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A nephew of John Harmar the scholar, he was born at Churchdown, near Gloucester, about 1594, and was educated at Winchester College.He obtained a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1610, at the age of 16; graduated B.A. 15 December 1614, and M. A. 18 June 1617, and took holy orders.
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
Thomas Tusser (c. 1524 – 3 May 1580) was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, an expanded version of his original title, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, first published in 1557. For Tusser the garden was the domain of the housewife, and the 1562 text expands on this theme.
Best Christmas Poems 1. Jesus Christ Emmanuel. Journeying to Bethlehem, a long and tiring trek Every bed was full that night, no matter where they checked Stable is empty, ...
Harmer was called "Little Mother of the Movies". [13] She worked at the Famous Players–Lasky studio as head of the reading department, evaluating scripts. Later she was "literary assistant" to William C. de Mille, [14] and adapted stories for the screen. She was described as "a little white-haired old lady, simply dressed in gray" in 1921. [15]
Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...
James Harmer (1777–1853) was an English solicitor, involved in the investigation of miscarriages of justice, radical politics, and local government in London, where he served as an alderman. He served as a model for Jaggers, the Charles Dickens character from Great Expectations .
Courtesy of MyKayla Skinner/Instagram Olympic gymnast MyKayla Skinner and husband Jonas Harmer’s relationship has been going strong since college. The pair met when Skinner was a student at the ...