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... Federation 1994-97, 62; Jose Rivero, golfer, 46; Fred Winter, racehorse trainer, 75. Anniversaries Births: 1839 Adml Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy; 1842 Sir James Dewar (born Kincardineon-Forth), physician and chemist and inventor of the vacuum flask; 1869 Sir ...

Published: Thursday 20 September 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Guilty of overblown ornamentation

... some wooden rafters - rafters being “the first and last thing we see”; at birth and at death. Those of us who live in a Thomas Hardy novel, perhaps. The average modern hospital bed is far more likely to give youaviewofaneonsign. e - I could-go on, but ...

Published: Thursday 23 November 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 904 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

Fal ay The grotesque characters of Paul Theroux’s latest novel show no signs of coming to life Hotel Honolulu by

... to have been owned by such luminaries as Sir Joshua Reynolds (to whom it was dedicated), Leigh Hunt, Thomas Carlyle, Warren Hastings and Thomas Hardy. So fascinating do I find this study of words refracted through so many different minds that I notice ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1099 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

ly is mightier than the pen

... research and writing but has already brought the author comparisons with literary greats such as James Joyce, Dylan Thomas and Thomas Hardy. Gordon, who represents 130 authors, said he can remember “It was a:g utllx:nkcflicit&d i I thi t time. 1 didmt think ...

Published: Sunday 22 September 2002
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 992 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Regional

... Neil Brand and Michael Eaton's play with music 10:00 The World Tonight. 10:45 Book At Bedtime: The Woodlanders. Written By Thomas Hardy. 11:00 Last Man In. Sports and humour show. 12:00 News. 12:30 The Late Book: Writing At The Kitchen Table. Final part of ...

Published: Friday 22 December 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1046 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

20 SEPTEMBER 1440: Eton College founded. 18519: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, with fleet of five ..

... Federation 1994- 97, 63; Jose Rivero, golfer, 47; Fred Winter, racehorse trainer, 76. Anniversaries Births: 1839 Adml Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy; 1842 Sir James Dewar, (born Kincardineon-Forth) physician and chemist and inventor of the vacuum flask; 1869 Sir ...

Published: Friday 20 September 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 473 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

NOR THERN BELLE

... the class barriers that prevent her from being who she longs tobe. It was arich part and fabulous writing.” Echoes of a Thomas Hardy heroine are also to be found in The Claim, very loosely based on The Mayor of Casterbridge, in which Henderson plays a ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1326 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

—> conservation battles with the Forestry Commission-and hydro electric boards back: home which occupied his ..

... of cows crunching. I was hooked on the countryside. Words I discovered at an early age, too - The Child’s Book of Verse, Thomas Hardy, I was hooked on'books.. - - “Asachild] climbed trees, and I suppose my first proper climb was the gully on Ben Lui, where ...

Published: Sunday 26 May 2002
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1324 | Page: 119 | Tags: none

Lord MacLehose

... - ] Births: 1740 llie Marquis € Sade, French aristocrat and whose sexual perversions g i rise to the word sadism;. 18 Thomas Hardy, novelist and 1857 Sir Edward Elgar, cor ] 1920 Johnny Speight, pla Deaths: 1581 Earl of Mo regent (executed for comp in ...

Published: Friday 02 June 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1674 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

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... Poly Amanshaa, -1 Course Dactor. 17 03-6 Rebel (161 K MOrGln' 1011 eHST 7 099 e uches (1 3 A Croon§ 11 1 KRenws @) 4720~ THOMAS HARDY BREWING ANDPACKAGING 5:15 = BRITISH EQUESTRIAN INSURANCE 5 1098-0 Fort Knex e 28) R Pouon 10100 .. Keniy ) 15 Sauoaby s ...

Published: Monday 28 May 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1419 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

Opinion THE SATURDAY PROFILE } Burma’s first lady awaits New hope for awoman who could lead her country from ..

... ‘accommodated. I was once leaning on the bar of an old pub somewhere in rural Dorset, thinking ‘mellow thoughts of beer and Thomas Hardy, when I turned round and froze in my cups to find myself face to face with a mummified, crucified cat. It was in a glass ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2569 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

BOOKS JREAMS A D IGHTMARES

... Land, it becomes part of an English tradition of cities gone wrong. Beside work by Leopardi, Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville and the later Mark Twain it counterblasts al9th-century beliefin everlasting human progress. To those ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2680 | Page: 39 | Tags: none