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Monica Descalzi
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Jane Austen fan, Shakespeare lover. Literature, history, art, and nature.
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Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
2H6 1.1
#Shakespeare
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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'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
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
MV 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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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
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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With hey, ho, the wind and the rain.
KL 3.2
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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'Tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
H 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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A piece of ice.
TOTS 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myself; for, considering the weather, a taller man than I will take cold.
TOTS 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal.
R2 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins.
RJ 4.3
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
RJ 3.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Are you so hot?
RJ 2.5
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
RJ 1.5
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Cold fire.
RJ 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The idea of his returning no more Elizabeth treated with the utmost contempt. It appeared to her merely the suggestion of Caroline's interested wishes.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM