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Jane Austen fan, Shakespeare lover. Literature, history, art, and nature. https://janeaustensmicrocosm.wordpress.com/ @AustenMicrocosm

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · Nov 8

If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain,

Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

#EmilyDickinson

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 23h

'My dear,' replied her husband, 'I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room. I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.'
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen

Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 1d

What do you mean, Mr Bennet, by talking in this way? You promised me to insist upon her marrying him.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen

Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 2d

Don't let's forget Fanny Dashwood 😊

Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 2d

That'd be fun 😊

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 2d

The kindly Badger thrust them down on a settle to toast themselves at the fire, and bade them remove their wet coats and boots.
#KennethGrahame TWITW
#ClassicLitMonday
Art by Inga Moore
Happy #NationalBadgerDay! 🦡

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 2d

He looked kindly down on them and patted both their heads. 'This is not the sort of night for small animals to be out,' he said paternally. 'I'm afraid you've been up to some of your pranks again, Ratty. But come along; come into the kitchen.'
#KennethGrahame
#ClassicLitMonday
Art by Chris Dunn

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 2d

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

Or you may just ignore them --- saves time & energy ...

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3d

Readers reports are due soon

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

KENT
Who's there, besides foul weather?
GENTLEMAN
One minded like the weather, most unquietly.
KL 3.1
#ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth.
M 1.3
#ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

Upon this blasted heath.
M 1.3
#ShakespeareSunday

Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you:
I thought that all things had been savage here.
AYLI 2.7
#ShakespeareSunday

Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

The tyranny of the open night's too rough
For nature to endure.
KL 3.4
#ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

I will speak as liberal as the north.
O 5.2
#ShakespeareSunday

Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign.
TOTS 5.2
#ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

PETRUCHIO
Katharina, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women
What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.
WIDOW
Come, come, you're mocking: we will have no telling.
TOTS 5.2
#ShakespeareSunday

Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 3d

I know her spirits are as coy and wild
As haggards of the rock.
MAAN 3.1
#ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 4d

'I have sent for you on an affair of importance. I understand that Mr Collins has made you an offer of marriage. Is it true?' Elizabeth replied that it was. 'Very well -- and this offer of marriage you have refused?'

'I have, sir.'

#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 5d

This 👇

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 13d

Nobody can tell how much I hate quarrelling.
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 5d

A very respectable vicar. 😊
#JaneAusten #Emma
Jane Austen

Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 5d

First female Archbishop of Canterbury --- congrats! 👏🙏

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Sarah Mullally has been named the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman chosen to lead the world's 85 million Anglicans.

Sarah Mullally named the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in history of Church of England

Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, has been named Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been chosen as the spiritual leader of the Church of England.

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 5d

Mr Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed them on her face with a calm unconcern which was not in the least altered by her communication.

'I have not the pleasure of understanding you,' said he. 🙄😊

#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 6d

I came into the world with my legs forward:
Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste,
And seek their ruin that usurp'd our right?
The midwife wonder'd and the women cried
'O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!'
3H6 5.6
#Shakespeare
Happy Birthday, #RichardIII! Born #OTD 1452

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 6d

Oh! Mr Bennet, you are wanted immediately; we are all in an uproar. You must come and make Lizzy marry Mr Collins, for she vows she will not have him, and if you do not make haste he will change his mind and not have her.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 7d

Dear AI developers,
When I ask where a quote comes from, I specifically want to know its source. Not interested in a dumbed-down explanation of its meaning. That would rather point to the system's inability to understand a simple question.