Friday, June 18, 2021

Friday, June 11, 2021

Annie

 




Beginning with Theology, that queen of sciences.
Favorite Composers
  • Jacques Offenbach
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Favorite Artists
  • Norman Rockwell
  • Jacques-Louis David
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Favorite Poets
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Robert Frost
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • John Keats
Favorite Shakespeare Play
  • Julius Caesar
  • The Merchant of Venice
Favorite Folk Songs
  • The Battle of Otterburn
  • A Man's a Man, Robert Burns
  • Johnny has Gone for a Soldier
  • Over the Hills and Far Away, British traditional folk tune
  • This Land is your Land
  • There is a Time
  • Leatherwing Bat
  • Minstrel Boy
  • In Flanders Fields
  • Green Fields of France
  • Skye Boat Song
  • American National Anthem
  • The Minnesota Song
  • With my Swag on all my Shoulder
Favorite Books
  • Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  • Westward Ho! By Charles Kingsley
  • Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
  • Voyage of the Armada by David Howarth
  • The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
  • The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
  • Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M. Montgomery
  • Circle of the Seasons by Edwin Way Teale
  • The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
  • Utopia by Sir Thomas More
  • Abigail Adams by Natalie S. Bober
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Some Things I Have Memorized
  • Romans 12, Psalm 1, 1st Corinthians 13, Psalm 16.
  • Little Orphant Annie, James Whitcomb Riley

Book of Common Place

  • And first she called up all the doctors who give little children so much physic - they were most of them old ones, for the young ones have learned better - all but a few army surgeons, who still fancy that a baby's inside is much like a Scotch grenadier's. Chapter 5; Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley.
  • The story of the game has been traced right back to a pamphlet of 1624, well within living memory of the event; but Drake's alleged remark is a later addition: 'Plenty of time to finish the game and beat the Spaniards after......' One can only say it was just the sort of thing he would have said, if people were getting over-excited. After all, he was expecting the armada..... Whatever anyone else might do, he was not the man to let them imagine he was surprised.... Besides, it was not just a gesture of gallant nonchalance. There really was plenty of time. Chapter 9; The Voyage of the Armada, by David Howarth.
  • Our name is Equality 7-2521.... We are twenty one years old. We are six feet tall, and this is a burden, for there are not many men who are six feet tall. Ever have the Teachers and the Leaders pointed to us and frowned and said: "There is evil in your bones, Equality 7-2521, for your body has grown beyond the bodies of your brothers." Chapter 1; Anthem, by Ayn Rand.
  • "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice." Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy M. Montgomery.
  • "Sia!" Said Cary: "But if he be admitted, it must be done according to the solemn forms and ceremonies in such cases provided. Take him into the next room, Amyas, and prepare him for his initiation." "What's that?" Asked Amyas, puzzled by the word. But judging from the corner of Will's eye that initiation was Latin for a practical joke, he led forth his victim behind the arras again, and waited five minutes while the room was being darkened, till Frank's voice called to him to bring in the neophyte. Chapter 8, How the Noble Brotherhood of the Rose was Founded. Westward Ho! By Charles Kingsley.
  • Ferdinand Columbus recorded how he and his brother Diego, pages to the Queen, were mortified by these wretches hooting at them and shouting, "There go the sons of the Admiral of the Mosquitos, of him who discovered lands of vanity and delusion, the ruin and the grave of Castilian gentlemen!" Chapter 17; Christopher Columbus, Mariner, by Samuel Eliot Morison. 

Thursday, June 3, 2021