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Verses by Julian Huxley, brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, President of the Royal Society of London and corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Verses by Julian Huxley, brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, President of the Royal Society of London and corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. All three grandsons of that gentleman, by the way, became distinguished men, luminaries before whom one ought,
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If we all valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world
Tolkien. But for the time being, humanity persists in building a world that Smaug, Morgoth and Sauron would appreciate
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Tolstoy and Chekhov in the Crimea in 1901
Tolstoy and Chekhov in the Crimea in 1901. Lev Nikolayevich is 73, Anton Pavlovich 41.
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A Year with the Sun and Moon in Its Hands, and Light and Darkness Beneath Them
Around the symbolic image of the year are the signs of the zodiac, natural phenomena, details of the weather and the four winds. From the illustrated book Scivias by Hildegard of Bingen, completed in 1151-1152 and devoted to her religious visions
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New Literary Observer has published "Doctor Zhivago as a Historical Novel", by the philologist Konstantin Polivanov, a study of Boris Pasternak's principal novel, of the prototypes of its heroes, of Pasternak's spiritual and political evolution, and of ho
New Literary Observer (Novoye literaturnoye obozreniye) has published "Doctor Zhivago as a Historical Novel" by the philologist Konstantin Polivanov. The book deals with Boris Pasternak's principal novel, the prototypes of the heroes of his famous work, Pasternak's spiritual and political evolution, and the way
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Project for the 50th anniversary of poet Boris Ryzhy devotes a month to his works
Boris Ryzhy departed this life very young, at 26. This year he would have turned fifty. It was Boris Ryzhy who wrote the lines "In Russia people part for ever…". His poetry requires no preparation and no agonised interpretation: it is to be felt. Yevgeny Rein, a friend
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This year's text for the "Total Dictation" will be written by the author Marina Moskvina
This year's text for the "Total Dictation" will be written by the author Marina Moskvina. I am scarcely acquainted with her work, but I remembered a charming story that contained this sentence: "Every Saturday I hoped that Dad would stay at home, that we would
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Raphael's portrait of Baldassare Castiglione from the Mazarin collection in the Louvre
Portrait of the Italian Renaissance writer and diplomat Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), known as the author of The Book of the Courtier, which describes the court of Urbino in the form of a manual of etiquette. Castiglione gives particular attention to moderation and courtesy, regarding them as proof of civilisation.
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The Black Books of Hours of the Late Fifteenth Century: the Pride of the Masters of Bruges
The Black Books of Hours of the late fifteenth century are the pride of the masters of Bruges. The principal patron of these masterpieces was the Burgundian court. Only a handful of books executed in this technique have survived to our day. To obtain the black pages, the parchment was
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Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish Carmelite monk, in a painting
Seek in reading, and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer, and it will be opened to you in contemplation. The Spanish Carmelite friar Saint John of the Cross
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