Lesson #259: ‘All are not taken’: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem ‘Consolation’
📜 ‘Consolation’ ALL are not taken; there are left behind Living Beloveds, tender looks to bring And make the daylight still a happy thing,And tender voices, to
📜 ‘Consolation’ ALL are not taken; there are left behind Living Beloveds, tender looks to bring And make the daylight still a happy thing,And tender voices, to
As we draw close to the first anniversary of these regular Learn English through Literature Lessons, I thought it would be a nice celebration to
📗 “… The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. You’ve plenty; that’s the great thing; you’re, as
📗 “Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have
📘 ‘The young people were all wild to see Lyme … and to Lyme they were to go – Charles, Mary, Anne, Henrietta, Louisa, and
In our passage from Sir Walter Scott’s great historical novel Waverley (which we looked at in Part 1 of this Lesson), we see how Edward
We are so used to having a wide range of historical fiction titles at our fingertips (accessible to us) that we sometimes forget there was
📗 “Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” “I’ll warrant you’ll make plenty in
A few days ago, I mentioned how I enjoy painting whenever I have the opportunity. 🎨 To be honest, there was a time when I