Coventry : city & borough in Warwickshire 1888-1974, thereafter metropolitan county of West Midlands. The phrase “send to Coventry”, meaning “ostracize socially”, refers to social ostracism of individual workers by their fellows.
... at that level of excellence that it takes to participate in the Olympic Games. Dave and Linda Morecroft live with their family in Coventry, north of London. Dave Morecroft was born here, and today he supervises sports programmes for the children of Coventry. Dave Morecroft is esteemed in Great Britain. He is admired for his devotion to children, and for one magnificent day in July of 1982. On ...
... Sri Aurobindo - The Poet COVENTRY PATMORFS CHARACTERISATION OF THE POETIC PHRASE* Three Illustrations from Savitri Coventry Patmore distinguishes the poetic phrase under three heads: piquancy, felicity, magnificence. And he remarks that the supreme phrase of poetry mingles all these qualities in various measures. Let us try to define the terms ...
... and hopes relating to her Ashram of today. Your red sari in the vision is symbolic of the living expression you are seeking of your inmost heart - that "crimson-throbbing glow" (your fellow-Catholic Coventry Patmore's words) in which dreams of the Ideal bum and beat. Your meeting your brother William in this vision is not surprising, for behind his physical and mental limitations in the present life is ...
... g the achievement of the seventeenth-century "Metaphysicals", in order to add some thing about them to your Future Poetry.... There is another gap also, perhaps as serious: there is nothing about Coventry Patmore, Francis Thompson and Alice Meynell. And one other name—not belonging to either group but verging on the mystical domain—is worth inclusion: Christina Rossetti. Perhaps something on Gerard ...
... nothing" would be replaced by the flat and almost facetious "Meaning a nullity". I shall now point your attention to some other modes of kindling Page 109 to the poetic wonder. Coventry Patmore — who perhaps has not received the praise which he deserves and which perhaps his very name shows him as desiring ("Pat more") — distinguishes the poetic phrase under three heads: piquancy ...
... Mind. "It dared the force that slays, the joys that hurt," Compare: "Chased the delights that wound" —Ahana P. 163 "angel of the House"—suggests a book of poetry by Coventry Petmore. Page 388 "A tool and slave of his own slave and tool, He praises his free will and his master mind And is pushed by her upon her chosen paths; Possessor he is possessed ...
... reason when he compares this difference to the difference of his approach as between Lycidas and Paradise Lost . His temperamental turn is shown by his special appreciation of Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore and his response to Descent and Flame-Wind and the fineness of his judgment when speaking of the Hound of Heaven and the Kingdom of God , its limitation by his approach towards Paradise ...
... means the coercion of a very small minority by a huge majority in the interests of the whole nation; it consists merely in a passive abstinence from all countenance to the offender,—sending him to Coventry, in the English phrase; it is effective and, if properly applied, instantaneously effective; it involves, as the Englishman has been obliged to see, no violence, no disregard of public order, no ...
... reports from London. A metropolis disappears from the surface of the earth … The fires in the City must have been terrible … We attack Plymouth extensively and with considerable results … Reports from Coventry: it is pure hell … Again we attack Plymouth massively …” Hitler expected London to be “a rubble heap” in three months. “I have not the slightest sympathy for the British civilian populace”, he said ...
... when he compares this difference to the difference of his approach as between Lycidas and Paradise Lost. His temperamental turn is shown by his special appreciation of Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore and his response to Descent and Flame-Wind and the fineness of his judgment when speaking of the Hound of Heaven and the Kingdom of God, its limitation by his approach towards ...
... months of 1940, although Hitler had had to abandon his idea of invading Britain, the Luftwaffe sporadically continued its aerial warfare and among the cities receiving special attention were London, Coventry, Southampton, Bristol, Sheffield and Manchester. There was punitive counteraction too, and so the War entered 1941, extended to North Africa, and caused widespread destruction and dislocation. The ...
... before man as the highest spiritual ideal to be realised in life. This dynamic divine union is not only a "simple and perceived contact of the substance of the soul with that of the Divine", as Coventry Patmore describes "the most perfect form of contemplation", but it is also a constant union and communion between the transmuted substance of the individual body with the infinite luminous substance ...
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