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William Butler Yeats Biography
... secretary during the winters of 1913 and 1914, and was a friend and confidante for the remainder of this life. The suggestive, beautiful lyricism of ... uprising. It referred to the executed leaders of the uprising and stated: "Now and in time to be, / ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
John Gay satirical comedian
... the secretary for the duchess of Monmouth. During his job for Duchess of Monmouth he had more free time and began to publish poems. One of ... , a local theater owner, took on the play and as one stated, "of making Gay rich, and Rich gay." Gay was mainly a play ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
The Metamorphosis
... position as a secretary. The father chases Gregor around the dinning room table one early morning as he comes out of his room he ... , his state does not provoke a sense of shock or disbelief in the eyes of his household, who just loathe it as a sign of their ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"Candide" by Voltaire.
... of law. He became lovesick with the daughter of an adventurer while employed as secretary ... of depression in Voltaire's famous story, which represents and states the suffering that occurred during the time. However, not only does it represent the state of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Elizabeth I
... of the Holy See, through the Papal Secretary. (Doran, 59) Add the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve in France in 1572, and the assassination of ... by which to rule effectively: civil obedience. The State was Protestant; the law demanded attendance at Church; ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
F.S. Fitzgeral "The Great Gatsby".
... personal capacity being in turn a steward, mate, skipper, secretary and even jailor. During this time the boat went ... of alcohol ('bootlegging'). The sale of alcohol was prohibited in the United States in the 1920s. Gatsby came from the western United States ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone".
... known as his housekeeper and secretary. Remaining with her on and off for the rest of his life, he also ... of that, Franklin Blake was the main character, with the help of whom the author put his experiment of tracing the influence of character on the state of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
A Silent God in John Donne's "Holy Sonnets"
... of information he had learned, which eventually landed him in a job in 1598 as a secretary to Thomas Egerton, one of ... any other religion other than the state religion. John Carey described the consequences of not adhering to Anglicanism: "You could not ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Henry Vaughan
... Breconshire, his home town, in 1642 as a secretary to Judge Lloyd, someone he often 1 1 ... , and doth not tire, There God a commerce states, and sheds His secret on their heads. ... I shall need no glass. The form of this poem of ABAB in its rhyme scheme. The ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: WHAT A CAREER
... off the platform and landed on top of the Assistant Secretary for the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Bond ... of misunderstanding of Chaplin's motives which grew in volume over the next decade and finally led to Chaplin's departure from the United States ...
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