FROM THE GREEK.

A man who was about to hang himself,
Finding a purse, then threw away his rope;
The owner, coming to reclaim his pelf,
The halter found; and used it. So is Hope
Changed for Despair--one laid upon the shelf,
We take the other. Under Heaven's high cope
Fortune is God--all you endure and do
Depends on circumstance as much as you.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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42 years ago today, March 31, 1984, Gene Watson debuted at #68 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “Forever Again”. It went on to peak at #10 and spent a total of 17 weeks on the chart.

It’s been my hobby to collect 45 RPM singles. I enjoyed listening to this song on the radio and went to my favorite record store to buy and add it to my treasured music collection.

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𝐊𝐢𝐦(Winona Ryder) et 𝐄𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 (Johnny Depp) dans Edward aux Mains d’Argent de Tim Burton en 1990

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QUEVEDO DE VILLEGAS
(don Francisco), littérateur espagnol, mort en 1645.

LES VISIONS DE QUEVEDO, traduit de l’espagnol, par L…, 2 vol. in-12, 1812. — Ce roman avait déjà été traduit par l’abbé Bérault Bercastel, en 1756, sous le titre de Voyages récréatifs du chevalier de Quevedo, in-12, 1750. — Les Visions de Quevedo sont…

— Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau
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LA première partie du grand mystère que l’on célébrant au temple d’Isis, sur le mont Bathn-el-Hav, venait de prendre fin. Les croyants n’ayant encore franchi que les premiers degrés de l'initiation étaient admis à cette partie du culte. Et maintenant, de sa voix douce et lasse, le prêtre officiant, vieillard antique vêtu de blanc, la tête rasée, la face…

— Alexandre Kouprine
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Nevertheless, it would be wrong to suppose that Gautama Buddha consciously set himself up as the founder of a new religion. On the contrary, he believed to the last that he was proclaiming only the pure and ancient religion which had prevailed among the

— Romesh Chunder Dutt
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ARCTINUS, of Miletus, one of the earliest poets of Greece and contributors to the epic cycle. He flourished probably about 744 B.C. (Ol. 7). His poems are lost, but an idea of them can be gained from the Chrestomathy written by Proclus the Neo-Platonist of the 5th century or by a grammarian of the same name in the time of the Antonines. The Aethiopis…

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In which the King’s Cousin’s Cooking, we appreciate a joke from a terrible source, get a grip on some names, and try not to say too much.

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