
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<<On 25 April 1856 [240 years after Shakspere's 25 April 1616 burial!]
young Mr Dodgson went to photograph Christ Church Cathedral. He had no
luck with his photographs of the Cathedral but he did find in the GARDEN
the three daughters of the dean. This was his first meeting with Alice,
then a week away from her fourteenth birthday. Little did he know
just how imortant his friendship with Alice was to be. but
he sensed something special about her from the first day.>>
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Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
§ 3. ATTIS, Adonis, and the Pig
http://www.bartleby.com/196/117.html
<<The attitude of the Jews to the pig was as ambiguous as that of the
heathen Syrians towards the same animal. The Greeks could not decide
whether the Jews worshipped swine or abominated them. On the one
hand they might not eat swine; but on the other hand they might not
kill them. And if the former rule speaks for the uncleanness, the latter
speaks still more strongly for the sanctity of the animal. For whereas
both rules may, and one rule must, be explained on the supposition that
the pig was sacred; neither rule must, and one rule cannot, be explained
on the supposition that the pig was unclean. If, therefore, we prefer
the former supposition, we must conclude that, originally at least, the
pig was revered rather than abhorred by the Israelites. We are confirmed
in this opinion by observing that down to the time of Isaiah some of the
Jews used to meet secretly in GARDENs to eat the flesh of swine and mice
as a religious rite. Doubtless this was a very ancient ceremony, dating
from a time when both the pig and the mouse were venerated as divine,
and when their flesh was partaken of sacramentally on rare and solemn
occasions as the body and blood of gods. And in general it may perhaps
be said that all so-called unclean animals were originally sacred; the
reason for not eating them was that they were divine. >>
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<<August 16, 1530, Richmond GARDENER paid 4s. for bringing
"philberts & damsons" to King Henry VIII.>>
<<On August 16, 1537, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury,
received an advanced copy of "Matthew's Bible," the first
full translation of Holy Scripture into modern English.
It was based on William Tyndale's & Miles CoVERDale's work,
and would serve as the basis of the Great Bible of 1539.>>
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Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Works ** ON BOARD BALLOON "SKYLARK"
Well, these few details are nearly all that have descended to us
respecting the ancient Knickerbockers. It seems, however, that while
digging in the centre of the emperors GARDEN, (which, you know,
covers the whole island), some of the workmen unearthed a CUBICAL
& evidently chiseled block of granite, weighing several hundred pounds.
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http://www.nps.gov/edal/index1.html
<<"When I first became acquainted with Poe he was living in a suburban
district of Philadelphia called Spring GARDEN. In this humble domicile
I can say that I spent some of the pleasantest hours of my life -
certainly some of the most intellectual.">> - Mayne REID
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REID'S GRAVE in KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY, LONDON, ENGLAND
http://www.watermelon-kid.com/reid/images/Reid%2DGrave1.jpg
Mayne REID's tombstone is one of the most unusual ever made.
Placed here by his wife, Elizabeth,
it features an ANCHOR, a sword,
and a quotation from The Scalphunters:
"This is the Weed Prairie.
It is misnamed;
it is the GARDEN of God."
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Ulysses - Joyce
580.46: Outdoor: GARDEN and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised
causeways, ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh
water and unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle
with kedge ANCHOR on reaches free from WEIRS and rapids (period of
estivation), vespertinal perambulation or equestrian circumprocession
with inspection of sterile landscape and contrastingly agreeable
cottagers' fires of smoking peat turves (period of hibernation).
Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and
criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces:
house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl, nails, screws,
tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.
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Little Women - Louisa May Alcott PART ONE: Chapter Ten
THE PICKWICK PORTFOLIO MAY 20, 18**
________
The P.O. was a capital little institution, and flourished wonderfully,
for nearly as many QUEER things passed through it as through the real
post office. Tragedies and cravats, POEtry and PICKLES, GARDEN seeds
and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations,
scoldings, and PUPPIES. THE OLD GENTLEMAN liked the fun, and
amused himself by sending odd bundles, MYSTERIOUS MESSAGES,
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[http://members.aol.com/marlovian/inquest/engtrans.htm]
Latin inquest conducted by the Queen's Coroner, William Danby
on June 1, 1593 (translated by Prof. Leslie Hotson, 1925).
KENT/INQUISITION indented taken at Deptford Strand in the aforesaid
County of Kent within the verge on the first day of June in the
thirty-fifth year of the reign of Elizabeth, by the grace of God of
England France & Ireland Queen defender of the faith, etc thirty-fifth,
in the presence of William Danby, Gentleman, Coroner of the household
of the Queen, upon view of the body of Christopher Morley, there lying
dead and slain, upon oath of [sixteen jurors] who say [upon] their oath
that when a certain Ingram Frizer, late of London, Gentleman, and the
aforesaid Christopher Morley and one Nicholas Skeres, late of London,
Gentleman, and Robert Poley of London, Gentleman, on the thirtieth day
of May in the thirty-fifth year above named, at Deptford Strand about
the tenth hour before noon of the same day, [the four men] met together
in a room in the house of a certain Eleanor Bull, widow; & there passed
the time together & dined & after dinner were in quiet sort together
there & walked in the GARDEN belonging to the said house until
the sixth hour after noon of the same day & then returned from the
said GARDEN to the room & there together and in company supped;>>
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Christopher Marlo was born Feb.6, 1564
the feastday of St. DOROTHY
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St. DOROTHY
According to her apochryphal tradition, she was a resident of Caesarea,
Cappadocia, who when she refused to sacrifice to the gods during Emperor
Diocletian's persecution of the Christians, was tortured by the governor
and ordered executed. On the way to the place of execution, she met a
young LAWYER, Theophilus, who mockingly asked her to send him fruits
from "the GARDEN" she had joyously announced she would soon be in.
When she knelt for her execution, she prayed, and an angel with
a basket of 3 roses & 3 apples, which she sent to Theophilus,
telling him she would meet him in the GARDEN. Theophilus was
converted to Christianity and later was martyred. Her feast
day (and that of St. Theophilus the Lawyer) is February 6th.
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TENNYSON: "If Shakespeare is the dazzling SUN of this
mighty period, Marlowe is certainly the morning star."
52 (the number of letter's in the epitaph) would signify an END
53 signifies a renewal & begining:
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Life of Geoffrey Chaucer circa 1340-1400
http://online-study-guide.com/literature/geoffrey-chaucer/life-bio-bi...
<<Chaucer was pensioned by 3 kings, Edward III, Richard II, & Henry IV.
Before the reign of Henry IV., Chaucer's pensions were either not
always regularly paid, or they were insufficient for certain
emergencies, as he complained of poverty in his old age.
The pension of Henry IV. in 1399 must have been ample, however;
since in that year Chaucer leased
a house in the GARDEN of a chapel at Westminster
for as many of 53 YEARS as he should live.
He had occasion to use this house but ten months, for
he died in 1400. He was the first of the many great authors
to be buried [in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey]>>
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http://marshall.thefreelibrary.com/English-Literature-For-Boys-And-Gi...
It is said that Chaucer borrowed the form of his famous tales from a
book called The Decameron, written by an Italian poet named Boccaccio.
Decameron comes from two Greek words deka, ten, and hemera, a day,
the book being so called because the stories in it were supposed to be told
in ten days. During a time of plague in Florence seven ladies and three
gentlemen fled and took refuge in a house surrounded by a GARDEN
far from the town. There they remained for ten days, and
to amuse themselves each told a tale every day, so that
there are a hundred tales in all in The Decameron.
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"GEOFFREY CHAUCER." LoveToKnow 1911
http://90.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CH/CHAUCER_GEOFFREY.htm
On the accession of Henry IV. a new pension of 40 marks was conferred
on Chaucer (I3th of October 1399) and Richard II.s grants were formally
confirmed. Henry himself, however, was probably straitened for ready
money, and no instalment of the new pension was paid during the few
months of his reign that the poet lived. Nevertheless, on the strength of
his
expectations, on the 24th of December 1399 he leased a tenement in the
GARDEN of St Marys Chapel, Westminster, and it was probably here that he
died, on the 25th of the following October. He was buried in Westminster
Abbey, and his tomb became the nucleus of [Poets Corner]
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Apocrypha: The Epistle of Jeremiah
6:70 For as a scareCROW in a GARDEN of CUCUmbers keepeth nothing:
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THE RAGGEDY MAN (Dec. 1890).
W'y, The Raggedy Man -- he's ist so good,
He splits the kindlin' an' chops the wood;
An' nen he SPADEs in our GARDEN, too,
An' does most things 'at boys can't do. --
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<<Henry James burned his papers in a GARDEN bonfire.
Charles Dickens did, too.>> - James Hillman
_The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling_
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Lord Byron's dog: BOATSWAIN, buried in the Newstead Abbey GARDEN.
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Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
He struggles 'gainst his lot.
Behold ambition on his brow,
And on his nose, a BLOT.
"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,"
said Margaret, looking out at the frostbitten GARDEN.
"That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively,
quite unconscious of the BLOT on her nose.
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King Henry VI, Part i Act 2, Scene 4
WARWICK: This BLOT that they object against your house
Shall be wiped OUT in the next parliament
. . .
Will I upon thy party wear this rose:
And here I prophesy: this brawl to-day,
Grown to this faction in the Temple-GARDEN,
Shall send between the red rose and the white
A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
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GIULIO's _Design for Memorial to a Dog._ 1531-1534
http://ndm.si.edu/coll/om/art/dis_bigdog.jpg
http://ndm.si.edu/coll/om/2.htm
http://ndm.si.edu/coll/om/april.htm
<<Born GIULIO Pippi in Rome, GIULIO ROMANO ("The Roman") was
one of the great designers of the 16th century. The most gifted student of
the Renaissance painter Raphael, Giulio left Rome in 1524 for Mantua,
to serve in the courts of Federico II Gonzaga (1500-1540)
& his brother, Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga (1505-1563).
An example of Giulio's splendid creations is this drawing,
Rendered in dynamic pen strokes and broad washes, the drawing closely
matches a stucco relief in the Secret GARDEN at the Gonzaga's famous
villa, the Palazzo del Te. A private area reserved for the duke, the
Secret GARDEN was decorated with a series of wall panels devoted to
animal themes in the early 1530s. GIULIO's design commemorates
one of Federico II's favorite dogs who died while delivering a litter.
Elegantly seated on a TASSELED CUSHION atop the platform of a coffin,
the dog was one of many belonging to the duke similarly commemorated
with such monuments. In this design, GIULIO shows the dog posed
like a reclining human figure typically found on ancient Roman tombs.
Although many of Giulio's drawings for monuments & furnishings survive
in museums throughout the world, the majority of the actual objects
are either lost or unidentified. It is unusual that both this design
and its related stucco relief still exist today.>>
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GIOVANNI FLORIO." LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia.
http://44.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FL/FLORIO_GIOVANNI.htm
In 1591 appeared his Second Fruits, to be gathered
of Twelve Trees, of divers but delighisome Tastes to the Tongues of
Italian and English men; to which was annexed the GARDEN
of Recreation, yielding six thousand Italian Proverbs (~ to).
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"SAMUEL DANIEL." LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia.
http://66.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DA/DANIEL_SAMUEL.htm
He was now acknowledged as one of the first writers of the time.
Shakespeare, Selden & Chapman are named among the few intimates who were
permitted to intrude upon the seclusion of a GARDEN-house in Old Street,
St Lukes, where, Fuller tells us, he would lie hid for some months together,
the more retiredly to enjoy the company of the Muses, and then would appear
in public to converse with his friends. Late in life Daniel threw up his
titular posts at court and retired to a farm called The Ridge,~
which he rented at Beckington, near Devizes in, Wiltshire.
Here he died on the I4th of October 1619.
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"SIR ROBERT BRUCE COTTON." LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia.
http://30.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CO/COTTON_SIR_ROBERT_BRUCE.htm
COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE, Bart. (1571-1631), English antiquary, the founder
of the Cottonian library, born at Denton in Huntingdonshire on the 22nd of
January 1571, was a descendant, as he delighted to boast, of Robert Bruce.
He was educated at Westminster school under William Camden the antiquary,
and at Jesus College, Cambridge. His antiquarian. tastes were early
displayed in the collection of ancient records, charters and other
manuscripts, which had been dispersed from the monastic libraries in the
reign of Henry VIII.; and throughout the whole of his life he was an
energetic collector of antiquities from all parts of England and the
continent. His house at Westminster had a GARDEN going down to the
river and occupied part of the site of the present House of Lords.
It was the meeting-place in the last years of Elizabeths reign of the
antiquarian society founded by Archbishop Parker.
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"JOHN STOW." LoveToKnow 1911 Online
Encyclopedia.http://85.1911encyclopedia.org/S/ST/STOW_JOHN.htm
STOW, JOHN (c. 1525-1605), English historian and antiquary, was the son of
Thomas Stow, a tailor, and was born about 1525 in London, in the parish of
St Michael, Cornhill. His parents were poor, for his father's whole rent for
his house and GARDEN was only 6s. 6d. a year, and Stow himself in his
youth fetched every morning the milk for the family from a farm belonging
to the nunnery of the Minories.
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"GEORGE GASCOIGNE." LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia.
http://50.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GA/GASCOIGNE_GEORGE.htm
A hundreth Sundrie Floures bound up in one small Posie.
Gathered partely (by translation) in the fyne outlandish
GARDENs of Euripides, Ovid, Petra,ke, Ariosto and others; and
partely by Invention out of our owne fruitfull Orchardes in Englande,
Yelding Sundrie Savours of tragical, comical and moral discourse,
bothe pleasaunt and profitable, to the well-smelling name. -
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http://www.GARDENvisit.com/t/c1s2.html
In Greece philosophy had long been associated with GARDENs.
Horace studied at the academy in Athens as a young man and may
have been taught philosophy in the GARDEN, as had been the custom of
Plato & Epicurus. Horace particularly admired Epicurus' doctrine that
happiness results from the enjoyments of the mind and the sweets of
virtue. He was offered the job of private secretary to Augustus but
turned it down because he liked best the life of rural retirement
on his farm in the Sabine Hills: "Happy the man who bounteous
Gods allow, With his own hands Paternal Grounds to PLOUGH.">>
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Edmund Campion English Jesuit & martyr executed at Tyburn, 1 Dec., 1581
Son & namesake of a Catholic bookseller, born in London, 25 Jan., 1540
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05293c.htm
In the GARDEN at Brunn, Campion had had a vision,
in which Our Lady foretold to him his martyrdom.
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Genesis 3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field,
which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God
indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the GARDEN? And the
woman said unto the serpent, We eat of the fruit of the trees of the
GARDEN, But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
GARDEN, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
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Legends of the Dome of the Rock:
http://www.thehope.org/DomeLegends.html
1 / THE FOUNDATION STONE AND PARADISE
"Paradise longs for Jerusalem, And Jerusalem longs for Paradise."
The Foundation Stone is known in Arabic as el-Sakhra -' the Rock; hence
the shrine over it is called Kubbat el-Sakhra ' the Dome of the Rock.
On the western facade of the Dome of the Rock is the following Arabic
inscription on a slab of porcelain:
"The Rock of the Temple - from the GARDEN of Eden."
The northern gate of the mosque, facing the Foundation Stone,
is named the Gate of Paradise; in Arabic Bab ej-Jinah.
A Moslem sage relates: "The Rock of the Temple is of the stones of the
GARDEN of Eden. At resurrection day, the Ka?aba Stone, which is in holy
Mecca, will go to the Foundation Stone in holy Jerusalem, bringing
with it the inhabitants of Mecca, and it shall become joined to the
Foundation Stone. When the Foundation Stone shall see the Ka?aba
Stone approaching, it shall cry out: 'Peace be to the great guest!'".
11 / THE STONE OF EDEN
In the floor of the Dome of the Rock, at the side of the Foundation
Stone, a square GREEN slab of jasper was inserted. The Arabs call it the
Stone of Eden, because it rests above one of the gates to the GARDEN of
Eden. The entrance to the mosque facing the stone is therefore called
the Gate of the GARDEN of Eden ? in Arabic, Bab ej-Jinah.
There are nineteen holes in the stone, which apparently once served as a
place to nail a plaque to. The nails still remain in several holes. The
stone possibly dates back to the Crusades in the twelfth century and
held a plaque sanctified in Christian tradition.
When Muhammad appeared in Jerusalem and entered the Temple, he put
nineteen gold nails into the Stone of Eden as a memorial of his visit
and set the angel Gabriel to guard them, saying to him: "Remember that
should all these nails be removed, the world would return to
nothingness. Guard them well!"
But the accursed Satan, desiring the destruction of the world, would
steal in from time to time and remove a nail. At length he succeeded, by
his cunning, in removing many of them. But when he came to remove the
sixteenth nail, the angel Gabriel felt his presence, attacked him, and
drove him away. In his bewilderment and haste, Satan withdrew only
half a nail ? and three and a half nails remained in the stone.
Others say that Satan withdrew the nails while attempting
to raise the stone in order to enter the GARDEN of Eden.
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Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are
excluded from the BANQUET. Plenty revels over the fields; but they
are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has
blossomed into a GARDEN; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.
-- Washington Irving (1783-1859)
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Bishop JOHN WILKINS
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/wilkins.html
<<JOHN WILKINS showed the Royal Society an instrument to assist hearing.
At Wadham he devised a machine for the GARDENs that would create an
artifical mist, a new plow at Wadham, and also a transparent BEEHIVE
arranged so the honey could be removed without disturbing the BEES.>>
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The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog,
which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one
of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo
was gone across to the other side of the GARDEN, where Alice
could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.>>
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_Ulysses_ by James Joyce
<<The flag is up on the playhouse by the bankside. The bear
Sackerson growls in the pit near it, Paris GARDEN. canvasclimbers
who sailed with Drake chew their sausages among the groundlings.>>
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Joseph Campbell's Creative Mythology:
http://www.gravity.org/mythology/myth_iframe2_5.html
<<The P-I-E prefix per- means "to strike."
The number 19 is related to the root PE- , especially as that root
expresses boundedness. Another PE- word noteworthy in this respect is
peasant. According to the Great Reversal, peasants are natural slaves
rather than potential warriors, kings, priests or representatives of
the Black/Baroque. The word peasant is nevertheless cognate with a
tremendously rich collection of mythologically important characters,
words, and phenomena. Sure, the Latin PAGUS merely means "district";
but the Greek PEGE means "spring (of water)."
Here we are back in the primordial GARDEN,
the mythological moment, the moment of gravity.
Indeed, it is from the primeval GARDEN's central spring that the
name of the chief celestial ramification of said GARDEN derives:
the PEGASUS Square. With a blow of his hoof, the winged horse
PEGASUS - i.e. the Phoenix - causes the Hippocrene stream to
spring forth from Mt. HELICON. The name PEGASUS
stems from the aforenoted PEGE coupled to SUS, "up, sweet."
Mt. HELICON goes by many names, including Haran, Ararat, & Tara.>>
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<<Like Dr Watson or Sancho Panza, Boswell was for over a century thought
of as stooge or straight man to a genius. He was a buffoon who had
unaccountably written a masterpiece. Although he only knew Samuel
Johnson for just 425 days over a period of 21 years, after meeting in a
Covent GARDEN bookshop in 1763, Boswell's rapacious memory and devotion
to his master saw him put together a Life which was to be "in scenes",
so that the reader could observe Johnson in all his pomp--and faults.
Stuffed full of conversation snippets, the inclusion of which
scandalised many of those quoted, a defining moment for the genre,
Sisman writes of this hugely fallible Scottish facilitator, the
original "clubable" gentleman, that his Johnson "is a heroic
expression of Boswell himself": depressive, hypochondriac,
heavily in debt, with a continuous hangover and full of the pox
from whoring. And his sympathetic study largely supports his
assertion, though wisely asserting the largely unsung role of
Irish Shakespearean scholar, Edmond Malone, Boswell's own
"Boswell", in judiciously editing the text to help conjure,
as well as remember, Johnson.>> --David Vincent
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King Henry VI, Part ii Act 4, Scene 10
CADE: By my valour, the most complete champion that ever
I heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not out
the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou
sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees
thou mayst be turned to hobnails.
[Here they fight. CADE falls]
O, I am slain! famine and no other hath slain me:
let ten thousand devils come against me, and give me
but the ten meals I have lost, and I'll defy them
all. Wither, GARDEN; and be henceforth a
burying-place to all that do dwell in this house,
because the unconquered soul of Cade is fled.
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_Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy's Progress_ by Charles Dickens
Chapter 19
'NEVER mind wot it is!' replied Sikes. 'I want a boy, and he musn't
be a big 'un. Lord!' said Mr. Sikes, reflectively, 'if I'd only got
that young boy of NED, the CHIMBLEY-SWEEPer's!
He kept him small on purpose, and let him out by the job. '
Your father walks rather too quick for you, don't he, my man?'
inquired the driver: seeing that Oliver was out of breath.
'Not a bit of it,' replied Sikes, interposing. 'He's used to it.
Here, take hold of my hand, NED. In with you!'
Thus addressing Oliver, he helped him into the cart; and the driver,
pointing to a heap of sacks, told him to lie down there, and rest
himself.
They turned round to the left, a short way past the public-house; and
then, taking a right-hand road, walked on for a long time: passing
many large GARDENs and gentlemen's houses on both sides of the way,
and stopping for nothing but a little beer, until they reached a town.
Here against the WALL of a house,
Oliver saw written up in pretty large letters, 'H A M P T O N.'
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14 pieces: "hideOUS PHANTOM" [TOUS par UNG]
_____ hide S
_______ O
_______ U
H A M P T O N
<<Fagin . . . looked less like a man, than like some
[hideOUS PHANTOM], moist from the grave, and worried
by an evil spirit. He sat crouching over a cold hearth,
wrapped in an old torn coverlet,>> -- Oliver Twist
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O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire
and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda GARDENs
YES and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow
houses and the roseGARDENs and the jessamine and geraniums
and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the
mountain YES when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls
used or shall I wear a red YES and how he kissed me under the Moorish
wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with
my eYES to ask again YES and then he asked me would I YES to say YES my
mountain flower and first I put my arms around him YES and drew him
down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume YES and
his heart was going like mad and YES I said YES I will YES.
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Origen, one of the early Christian "fathers", in one of his sermons
likens God to an archer. A twelfth century Italian illuminated
manuscript shows God driving Adam & Eve out of the GARDEN of Eden with
a flight of arrows, much as APOLLO in the Iliad pursued the Greeks.
Other twelfth-century miniatures depict God holding a bow and arrow.
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http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/02/03/1bkk/04b.html
<<Christoph Luxenberg, a scholar of ancient Semitic languages in Germany,
argues that the Koran has been misread and mistranslated for centuries. His
work, based on the earliest copies of the Koran, maintains that parts of
Islam's holy book are derived from pre-existing Christian Aramaic texts
that were misinterpreted by later Islamic scholars who prepared
the editions of the Koran commonly read today.
So, for example, the virgins who are supposedly awaiting good
Islamic martyrs as their reward in paradise are in reality
"white raisins" of crystal clarity rather than fair maidens.
The famous passage about the virgins is based on the word hur, which is an
adjective in the feminine plural meaning simply "white." Islamic tradition
insists the term hur stands for "houri," which means virgin, but Mr.
Luxenberg insists that this is a forced misreading of the text. In both
ancient Aramaic and in at least one respected dictionary of early Arabic,
hur means "white raisin."
Mr. Luxenberg has traced the passages dealing with paradise to a Christian
text called Hymns of Paradise by a fourth-century author. Luxenberg said
the word paradise was derived from the Aramaic word for GARDEN and all
the descriptions of paradise described it as a GARDEN of flowing waters,
abundant fruits and white raisins, a prized delicacy in the ancient Near
East. In this context, white raisins, mentioned often as hur, Mr. Luxenberg
said, makes more sense than a reward of sexual favors.>>
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THE STRATFORD-ON-AVON BIRTHPLACE By Roderick L. Eagle
<<April 29, 1552. John Shakspere was fined for having an offensive
heap of OFFAL outside his shop in HENley Street. Here he
traded in meat, skins and wool. It has not been established if he
actually resided there or, if he did, whether as owner or tenant.
In 1556 he purchased a house in GREENhill Street described in a legal
document as having "GARDEN and croft." It was, therefore, a more
"desirable residence" than the malodorous premises in HENley Street.
In 1556 he also bought "the woolshop" in HENley Street.>>
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Sir Thomas More and Utopia
http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/sir_thomas_more__utopia.htm
<<On a diplomatic trip to Brussels, "More" takes a side trip
to the seaport of Antwerp where he falls into conversation with
Peter Giles & Giles' acquaintance, Raphael Hythloday, who sailed with
Amerigo Vespucci. The men go to "More"'s house where, in the GARDEN,
Raphael tells them of the history, customs & culture of Utopians.>>
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Atlantis (From Wikipedia)
A fragmentary work of Theophrastus of Lesbos tells about the colonies of
Atlantis in the sea. Hesiod wrote that the GARDEN of the Hesperides was
on an island in the sea where the sun sets. Pliny the Elder recorded
that this land was 12,000 km distant from C=E1diz, and Uba, a Numidian
king intended to establish a stock farm of purple Murex there. Diodorus
declares that the ancient Phoenicians and Etruscans knew America, the
enormous island outside the Pillars of Heracles. He describes it as the
climate is very mild, fruits and vegetables grow ripe throughout the
year. There are huge mountains covered with large forests,
and wide, irrigable plains with navigable rivers.
Scylax of Caryanda gives similar account.
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http://www.jpj.demon.co.uk/jpjlife.htm
<<John Paul Jones is famous in the United States as the 'Father of the
American Navy'. He was born in poverty and through his skills became
a distinguished naval officer fighting for both the USA and Russia. In
Britain he is rather remembered as a pirate. Indeed, Benjamin Disraeli,
an early biographer, wrote that the nurses of Scotland hushed their
crying charges by the whisper of his name. In Holland a Dutch song
Here comes John Paul Jones, that fine fellow is still sung by
schoolchildren.
He was awarded a gold medal and a gold sword for his exploits
but he was buried in an unmarked grave for over a century.
A GARDENER'S SON
John Paul, (he added the Jones later) was born on the estate of
Arbigland, south west Scotland on 6th July 1747. (His birth was not
registered?) He was the 4th child of John Paul & Jean MacDUFF. They
had seven children in all but two died in infancy. His father was the
GARDENER of the estate. Originally the family were from Fife but John
Paul Snr had moved to Leith where William Craik, the owner of Arbigland
had met him and hired him to lay out his GARDENs. John Paul went to
Kirkbean school but spent much time at the small port of Carsethorn
on the Solway Firth. In later life William Craik's son recalled that he
would run to Carsethorn whenever his father would let him off, talk to
the sailors and clamber over the ships; and that he taught his playmates
to manoeuvre their little boats to mimic a naval battle, while he,
taking his stand on the tiny cliff overlooking the roadstead, shouted
shrill commands at his imaginary fleet. It was from Carsethorn that at
the age of 13 that he boarded a vessel to go to Whitehaven across the
Solway where he signed up for a seven year seaman's apprenticeship. His
first voyage as ships boy took him to Barbados and Fredericksburg in
Virginia on the Friendship of Whitehaven. and he stayed with his older
brother William, a tailor, who had emigrated there and flourished.
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from http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/
<<Paradise Lost (by Milton): Satan rouses the panic-stricken host of
fallen angels to tell them about a rumour current in Heaven of a new
world about to be created. He calls a council to deliberate what should
be done, and they agree to send Satan to search out for the new world.
Satan, passing the gulf between Hell & Heaven and the limbo of Vanity,
enters the orb of the Sun (in the guise of an angel) to make inquiries
as to the new planet's whereabouts; and, having obtained
the necessary information, alights on Mount Niphates,
and goes to Paradise in the form of a CORMORANT.
Seating himself on the Tree of Life, he overhears Adam & Eve
talking about the prohibition made by God, and at once resolves
upon the nature of his attack. Gabriel sends two angels to watch over
the bower of Paradise, and Satan flees. Raphael is sent to warn Adam of
his danger, and tells him the story of Satan's revolt and expulsion out
of Heaven, and why and how this world was made. After a time Satan
returns to Paradise in the form of a mist, and, entering the serpent,
induces Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit. Adam eats "that he may
perish with the woman whom he loved." Satan returns to Hell to tell his
triumph, & Michael is sent to lead the guilty pair out of the GARDEN.>>
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http://www.motco.com/Harben/2087.htm
<<Fisher's Folly.-In Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without
A house built by Jasper Fisher, one of the six clerks in Chancery. It
afterwards belonged to the Earl of Oxford and in Stow's time to Sir
Roger Manners. Mockingly called Fisher's folly, he being a man of
no great possessions and indebted to many. Capital messuage,
buildings, yards, etc., at Bishopsgate, formerly the six GARDENs
late purchased of Martin Bowes, etc., belonging to Jasper Fisher,
22 Eliz. 1580 (Lond. I. p.m. III. p. 19).
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Stephanie Caruana (spear-sha...@mindspring.com)
I feel it's only fair to mention that Oxford's home for a while
in the late 80's or so was "Fisher's Folly", just outside
Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward. It is described in
John Stow's "London Under Elizabeth: A Survey," as follows:
"Next to [John Paulet's new house], a far more large and beautiful
house, with GARDENS OF PLEASURE, bowling alleys, and such like,
built by Jasper Fisher, free of the goldsmiths, late one of the six clerks
of the chancery and a justice of the peace. It hath since for a
time been the Earl of Oxford's place. The queen's majesty Elizabeth
hath lodged there. It now belongeth to Sir Roger Maners. This house,
being so large and sumptuously built by a man of no greater calling,
possessions, or wealth, for he was indebted to many, was mockingly
called Fisher's Folly..." [p.180-1].
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(Nelle) Harper Lee (1926-)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm
<<American writer, famous for her race relations novel
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, (awarded the 1961 Pulitzer Prize)
Lee was 34 when the work was published,
and it has remained her only novel.
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.
They don't eat up people's GARDENs, don't nest in corncribs,
they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.
That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
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_Mythological Background to Euripides' ION_
by John Porter, University of Saskatchewan
The story of Erichthonius is clearly related to the mysterious rite of
the Arrhephoria. This rite is described by Pausanias (1.27.3): two girls
of noble birth would live on the Acropolis near the Erechtheum as
Athena's servants. On the night of the festival they would accept
chests, the contents of which was a mystery, from the priestess of
Athena. These they would carry on their heads down a passageway to the
shrine of Aphrodite in the GARDENs (near the caves of Apollo and Pan) at
the northern base of the Acropolis. There they would leave the contents
of the chests in a cave and would bring back something else (unknown)
and deposit it in Athena's temple. The site of this rite is thus the
very place where Creusa is raped by Apollo in Euripides' play and where
she later exposes the infant ION in a chest. (For views of this area of
the Acropolis, visit Kevin Glowacki's and Nancy Klein's The City of
Athens: The North Slope of the Akropolis page:
http://www.stoa.org/athens/sites/northslope.html,
http://www.stoa.org/athens/sites/northslope/index4.html)
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1 Independent 4-letter words that appear in 4 or more arrays:
ROJI:0806d ROJI:1515d ROJI:2706d ROJI:3306u
ROJI: Japanesse GARDEN through which you reach the tea-house??
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SONNET 16
Bvt wherefore do not you a mightier waie
Make warre vppon this bloudie tirant time?
And fortifie your selfe in your decay
With meanes more blessed then my barren rime?
Now stand you on the top of happie houres,
And many maiden GARDENs yet vnset,
With vertuous wish would beare your liuing flowers,
Much liker then your painted counterfeit:
So should the lines of life that life repaire
Which this (Times pensel or my pupill pen )
Neither in inward worth nor outward faire
Can make you liue your selfe in eies of men,
To giue away your selfe,keeps your selfe still,
And you must liue drawne by your owne sweet skill,
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<<Fisher's Folly, one of the show-places of Elizabethan London, occupied
the present site of Devonshire Square, just east of Bishopsgate Street
Without. It is described as a huge structure with
"GARDENs of PLEASURE, bowling-alleys and the like."
Built by Jasper Fisher, one of the clerks
in Chancery, and a member of the Goldsmiths' Company,
the maintenance of this princely establishment
proved such a strain on its builder's resources that the place
was called Fisher's Folly. Oxford, with characteristic disregard
of his own financial uncertainty, appears to have taken over the estate
about 1584. Except for a visit which the Queen once paid him here,
there is no record of the Earl having gone in for lavish entertaining
while he owned the house.
His city residence was still maintained at Oxford Court by London
Stone. But by 1586 the poet's financial situation had become so
precarious that he was obliged to accept a pension from the Crown.
At the same time, he is known to have had
many theatrical associations, he was still the acknowledged
patron of many poets and dramatists, and his own reputation as
the best of the Court writers grew apace.
All of these facts indicate that Lord Oxford
had really acquired Fisher's Folly as headquarters for the school of poets
and dramatists who openly acknowledged his patronage and leadership.
These men included John Lyly, Thomas Watson, Robert GREENe, Anthony
Munday, Thomas CHURCHYARD and Thomas Nash-all of whom tell us that
they are, or have been, on terms of personal association with the Earl.
In STRANGE News Nash describes the household of the literary
nobleman in London where he has done most of his writing.>>
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JOHN 18:10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the
high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was
MALCHUS. Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath:
the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? Then the
band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
18:26 One of the servants of the high priest, being [his] kinsman whose
ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the GARDEN with him?
Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
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The Life of Browne By Samuel Johnson
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<<Sir Thomas Browne was born at London, in the parish of St. Michael in
Cheapside, on the 19th of October, 1605. His father was a merchant, of
an ancient family at Upton, in Cheshire. Of the name or family of his
mother I find no account.
To his treatise on urn-burial, was added the GARDEN of Cyrus, or the
quincunxial Lozenge, or network Plantation of the Ancients,
artificially, naturally, mystically, considered. This discourse he
begins with the Sacred GARDEN, in which the first man was placed;
and deduces the practice of horticulture, from the earliest accounts of
antiquity to the time of the Persian Cyrus, the first man whom we
actually know to have planted a quincunx; which, however, our author
is inclined to believe of longer date, and not only discovers it in the
description of the hanging GARDENs of Babylon, but seems willing
to believe, and to persuade his reader, that it was practised
by the feeders on vegetables before the flood.
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About the mid-way from Verolam-house to Gorambery, on the right
hand, on the side of a Hill which faces the Passer-by, are sett in
artificiall manner severall stately Trees of the like groweth and
heighth, whose diversity of GREENs on the side of the hill are exceeding
pleasant. These delicate walkes and prospects entertaine the Eie to
Gorambery-howse, which is a large, well-built Gothique howse, built
(I thinke) by Sr Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper, father to this Lord
Chancellor, to whom it descended by the death of Anthony Bacon his
middle brother, who died sans issue. The Lord Chancellor made an
addition of a noble Portico, which fronts the GARDEN to the South;
opposite to every arch of this Portico, and as big as the arch, are
drawn by an excellent hand (but the mischief of it is, in water-colours)
curious pictures, all Emblematicall, with Motto's under each. For
example, one I remember is a ship tossed in a storm, the Motto,
Alter erit tum Tiphys [There will come another Tiphys].
Over this Portico is a stately Gallerie, whose GLASSe-windowes are
all painted: and every pane with severall figures of beest, bird, or
flower: perhaps his Lordship might use them as Topiques for Locall
memorie. The windowes looke into the GARDEN: the side opposite to them
no window; but is hung all with pictures at length, as of King James,
his Lordship, and several Illustrious persons of his time. At the end
you enter is no windowe, but there is a very large picture, thus: In the
middle on a Rock in the sea stands King James in armour with his regall
Ornaments; on his right hand stands (but whether or no on a Rock I have
forgott) King Hen. 4 of France, in armour; and on his left hand the King
of Spaine in like manner. These figures are (at least) as big as the
life: they are donne only with umbre and shell-gold; all the heightnin
and illuminated part being burnisht gold and the shadowed umbre, as in
the pictures of the Gods on the dores of Verulam-howse. The roofe of
this Gallerie is semi-cylindrique, and painted by the same hand and same
manner, with heads and busts of Greek and Roman Emperours and Heroes.
In the Hall (which is of the auncient building) is a large storie
very well painted of the Feastes of the Gods, where Mars is caught in a
nett by Vulcan. On the wall, over the Chimney, is painted an Oake with
Akornes falling from it, the Word, Nisi qud potius [Failing some better
chance] and on the wall over the Table is painted Ceres teaching the
Soweing of Corne, the Word, Moniti meliora [We now have better counsel].
The GARDEN is large, which was (no doubt) rarely planted and kept
in his Lordship's time. Here is a handsome Dore, which opens into
Oake-wood; OVER THIS DORE IN GOLDEN LETTERS
on blew are six verses.
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Pope's Grotto
<<Trees & shrubs were planted to form groves, arcades, and
"wildernesses," & unusual vegetables, herbs, & quincunxes of vines &
fruit-trees filled the kitchen GARDENs. Pope oversaw the building of
hothouses, a large "mount" covered with trees, bushes, and heaps of
rugged and mossy stones (with a spiral path to the top, where one came
upon a large Forest seat, shaded by a tree); niches containing urns
& stone busts of Homer, Virgil, Marcus Aurelius, and Cicero; stone
pavilions at the water's edge; an orangery; a bowling-GREEN; an open
temple made of shells; an amphitheatre; a memorial obelisk to his
mother (erected in 1735); and, most importantly, his famous grotto, the
construction of which commenced in 1722. The walls and ceiling of the
grotto were lined with flints, pebbles, and shells, and contained
concealed mirrors and alabastor lamps which served to illuminate its
rills, fountains, and pools, as well as the enormous collection of
exotic minerals--crystals, metallic ores, lava, coral, gold ore, Italian
marble--and plants, statues, fossils, and shells--which friends of the
poet, over a period of many years, gathered from all over the world and
presented to him. The grotto began in the basement of the villa and ran
under the road to the GARDEN, where a path led through a "wilderness"
or carefully overhanging trees to the temple.>>
http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/previctorian/pope/twic...
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/apope.htm
http://www.GARDENvisit.com/g/pope.htm
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH (Ralegh)
<<Sir Walter Raleigh was confined in the Tower on three separate
occasions. He was initially imprisoned (Brick Tower) by Queen Elizabeth
I in 1592 after she learned of his involvement with one of her maids of
honour - Bess Throckmorton - whom he later secretly married. A jealous
queen, it took him some time to regain her favour but she finally
relented and he led an English attack on the Spanish city of Cadiz
in 1596. In 1601 he saved the Queen from a rebellion led by Robert
Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. Gleefully, no doubt, he presided at the
execution. His fortunes declined after the death of the queen in 1603.
The new monarch, James I believed that Raleigh opposed his
accession and had him committed to the Bloody Tower on a charge of
treason. His death sentence was staid at the last minute, but he
spent a total of thirteen years imprisoned within the Bloody Tower.
His wife and young son Wat joined him after the Tower had been
extensively renovated including the addition of an upper floor in
1606 so as to house the Raleigh's and their attendants. Sir Walter
and two servants took the first floor. It must have been a squeeze
with the addition of wardrobe chests, books, papers and the like.
His wife, the boy and female servants occupied the upper floor.
Lady Raleigh was allowed to come and go as she pleased and, in fact
left with young Wat in 1604 when there was an outbreak of plague. Things
couldn't have been all that bad because a second son - Carew - was born
in the Bloody Tower and baptized in St. Peter ad Vincula - the Tower's
chapel - on the 15th February, 1606. Raleigh was allowed to grow rare
herbs in the Lieutenant's GARDEN and work on scientific experiments
in the GARDEN shed. He made medicines too. >>
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<<The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English GARDEN.
In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of
the common FOXGLOVE plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action.
Still used in heart medications, >>
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Odyssey - Homer (tr. Samuel Butler) BOOK XIV
"If you really are my son Ulysses," replied Laertes,
"and have come back again, you must give me
such manifest proof of your identity as shall convince me."
"First observe this scar," answered Ulysses, "which I got from a boar's
tusk when I was hunting on Mount Parnassus. You and my mother had sent
me to Autolycus, my mother's father, to receive the presents which when
he was over here he had promised to give me. Furthermore I will point
out to you the trees in the vineyard which you gave me, and I asked you
all about them as I followed you round the GARDEN. We went over them
all, and you told me their names and what they all were. You gave me
thirteen pear trees, ten apple trees, and forty fig trees; you also
said you would give me fifty rows of vines; there was corn planted
between each row, and they yield grapes of every kind when the heat
of heaven has been laid heavy upon them." Laertes' strength failed
him when he heard the convincing proofs which his son had given him.
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Introduction Don Quixote by Cervantes - Translated by John Ormsby
<<It has been also made a reproach to Spain that she has erected no
monument to the man she is proudest of; no monument, that is to say,
of him; for the bronze statue in the little GARDEN of the Plaza de las
Cortes, a fair work of art no doubt, and unexceptionable had it been
set up to the local poet in the market-place of some provincial
town, is not worthy of Cervantes or of Madrid. But what need has
Cervantes of "such weak witness of his name;" or what could a
monument do in his case except testify to the self-glorification
of those who had put it up? Si monumentum quoeris, circumspice.
The nearest bookseller's shop will show what bathos there
would be in a monument to the author of "Don Quixote."
Nine editions of the First Part of "Don Quixote" had already
appeared before Cervantes died, thirty thousand copies in all,
according to his own estimate, and a tenth was printed
at Barcelona the year after his death. >>
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_Tom Jones_ By Henry Fielding
When the scene was over, Jones said, "Why, Partridge, you exceed
my expectations. You enjoy the play more than I conceived possible."
"Nay, sir," answered Partridge, "if you are not afraid of the devil,
I can't help it; but to be sure, it is natural to be surprized at such
things,
though I know there is nothing in them: not that it was the ghost that
surprized me, neither; for I should have known that to have been only
a man in a STRANGE dress; but when I saw the little man so frightened
himself, it was that which took hold of me." "And dost thou imagine,
then, Partridge," cries Jones, "that he was really frightened?" "Nay,
sir," said Partridge, "did not you yourself observe afterwards, when
he found it was his own father's spirit, and how he was murdered in
the GARDEN, how his fear forsook him by degrees, and he was struck
dumb with sorrow, as it were, just as I should have been, had it been
my own case?- But hush! O la! what noise is that? There he is again.
-- Well to be certain, though I know there is nothing at all in it,
I am glad I am not down yonder, where those men are."
Then turning his eyes again upon Hamlet, "Ay, you may draw your
sword; what signifies a sword against the power of the devil?"
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http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/GARDENs.html
<<The approach to the GARDEN sloped like a hillside and the sEVERal
parts of the structure rose from one another TIER on TIER...
On all this, the earth had been piled...
and was thickly planted with trees of EVERy kind that,
by their great size and other charm, gave pleasure to the
beholder... The water machines [raised] the water in great
abundance from the riVER, although no one outside could see it.>>
-- Diodorus Siculus
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