Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Flora Jane Thompson: (née Timms; 5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford. So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form—every… Lees verder Flora Thompson

Dante (Durante) di Alighiero degli Alighieri: (Florence, between 14 May and 13 June 1265 – Ravenna, 14 September 1321). Italian poet, writer, moral philosopher and short-lived politician. His main work is considered La divina commedia (translation The Divine Comedy). It is a poem in three parts about a journey through the afterlife, from Hell (Inferno),… Lees verder Dante

Sarah Doudney: (15 January 1841, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford). English fiction writer and poet. She is best known for her children’s literature and her hymns. Farewell, old year; we walk no more together; I catch the sweetness of thy latest sigh, and, crowned with yellow brake and withered heather, I see… Lees verder Sarah Doudney

Katharine Sergeant Angell White: (born Katharine Sergeant; September 17, 1892 – July 20, 1977). American writer and the fiction editor for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1960. In her obituary, printed in The New Yorker in 1977, William Shawn wrote, “More than any other editor except Harold Ross himself, Katharine White gave The… Lees verder Katherine S. White

Dave Eggers: (Boston (Massachusetts), 12 March 1970). American author and editor. Through the small tall bathroom window, the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.

Andrew Newell Wyeth: (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 12 July 1917 – there, 16 January 2009). American realist painter. His best-known work is Christina’s World (1948). I prefer winter and fall when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story… Lees verder Andrew Wyeth

Hamilton Wright Mabie: (December 13, 1846 – December 31, 1916). American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Adam Frederic Duritz: (Baltimore, 1 August 1964). American musician and producer. He is a singer and co-founder of Counting Crows. A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

Bai Juyi: Chinese poet during the Tang dynasty. (born in 772 A. D. in Xinzheng, Henan, died in 846 A. D. in Luoyang). His family name (xing or shi) was Bai, his given name (ming) Juyi and his address name (zi) according to Chinese custom was Letian. ‘Juyi’ means ‘he who dwells in the simple’.… Lees verder Bai Juyi

Mercy Otis Warren: (Barnstable, 25 September 1728 – Plymouth, 19 October 1814). American poet, playwright and pamphlet writer who was mainly active during the American Revolution. On the evening of December, General Washington in a most severe season, crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than men in the… Lees verder Mercy Otis Warren