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"She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1814 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. [2] It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life. On 11 June 1814, Byron attended a party in London. Among the guests was Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, wife of Byron's first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot ...
It was a dark and stormy night. A dark and stormy night in Glacier National Park, Montana. " It was a dark and stormy night " is an often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", [ 1] also known as purple prose .
Ἀεὶ κολοιὸς παρὰ κολοιῷ ἱζάνει. "A jackdaw is always found near a jackdaw". Ἀεὶ κολοιὸς παρὰ κολοιῷ ἱζάνει. Aeì koloiòs parà koloiôi hizánei. "A jackdaw is always found near a jackdaw". Similar to English "birds of a feather flock together." Papyrus, dated 75–125 A.D ...
Quotation. A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. [ 1] In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying. For example: John said: "I saw Mary ...
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Laconic phrase. A laconic phrase or laconism is a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt and elliptical rejoinder. [ 1][ 2] It is named after Laconia, the region of Greece including the city of Sparta, whose ancient inhabitants had a reputation for verbal austerity and were famous for their often pithy remarks.
The woman also smears gold paint on a glass pane between herself and Vext, and after the guitar solo, she etches "1-15-18", the date of O'Riordan's death, into the paint. The video ends with a quote by Vext, "Her lyrics, confronting the collateral damage of political unrest, capture the same sentiment we wanted to express a quarter-century later.
Sonnet 130 satirizes the concept of ideal beauty that was a convention of literature and art in general during the Elizabethan era. Influences originating with the poetry of ancient Greece and Rome had established a tradition of this, which continued in Europe's customs of courtly love and in courtly poetry, and the work of poets such as Petrarch.