10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCEPTRED»
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sceptred in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sceptred and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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"Of
Sceptred Race, ..".
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Annah Robinson Watson, 2012
Written to accompany the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, the work brings to life the events and personalities that have shaped our nation.
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Film Music and Beyond: Writing on Music and the Screen, 1946-59
(The. 'Sceptred. Pall': Brahms's. Progressive. Harmony). On. the. Neapolitan.
Complex. This essay was originally published in Brahms 2. Biographical,
Documentary and Analytical Studies, edited by Michael Musgrave for Cambridge
University ...
Hans Keller, Christopher Wintle, 2006
While visiting the Sceptred Isle Club, an exclusive London men's club, with his friend Geoffrey Moore, Sheriff John LeBrun of Jekyl Island, Georgia, is on the scene when several prominent men are murdered in the club's gambling room, the ...
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Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary and Analytical Studies
CHRISTOPHER WINTLE The 'Sceptred Pall': Brahms's progressive harmony i My
title1 brings together the words of two musicians who have made seminal
contributions to Brahms studies. 'Gorgeous tragedy in sceptred pall' was the
epithet ...
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Shakespeare and National Culture
4 'This sceptred isle': Shakespeare and the British problem + Willy Maley And
some I see That two-fold balls and treble sceptres carry. (Macbeth, IV.i.119-20) A
scepter is one thing and a ladle another.1 This Shakespeared isle In the summer
...
7
A new translation of Telemachus in English verse, by G. Bagnall
Forth from the town the sceptred Kings in haste In bright procession to their forces
past. Th' imbattled troops around Salentum spread, 580 All strike their tents ; and
march beneath their head. On ev'ry fide was seen the bristling spear, The ...
François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon (abp. of Cambrai.), 1790
Unto the rest, to the sceptred kings, I would say, ' Repair now to my goodly house
; there will we kindly entertain the stranger in the great hall.' Let no one of you fail
this tryst. Nay, further, let some one bid to the gathering our divine minstrel ...
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The New Monthly Magazine
She, who upon earth ruled the souls and senses of men, as the moon rules the
surge of waters ; the acknowledged and liege Empress of all the realms of
illusion ; the crowned queen ; the throned muse; the sceptred shadow of
departed ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1831
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The New Monthly Magazine
Thou hadst thy triumphs then Purpling the street : Leaders and sceptred men -
Bow'd at thy feet. They that thy mantle wore, As gods were seen : Rome, Rome !
thou art no more As thou hast been! Romel thine imperial brow Never shall rise ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCEPTRED»
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sceptred is used in the context of the following news items.
Yanks and Limeys by Niall Barr, book review: Oversexed, overpaid …
Most Americans' first impressions of our sceptred isle were deeply unfavourable. The disputes went beyond jokes about tea and Britain's lousy weather. «The Independent, Jul 15»
Microsoft in Blighty reveals its 78 THOUSAND POUND Surface 3 …
That's about US$121,966 or AU$158,520 for those beyond Blighty's sceptred shores. And for those who haven't shopped for a hybrid laptop/tablet lately, its ... «The Register, Jul 15»
UK Fundraisers Under Pressure from Critics
... at the number of worthy-sounding bodies and their titled representatives and wonder how fundraising in the sceptred isle could have fallen into such disarray. «The Nonprofit Quarterly, Jun 15»
Wet Lancaster warmly welcomes Queen
... Richard II, the speech given by John O'Gaunt, an evocation of England's past glories, including the famous lines: "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle . «BT.com, May 15»
Illusions in the British Election Campaign
For all the pretences of modernisation, of a sceptred isle that speaks of Westminster democracy and the liberties supposedly breathing in the common law, ... «CounterPunch, Apr 15»
Reflections on the Reith Lectures: the future of medicine
Many distinguished names are to be found in the alumni of lecturers, whose origins are not confined to this sceptred isle in which the concept of these ... «OUPblog, Apr 15»
The eeriness of the English countryside
... notions of “dwelling” and “belonging”, and of the packagings of the past as “heritage”, and that locates itself within a spectred rather than a sceptred isle. «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Cricket's progress held back by its unholy trinity
And England, that sceptred isle, that seat of Mars kicked over by a country that had not even been dreamed about in the days of empire. There have been upsets ... «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»
Retro console Spectrum Vega to be made in the UK
The original ZX Spectrum is practically a UK institution -- one of the most successful computer products ever to hail from this sceptred isle. It's only fitting, then, ... «Wired.co.uk, Jan 15»
Shakespeare's England: Where do you find it today?
On the Bard's 450th birthday, take a tour of the "sceptred isle" that inspired his works - and look at how the locations have changed. From Birmingham to Milton ... «BBC News, Apr 14»
