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Book Green Grows the Holly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Suzanne Guldimann
  • Publisher : West of Moon Books
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780966766400
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Green Grows the Holly written by Suzanne Guldimann and published by West of Moon Books. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legenda

Download or read book Legenda written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The West Country

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  • Author : John Payne
  • Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
  • Release : 2011-11-10
  • ISBN : 190849350X
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book The West Country written by John Payne and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English West Country is a land of exceptional landscapes: many miles of wild, unspoilt coastline and vast expanses of wild moorland; great cities such as Exeter, Plymouth, Bath and Bristol; and market towns, villages and hamlets. Farming, mining, quarrying, fishing and trade are the traditional industries of the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. On one level, the West Country is the most English of all English regions, home of clotted cream, thatch, church spires, folksong, hobby horses and Cecil Sharp. Yet the area was trading with Mediterranean Europe before the Romans. For many years Bristol was the centre of the slave trade, and many of its great mansions were built on the proceeds of slavery. Great swathes of land in Dorset, Wiltshire and Devon are still used by the military and are off-bounds to visitors. And within the West Country is the special case of Celtic Cornwall, and the even more remote Isles of Scilly. People lived in the West Country long before Britain, or England, were invented. From the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge in Wiltshire to the menhirs of Cornwall, and the wealth of prehistoric remains on the Isles of Scilly, this has always been an inhabited landscape, crafted by men and women working closely with nature and natural forces. John Payne explores this culturally rich and varied region, revealing many facets of its distinctive and much-loved identity.

Book To Crown the Year

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  • Author : Peter Mazar
  • Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
  • Release : 2014-12
  • ISBN : 1616711892
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book To Crown the Year written by Peter Mazar and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to decorating the worship space will assist you throughout the liturgical year, helping you to discover the signs of the season in nature, in Scripture, and in the living tradition of the liturgy. With helpful tips for decorating the altar, ambo and font, shrines and vestibules, and both indoor and outdoor gathering places, this practical resource will serve as an invaluable tool for decorating your parish year after year.

Book Royal Poetrie

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  • Author : Peter C. Herman
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2011-03-15
  • ISBN : 0801459532
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Royal Poetrie written by Peter C. Herman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Poetrie is the first book to address the significance of a distinctive body of verse from the English Renaissance—poems produced by the Tudor-Stuart monarchs Henry VIII, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. Not surprisingly, Henry VIII is no John Donne, but the unique political and poetic complications raised by royal endeavors at authorship imbue this literature with special interest. Peter C. Herman is particularly intrigued by how the monarchs' poems express and extend their power and control. Monarchs turned to verse especially at moments when they considered their positions insecure or when they were seeking to aggregate more power to themselves. Far from reflecting absolute authority, monarchic verse often reveals the need for authority to defend itself against considerable, effective opposition that was often close at hand. In monarchic verse, Herman argues, one can see monarchs asserting their significance and appropriating images of royalty to enhance their power and their position. Sometimes, as in the cases of Henry and Elizabeth, they are successful; sometimes, as for James, they are not. For Mary Stuart, the results were disastrous. Herman devotes a chapter each to the poetic endeavors of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. His introduction addresses the tradition of monarchic verse in England and on the continent as well as the textual issues presented by these texts. A brief postscript examines the verses that circulated under Charles I's name after his execution. In an argument enhanced by carefully chosen illustrations, Herman places monarchic verse within the visual and other cultural traditions of the day.

Book Sam Henry s Songs of the People

Download or read book Sam Henry s Songs of the People written by Gale Huntington and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Ireland—its graces and shortcomings, triumphs and sorrows—is told by ballads, dirges, and humorous songs of its common people. Music is a direct and powerful expression of Irish folk culture and an aspect of Irish life beloved throughout the rest of the world. Incredibly, the largest single gathering of Irish folk songs had been almost inaccessible because, originally newspaper based, it was available in only three libraries, in Belfast, Dublin, and Washington D.C. Sam Henry's “Songs of the People” makes the music available to a wider audience than the collector ever imagined. Comprising nearly 690 selections, this thoroughly annotated and indexed collection is a treasure for anyone who performs, composes, studies, collects, or simply enjoys folk music. It is valuable as an outstanding record of Irish folk songs before World War II, demonstrating the historical ties between Irish and Southern folk culture and the tremendous Irish influence on American folk music. In addition to the songs themselves and their original commentary, Sam Henry's “Songs of the People” includes a glossary, bibliography, discography, index of titles and first lines, melodic index, index of the original sources of the songs and information about them, geographical index of sources, and three appendixes related to the original song series in the Northern Constitution.

Book A Christmas Posy of Carols  Songs  and Other Pieces

Download or read book A Christmas Posy of Carols Songs and Other Pieces written by Lady Lindsay (Caroline Blanche Elizabeth) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Identification  Selection  and Use of Southern Plants for Landscape Design

Download or read book Identification Selection and Use of Southern Plants for Landscape Design written by Neil G. Odenwald and published by Claitor's Law Books and Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting more than 1,000 plants--from trees and shrubs to vines and grasses--this updated edition of Odenwald and Turners guide keeps with a traditional emphasis on the practical use of plants to solve and prevent landscape design problems.

Book The Dukes of York  1385 1927

Download or read book The Dukes of York 1385 1927 written by Graham Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fatal Fictions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison L. LaCroix
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0190610786
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Fatal Fictions written by Alison L. LaCroix and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equipped with a trial process that contains its own dramatic structure. This volume explores this profound and enduring literary engagement with crime, investigation, and criminal justice. The collected essays explore three themes that connect the world of law with that of fiction. First, defining and punishing crime is one of the fundamental purposes of government, along with the protection of victims by the prevention of crime. And yet criminal punishment remains one of the most abused and terrifying forms of political power. Second, crime is intensely psychological and therefore an important subject by which a writer can develop and explore character. A third connection between criminal justice and fiction involves the inherently dramatic nature of the legal system itself, particularly the trial. Moreover, the ongoing public conversation about crime and punishment suggests that the time is ripe for collaboration between law and literature in this troubled domain. The essays in this collection span a wide array of genres, including tragic drama, science fiction, lyric poetry, autobiography, and mystery novels. The works discussed include works as old as fifth-century BCE Greek tragedy and as recent as contemporary novels, memoirs, and mystery novels. The cumulative result is arresting: there are "killer wives" and crimes against trees; a government bureaucrat who sends political adversaries to their death for treason before falling to the same fate himself; a convicted murderer who doesn't die when hanged; a psychopathogical collector whose quite sane kidnapping victim nevertheless also collects; Justice Thomas' reading and misreading of Bigger Thomas; a man who forgives his son's murderer and one who cannot forgive his wife's non-existent adultery; fictional detectives who draw on historical analysis to solve murders. These essays begin a conversation, and they illustrate the great depth and power of crime in literature.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christmas Poems

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Hollander
  • Publisher : Everyman's Library
  • Release : 1999-10-26
  • ISBN : 0375407898
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Christmas Poems written by John Hollander and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser-known Yuletide treasures as Emily Dickinson's "The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman," Anthony Hecht's "Christmas Is Coming," Rudyard Kipling's "Christmas in India," Langston Hughes's "Shepherd's Song at Christmas," Robert Graves's "The Christmas Robin," and happy surprises like Phyllis McGinley's "Office Party," Dorothy Parker's "The Maid-Servant at the Inn," and Philip Larkin's "New Year Poem."

Book The Oxford Book of Carols

    Book Details:
  • Author : Percy Dearmer
  • Publisher : London : Oxford University Press, H. Milford
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Carols written by Percy Dearmer and published by London : Oxford University Press, H. Milford. This book was released on 1928 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over 200 carols in the book, including unison and four-part arrangements.

Book The Story of Holly and Ivy

Download or read book The Story of Holly and Ivy written by Rumer Godden and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Christmas Eve and, for the toys in Mr Blossom's shop, it is their last chance to be sold. Holly, a small doll dressed especially for Christmas, wishes hard for her own special child. But the day ends and Holly is left in the window. On Christmas morning a little lost orphan girl finds herself outside the toyshop. Ivy has never had a doll to love, but when she sees Holly, she knows at once that this doll is meant specially for her. But Ivy has no money, and the shop is closed . . . The Story of Holly and Ivy is a Christmas classic by Rumer Godden, beautifully illustrated by Christian Birmingham.

Book Holly Bloom s Garden

Download or read book Holly Bloom s Garden written by Sarah Ashman and published by Flashlight Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The luminous garden scenes and playful language in this tale of late-blooming self-discovery tell the story of Holly Bloom, a girl who wants nothing more than to be a great gardener but simply doesn't seem to have the knack. Despite suggestions and support from her green-thumbed mom and siblings, Holly just can't get her garden to bloom. She waters and fertilizes and uses all the right gardening tools, but her daffodils don't grow, and her daisies keep drooping. Armed with a positive attitude and unwavering perseverance, Holly finally realizes that she does not need to grow flowers with soil and seeds to be a success. Inspired by her artistic father, she taps into her natural creative abilities and surprises everyone by growing her own unique garden—from paper, paste, pipe cleaners, and paint.

Book The Floricultural Cabinet  and Florists Magazine

Download or read book The Floricultural Cabinet and Florists Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Green Grows the Holly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Suzanne Guldimann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-01-23
  • ISBN : 9781734460186
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Green Grows the Holly written by Suzanne Guldimann and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzanne Guldimann has researched and arranged for lap harp 25 medieval and Renaissance Christmas carols. All of the pieces can be played on a harp with a range of just two and a half octaves. They can also be played on larger harps, or on any melody instrument. The book includes lyrics and historical notes, as well as illustrations. The pieces are fingered and are in the key of C, or in sharp keys. All of the pieces include chord symbols. This is the revised, third edition of the original 1998 book.