allow everything to stay there. even seemed to have nothing of substance. And the broken mirror. Shattered with pieces lying all over the floor. Say goodbye to it. And shut that door forever. Elena ...

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) once called his countrywoman and friend Mary Barber (1685–1755) “the best Poetess of both kingdoms,” Ireland and England. This was a judgment not universally acknowledged, ...

Words of stern moral advice to a besotted young man are delivered with a brisk and even sunny touch ...

as water in a sealed pit. Bor sud, in Hebrew, is a water-proofed cistern, or sealed pit, which holds all the water that enters it and lets nothing escape. In the Talmud, Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurkinos is ...