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Thomas Love Peacock wrote the lines, though George Borrow might have written them. Wanderiuster Baerlein might have written them too. It is in this tone, rare in English literature, that he tells of his roamings in Transylvania...
Watertown: Carbone, g.; Bullen, r.f.; Peacock, l.f.; Kalfatis, r.h.; Degisso, c.h.; Puglies, l.h.; Wallace, o.r.; Allajajin, i.r.; Ovonian, c.; Galespi...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...
...verse & tales), has written many a prose book which critics rank as high as any of his verse. An enthusiastic fictioneer, he sometimes lectures on the art. Married, he has four children, lives in London. Other books: Songs of Childhood, Poems, The Listeners and Other Poems, The Return, Peacock Pie, The Veil and Other Poems, The Riddle and Other Stories...
After scrutinizing the famed "Peacock Throne," the experts informed His Majesty that some substitution of paste jewels had been made by the weak, do-nothing former Royal House of Persia which he overthrew in 1925. "Then, gentlemen," cried the new Shah, dynamic, dramatic, "you must buy me other jewels!" What is left genuine of the Peacock Throne today may be "conservatively valued," according to the experts, thus: Headpiece $10,000,000 Arms & Legs 25,000,000 Tailpiece...