A Song of Summer Time
A lyrical reminiscence of summer scenes in the country with birds songs streams sunlight and forest life. The poem evokes branches trees squirrels ferns waters and starry nights noting the pleasure the season brings. Words by Frank H Sweet printed in Donshoe's Magazine.
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Frank H. Sweet
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Beggar girl saves aristocrat sister in Paris execution crowd
In the era of terror a beggar girl named Marie deceives Robespierre by switching clothes with Marie de Nantes to gain access to the guillotine. The sister then risks her life to save her aristocrat brother Antonio, and Robespierre forgives the pair after learning the truth.
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Marie de Nantes
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de Nantes
Nantes
Nervous Prostration Rumor Stirs Detroit Frese Pras
The Detroit Frese Pras comments on He-Do Freshe's lay up with nervous prostration and contrasts it with the notion that nothing on earth could prostrate that fellow's nerve.
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The Sixth Sense in Love and Change of Voice
A poetic meditation on a supposed sixth sense that reveals unseen changes in faces and voices. It links this heightened perception to love and a duty to discern hidden feelings, suggesting a near divine insight sparked by attentive listening and watching.
Major Teller’s Narrow Escape From a March Wedding
The dapper Major Teller retreats from a crowded street scene to a church where Miss Patience Pettigrew forces a brief ceremony. The pair wed, but he flees afterward to avoid life with her, planning escape as he contemplates drowning or a return to freedom. He resumes churchgoing, still single in heart.
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Teller
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Memorial plate to Parr in a rural chapel near Westbury
In a north field near the Westbury Half Way House a small chapel houses a brass memorial for Parr born 1488 and buried 1686. The mid seventeenth century plaque portrays a serene farmer, linked with abbeys and shifts in religion, as discussed in Macmillan's Magazine.
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Parr
England
Westminster Abbey
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Vandyke
Macmillan’s Magazine
Dinner Invite Sparks Insult Claim in New York Sun
A staffer recalls a girl who refused him and insulted him by inviting him to dinner in what he describes as a cruel tease reported in the New York Sun.
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Dashaway
New York Sun
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