Lingue

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O Wedding-Guest! this sent both been
Alone on a wide wide sea:
So lonely 'twas, that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
At first the intrusion is resented, but the story is remarkable indeed, and the listener - who, of course, represents you, the reader - soon falls captive to the building suspense, responding at first with f

The demographic revolution

For some years young people leaving school or university have experienced great difficulty in finding a job. In many parts of Britain factories and offices closed down and a lot of people were unemployed.
Every year hundreds of thousands of teenagers left school, all of them looking for a job, and this somet...

He imposed very heavy taxes and confiscated the lands of the nobles.
Britain became very rich during his reign.
In 1509 Henry VII died leaving a very strong and safe crown to his eleven years old son Henry VIII. He was a cruel man and he spent all his father’ s money fighting wars against France. He enjoyed deer hunting, archery and hawking in t

The highest judicial authority is the Supreme Court. Its nine members are appointed by the President and serve on the Court for life.
Governo Federale
Esistono 3 branchie indipendenti di governo: esecutivo, legislativo e giudiziario. Il presidente è il capo della branchia esecutiva e il capo dello stato. E’ eletto dal popolo per un periodo di 4

Feeling and emotion
Free imagination
Exotic places
Search for sensation
The super-natural
Subjective feeling for nature
The Middle-Ages
Pathos
==> A COMMON DISTASTE for the FORMALITY
ELEGANCE
ARTIFICIALITY of the Augustans
NEW AESTHETIC AND SOCIAL THEORIES
YOUNG
==> GENIUS = a divine gift, a produ

When King James of Scotland became king of England too, the two countries agreed to unit their flags into one to form what was called the Union Flag of Great Britain.
The Union Jack was adopted about two hundred years later, when the Parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland joined into a single Parliament. On that occasion the emblem of Ireland's

The Great Exhibition mystery
A mother and her daughter arrived in Paris from Marseilles, where they had disembarked from India. They reached their hotel, which was one of the most famous hotels in Paris, and they had booked two single rooms. They signed the register. The mother took room 342. After the mother feel ill and took to bed. The...

Guardai i serpenti d'acqua:
Loro si muovevano in piste di splendente bianco,
E quando si alzavano, la luce di folletto
Cadeva in fiocchi canescenti.

Fra l'ombra della nave
Guardai il loro abito ricco:
Azzurri, verde lucente, e nero del velluto,
Loro si avvolgevano e nuotavano; e ogni pista
Era un ba

Importance of the Work:
Though not perhaps the best of Poe's short stories, it has achieved its own place as one of the most interesting and hair-raising works of American short fiction. Religious symbolism abounds, as the "wild, sulphurous lustre" of the cell connotes a scene of hellfire and brimstone, and the hand of the French General assumes a l