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...female friends; how he (mythically) quarreled with Rabelais over a point of style; how Queen Bess of England sent him presents where he dwelt in his fine chateau, fattening on the income from rich abbeys and priories; how Mary, the little prisoner queen of Scotland, addressed him from her dungeon; how Tasso, poet of Italy, consulted him on this and that matter of technique? With most of the other frills and furbelows of his day, priceless and brilliant though they were, Poet Pierre is all but forgotten save by those French folk who make it their business to keep alive...
...Come dungeon dark or gallows grim...
...Hendry of the Massachusetts State Prison in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "No longer are prisoners bolted to walls in their cells, made to walk lock step with a ball and chain around their foot, or fed on bread and water and forced to live in a dungeon. The life of a prison inmate today corresponds to average everyday life with of course necessary restrictions...
...scene of the second act is the dungeon, and for a moment, just after the curtain is up, there is a true dramatic touch in the sight of Godred praying in the moonlight. Lady Silchester visits him in his cell and is discovered by Lord Henry Fitzwalter, who loves her. Tableau: frightened heroine, brave hero, scurvy villain. Godred conquers by means of his "evil...
...object of ridicule to the surrounding peoples as a nation whose one possession was a faith in God and a true religion. A nation or a man that has not learned to be laughed at with composure can never accomplish anything. The scoffer shuts himself up in the dungeon of his own mind. Knowledge and love and truth can come only to him that keeps his heart and mind open to receive them. It is pitiful to see a man who deliberately scorns the beauties of art or nature. Infinitely more pitiful is it to see one who scorns religion...