10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURPLE PASSAGE»
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Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry
As he says in a later interview : It was a very famous purple passage, but it also
happened to have an oblique applicability (in its ferocity of emotion and in its
narrative about a divided city) to the Northern Irish situation.3 The context of the ...
2
Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage
From Puddle to Palace," Town Topics, March 27, 1886, copy in Squier Papers,
NYHS: 3 (the prose bears evidence of Squier's style); Stem, Purple Passage, pp.
63-65; EGS to Douglas Campbell, June 5, 1 873; "Supreme Court in the Matter of
...
In Rutter's production, 'when Dave Hill, as a weary seen-it-all Enobarbus, tells
Agrippa and Maecenas of the barge Cleopatra sat in, it's no purple passage: they'
ve asked him, so he'll tell them' (Robert Butler, Independent on Sunday, ...
William Shakespeare, Richard Madelaine,
1998
4
Women's Concerns: Twelve Women Entrepreneurs of the ...
crepe veil" as she went to work, a "bit of southern femininity crushed by sorrow" (
Stern, Purple Passage 109). Joaquin Miller similarly— and inaccurately—
reported that she was "earning her bread single- handed and alone, and
supporting her ...
Jill Christine Jepson,
2009
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Oxford Dictionary of English
1443 3 Brit. informal a purple heart-shaped amphetamine tablet. purple passage
7noun an elaborate or excessively ornate passage in a literary composition.
purple patch 7noun 1 Brit. informal a run of success or good luck: people expect
me ...
6
Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine, 1988-2004
Charles looks up, frowning. 'What?' 'Purple passage, let's have a purple passage,
' carols Rodney. He spreads out the groundsheet. 'A purple passage before lunch
.' MARGARET MAHY A Dissolving Ghost Possible Operations of Truth in 344 ...
7
Malcolm Lowry: His Art and Early Life: A Study in Transformation
... bring down the wounded bird, a feat that is related to a boyhood exploit of
Aiken.8 The very tide Ultramarine is of course an adaptation of Blue Voyage - or
a challenge to it - as an alternative, later, Purple Passage seemed more
appropriate!
8
The Shape of the Liturgy, New Edition
The Shape's most famous purple passage, 'Was ever another command so
obeyed?'15 speaks of an unbroken continuity in the celebration of the Eucharist,
and this was obviously Dix's own personal experience as a priest, even more so
as a ...
9
The Ruskin Polygon: Essays on the Imagination of John Ruskin
It is beautiful, a typical Ruskin purple passage, but it is constructed out of
meteorological and technical colour language. It talks of zeniths, and degrees, of
sweeps of heaven, of pure blue, of equal transition, and so on. It is oriented
towards the ...
John Dixon Hunt, Faith M. Holland,
1982
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Purple heart was also a slang term for amphetamines (from their colour and
shape) in the 1960s. purple passage an elaborate or excessively ornate passage
in a literary composition; an alternative name is purple patch. The term is a ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURPLE PASSAGE»
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US reopens Cuba mission after 54 years
In a purple passage in his presidency during which he has already chalked up major victories in healthcare, same-sex rights and trade pacts over the past two ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
On gay marriage and other issues, judges, 'Just the law, please'
My initial reaction to both purple passages was a variation of the line associated with Sgt. Joe Friday of “Dragnet” fame. But instead of “Just the facts, Ma'am,” I ... «Los Angeles Times, May 14»
What Britain's greatest writers really thought of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Opening the case at the Old Bailey, the prosecution stated its objection to the book's "purple passages" and 30 uses of the f-word, which it claimed would ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 10»
Madeleine B. Stern, Bookseller and Sleuth, Dies at 95
(The biography was issued in a new edition by Northeastern University in 1999.) Her other biographies include “Purple Passage: The Life of Mrs. Frank Leslie” ... «New York Times, Nov 04»