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Oct. 19: Canaletto, Jonathan Swift, Edna St. Vincent Millay


Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism.Wikipedia
Born: February 22, 1892, Rockland, Maine, United States
Died: October 19, 1950, Austerlitz, New York, United States
Spouse: Eugen Jan Boissevain (m. 1923–1949)
Movies: Hitler's Madman
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

http://hcshakespeare.blogspot.tw/2016/02/what-lips-my-lips-have-kissed-and-where.html

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Canaletto, the most celebrated view painter of eighteenth-century Venice, was born on this day in 1697. http://met.org/2ywpuhk
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, 1697–1768) | Venice: Santa Maria della Salute




Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Wikipedia
Born: November 30, 1667, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Died: October 19, 1745, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Education: Hertford College, Oxford(1694), University of Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin
Movies: Gulliver's Travels, The 3 Worlds of Gulliver, MORE
Quotes

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
May you live all the days of your life.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

"I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."
—from GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (1726)

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: Part 2 Chapter 6
#OnThisDay in 1745 Jonathan Swift dies. In his last will and testament, Jonathan Swift included his own epitaph, carefully specifying that it should be “deeply cut and strongly gilded” into a black marble tablet set “seven feet from the ground.” Translated from the Latin original, the inscription reads:
“Herein is deposited the body of Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Divinity and Dean of his Cathedral Church, where savage indignation can no longer tear at his heart; go traveler and imitate, if you can, one who strove with all his strength to champion liberty.”


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