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Thought For the Day: I Have Never Thought Much of the Courage of A Lion Tamer. Inside the Cage He Is At Least Safe From Other Men
“I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no … Continue reading
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Tagged Cage, Chivalry, Courage, Destroy, Eat, Gentility, George Bernard Shaw, Harm, Ideals, Inside, Lion, Lion Tamer, Other Men, Politics, Reason, Religion, Safe, Thought, Thought For the Day
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Lessons From Tristan and Isolde
Lessons From Tristan and Isoldeby Michael DoyleLove has been the subject of great mysteryThroughout all of mankind’s fabled historySometimes life’s lessons have become legendaryFrom Shakespeare to the Athenian tragedyIt’s true what a thing it is, this fine messThat mortals confess … Continue reading
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Tagged Athenian Tragedy, Behind, Born To Die, Camelot, Chivalry, Confess, Cornwall, Courage, Courtly Love, Exception, Excess, Expectation, Fabled History, Higher Sense of Love, Honor, Ideal, Inetepretation, Justice, Knightly Code of Conduct, Legendary, Lessons, Love, Mess, Mind, Minstrelsy, Moon and Star, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Reputation, Shakespeare, Tristan and Isolde, True, Victory
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Birth of Merlin
Which was your favorite? King Arthur? Or, Merlin? Birth of Merlin by Michael Doyle In 480 AD, in Britain’s Dark Ages Arthur, Camelot and Merlin rode into its pages Shrouded in the fog of great mystery It’s half lost from … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Days, Anger, Birth, Brawn, Breath, Britain, Camelot, Castle, Child, Chivalry, Command, Counsel, Country, Dark Ages, Death, Druids, Famine, Favorite, Fog, Gods, History, King, King Arthur, Land, Legend, Lore, Magic, Merlin, Mystery, Myth, Night, Pages, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Purity, Question, Risk, Second Sight, Sincerity, Storm, Time, Violence, Wise Man, Wizard
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Don Quixote Reexamined
A hidalgo or minor nobleman gets so lost in his reading that he mistakes folklore regarding chivalry as the path of history that will lead him and through him the world to greater nobility. The intention being good. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Admonishment, Beautiful, Borrowed Time, Cervantes, Chivalry, Comic, Complexity, Correct, Don Quixote, Embrace, Examine, Excess, Fantasies, Fiction, Folklore, Folly, Good Magic, Hidalgo, History, Human Mind, Intention, Journey, Knight Errant, Lady, Laughter, Lent, Life, Literary, Mad, Man, Moments, Musical, Name, Nobility, Nobleman, Pages, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practicalities, Practice, Preach, Railing, Reach, Read, Reading, Real, Reveal, Sad, Sally, Sights, Simplicity, Spent, Substance, Tales, Tear, Tragic, Understand, Unique, Utterances, Wrong Conclusions
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Don Quixote – Cervantes
Cervantes was ransomed from Moorish slavery on September 19, 1580. Don Quixote is also know by its full title The Ingenious Nobleman Mister Quixote of La Mancha. It is the Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra which was published in … Continue reading
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Tagged Chivalry, Don Quixote, Harvard Classics, Knight, La Mancha, Moors, Novel, Sancho Panza, Slavery, Spanish Golden Age
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Froissart’s Chronicles
Froissart’s Chronicles are a historical and fairly factually accurate account of the Hundred Years’ War that was written by court historian Jean Froissart. This chronology begins with the 1326 deposition of Edward II. The chronicle depict events up until 1400 … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Century, Battle of Cercy, Chivalry, Chronicle, Havard Classics, History, Hundred Years' War, Jean Froissart
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