There has never been a book about Blake's last period, from his meeting with John Linnell in 1818 to his death in 1827, although it includes some of his greatest works. In The Traveller in the Evening, Morton Paley argues that this late phase involves attitudes, themes, and ideas that are either distinctively new or different in emphasis from what preceded them.
Among the many evening classes starting all over Dublin is an 'Introduction to Italian'. On the surface it could be just one of hundreds in which some students will succeed and some will fall along the way. But the Italian class at Mountainview School has its own special quality, and the hopes and dreams of so many people are tied up in the twice weekly lessons.The students learn far more than they ever bargained for, and by the time they are ready to set off on the promised trip to Italy at the end of the year, everyone's destiny has changed utterly.
During the War of Independence, there were many Americans who fought on the British side. It was a perilous time, with spies slipping in and out of the American lines with military information. Out story begins on a stormy evening in the Weschester hills of New York, late in the year 1780 ...
Dennis Oliver's Phrasal Verbs: A act up (no object): misbehave (for people); not work properly (for machines). "The babysitter had a difficult time. The children acted up all evening." "I guess I'd better take my car to the garage. It's been acting up lately."...........
On a warm summer evening, a red double-decker bus speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, revelling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. The couple shares a first searching kiss, and time stands still...until, in a flash of metal and glass, their car is struck at full speed by the bus's tremendous weight.
