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a dedicated amateur of fashion It is hard to achieve greatness, but harder still to have the passions of greatness without the talents to realize them. For those lacking great skill, the english
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banvard's folly The life of John Banvard is the most perfect crystallization of loss imaginable. In the 1850s, Banvard was the most famous living painter in the world, and english
he being dead yet speaketh not Predicting literary reputations is a tricky business. When I was a student at the College of William and Mary, a conservative student newspaper ran a dismis english
if only geniuses knew how to scheme Imagine for a moment a universal language: translatable to color, melody, writing, touch, hand signals, and endless strings of numbers. Imagine now that thi english
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the clever dullard William Henry Ireland was a dullard. That, at least, is what everyone always told him. Born of dubious parentage in 1775 to London engraver and antiquarian english
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your gloriois day is coming We do not truly know our own times; at least, we don't know them as our descendants will. A literature scholar reading the above statement today would do a english