Passions and Projects

Dickens and the passions.

There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle "examined" the scholars, once a quarter. What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar. This was always followed by Collins's Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Revenge, throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the Warde...

Reasons and Passions

L'Âme et ses passions

Commentarius), which is frequently mentioned in his other writings. The latter work, too, is preserved only in fragments. A long passage from the third book was initially published by Daremberg in 1848 and was subsequently edited in the CMG in 1934 by Schroder and Kahle. In this book Larrain demonstrates that the reading of MS. scor. graec. 4-HI-l 1 (Revilla 230) pp. 123w -126w, whose subjectma...

Insect passions

reintroduce some of the recently lost British species to the grounds of Chartwell but these were put on hold as the country went to war with Germany. But it was a mission he returned to after the end of the war in 1945. Although he was unsuccessful at introducing lost species, he reared many native species in cages in his butterfly house. And, on the occasion of grand garden parties at Chartwel...

Passions in Every Room.

Finding my way through a bramble of monitors tangled in the dense undergrowth of thorny data. Morning rounds are a forest thick with prickly questions. Perfect strangers become patients. Personalities baroque as the 50 year-old Hispanic man admitted yesterday with back pain. In prison for 19 years, (in America for 20) Arms, chest, and thick neck all Hieronymus Bosch and guitar-string calligraph...