Monica Descalzi
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Jane Austen fan, Shakespeare lover. Literature, history, art, and nature.
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Pinned
If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
#EmilyDickinson
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
#EmilyDickinson
The Bennets were engaged to dine with the Lucases, and again during the chief of the day, was Miss Lucas so kind as to listen to Mr Collins.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The Bennets were engaged to dine with the Lucases, and again during the chief of the day, was Miss Lucas so kind as to listen to Mr Collins.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
Everything's fine as long as flannel waistcoats are not mentioned 😊
Every year it becomes more dangerous to read Jane Austen:
"she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment"
"she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment"
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Everything's fine as long as flannel waistcoats are not mentioned 😊
'He would certainly have done more justice to simple and elegant prose. I thought so at the time; but you would give him Cowper.'
'Nay, mama, if he is not to be animated by Cowper!'
#JaneAusten #SenseAndSensibility
#WilliamCowper, born #OTD 1731
Jane Austen
'Nay, mama, if he is not to be animated by Cowper!'
#JaneAusten #SenseAndSensibility
#WilliamCowper, born #OTD 1731
Jane Austen
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
'He would certainly have done more justice to simple and elegant prose. I thought so at the time; but you would give him Cowper.'
'Nay, mama, if he is not to be animated by Cowper!'
#JaneAusten #SenseAndSensibility
#WilliamCowper, born #OTD 1731
Jane Austen
'Nay, mama, if he is not to be animated by Cowper!'
#JaneAusten #SenseAndSensibility
#WilliamCowper, born #OTD 1731
Jane Austen
My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.
#JaneAusten #Letters 18th Dec 1798
Happy Birthday, #WilliamCowper!
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #Letters 18th Dec 1798
Happy Birthday, #WilliamCowper!
Jane Austen
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.
#JaneAusten #Letters 18th Dec 1798
Happy Birthday, #WilliamCowper!
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #Letters 18th Dec 1798
Happy Birthday, #WilliamCowper!
Jane Austen
We have got Boswell's "Tour to the Hebrides", and are to have his " Life of Johnson"; and, as some money will yet remain in Burdon's hands, it is to be laid out in the purchase of Cowper's works.
#JaneAusten #Letters 25 Nov 1798
Happy Birthday, #WilliamCowper!
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #Letters 25 Nov 1798
Happy Birthday, #WilliamCowper!
Jane Austen
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
We have got Boswell's "Tour to the Hebrides", and are to have his " Life of Johnson"; and, as some money will yet remain in Burdon's hands, it is to be laid out in the purchase of Cowper's works.
#JaneAusten #Letters 25 Nov 1798
Happy Birthday, #WilliamCowper!
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #Letters 25 Nov 1798
Happy Birthday, #WilliamCowper!
Jane Austen
And the conclusion of all was the comfortable declaration that, though he had been invited only to a family dinner, she would take care to have two full courses.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
And the conclusion of all was the comfortable declaration that, though he had been invited only to a family dinner, she would take care to have two full courses.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
After lamenting it, however, at some length, she had the consolation of thinking that Mr Bingley would be soon down again and soon dining at Longbourn.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
After lamenting it, however, at some length, she had the consolation of thinking that Mr Bingley would be soon down again and soon dining at Longbourn.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
But even this partial communication gave her a great deal of concern, and she bewailed it as exceedingly unlucky that the ladies should happen to go away just as they were all getting so intimate together.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
But even this partial communication gave her a great deal of concern, and she bewailed it as exceedingly unlucky that the ladies should happen to go away just as they were all getting so intimate together.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
I have been listening to dreadful Insanity. - It is Mr Haden's firm beleif that a person not musical is fit for every sort of Wickedness. - I ventured to assert a little on the other side, but wished the cause in abler hands.
#JaneAusten #Letters 24 Nov 1815
Jane Austen
#Shakespeare
#JaneAusten #Letters 24 Nov 1815
Jane Austen
#Shakespeare
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I have been listening to dreadful Insanity. - It is Mr Haden's firm beleif that a person not musical is fit for every sort of Wickedness. - I ventured to assert a little on the other side, but wished the cause in abler hands.
#JaneAusten #Letters 24 Nov 1815
Jane Austen
#Shakespeare
#JaneAusten #Letters 24 Nov 1815
Jane Austen
#Shakespeare
Why Thornton is so important to the Brontë story
Interesting book review by @nickholland.bsky.social
#Brontës #BrontëBirthplace
www.annebronte.org/2025/11/23/b...
Interesting book review by @nickholland.bsky.social
#Brontës #BrontëBirthplace
www.annebronte.org/2025/11/23/b...
Bronte Book Review: The Birthplace Of Dreams
The Brontës wrote some of the world’s greatest books, as I’m sure we would all agree, and there have also been many fine, informative and entertaining books written about them and their work. Bront…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Why Thornton is so important to the Brontë story
Interesting book review by @nickholland.bsky.social
#Brontës #BrontëBirthplace
www.annebronte.org/2025/11/23/b...
Interesting book review by @nickholland.bsky.social
#Brontës #BrontëBirthplace
www.annebronte.org/2025/11/23/b...
Let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
MV 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
MV 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
MV 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
MV 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.
AYLI 2.1
#ShakespeareSunday
The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.
AYLI 2.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.
AYLI 2.1
#ShakespeareSunday
The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.
AYLI 2.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myself; for, considering the weather, a taller man than I will take cold.
TOTS 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
TOTS 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myself; for, considering the weather, a taller man than I will take cold.
TOTS 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
TOTS 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life.
Happy Birthday, #GeorgeEliot! #Middlemarch
Happy Birthday, #GeorgeEliot! #Middlemarch
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life.
Happy Birthday, #GeorgeEliot! #Middlemarch
Happy Birthday, #GeorgeEliot! #Middlemarch
They agreed that Mrs Bennet should only hear of the departure of the family, without being alarmed on the score of the gentleman's conduct.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
They agreed that Mrs Bennet should only hear of the departure of the family, without being alarmed on the score of the gentleman's conduct.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen