Sentences with phrase «long love of literature»

But librarians know what kids are reading and can recommend books to them, which can develop into a life - long love of literature.»

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The love poetry of this period of Indian literature is characterized by a deep longing for communion with God.13 The other side of the reaction against the rise of Shankara's Advaita Vedantic thought was a more philosophic one.

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

To the Wonder, like The End of the Affair and Brideshead Revisited belongs to a long tradition of semi-autobiographical literature mixing Catholicism, love, and adultery.

Buddhist literature contains wonderful examples of love for the enemy, as in the story of King Long - Sufferer, who, with his wife, was cut to pieces by the neighboring King Brahmadatta.

His philological approach to language, encouraged by Erasmus and the whole neo-classical movement, together with his long training in rhetoric and his love of classical literature, all contributed to his success.

Though I committed quite a few poems to heart using memory techniques, I still haven't tackled a work of literature longer than «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.»

The eternal mystery of love, its ebb and flow, its comedy and drama, has long been a favorite subject of literature and, in its Manhattan variety, of Woody Allen films.

Established in 2013 by Royal Decree issued by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, the Foundation aims to foster a life - long love for all literature.

Novelists long ago recognized this truth; literature is full of characters falling in love with the people in paintings, obsessing over enigmatic figures or shapes, feeling intimidated — or intensely disappointed, in the case of Madame Bovary — by their first sighting of a tarry Old Master.

Silvey's elegant prose touches on racism, adultry, truth and lies, human weakness, falling in love, trust, small - town boredom, cricket, coming of age, love of literature, hope and despair and long - kept secrets.