Fancy Flight

Author : Karen Davies
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595241835

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Fancy Flight by Karen Davies Pdf

Fancy Flight is a collection of poems written by Karen A. Davies, for you, in hopes that you may find that special place where your heart remembers its name. Pixus the Pegasus will guide you through your flight to the shores of lovenock island to the mountains of darkwind cave. Sit back, enjoy your "flight of fancy" and let Pixus astound your senses and entertain your imagination! To begin your flight, Pixus whinnies these words to you, "My name is Pixus and I welcome all, the young, the old, the short, the tall. I'm so glad you could stop by. Come dream with me and dry your eye." My master worked real hard, you see on lots and lots of poetry. So glide with me through day or night. I'll guide you on your "fancy flight!"

Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Apollo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781838937867

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Flights of Fancy by Richard Dawkins Pdf

Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces? Richard Dawkins explores the wonder of flight: from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but spectacular bird Argentavis magnificens, from the Wright flyer and the 747, to the Tinkerbella fairyfly and the Peregrine falcon. But he also explores flights of the mind and escaping the everyday a through science, ideas and imagination.

Author : Willi Fischer Jed
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781669822882

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Fancy’s Flight by Willi Fischer Jed Pdf

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Author : Jim CROW
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : African Americans
ISBN : BL:A0017792015

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Jim Crow's Vagaries, or, Black flights of fancy: containing a choice collection of nigger melodies. To which is added, the erratic life of Jim Crow by Jim CROW Pdf

Author : Marilyn J. Young,Michael K. Launer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014552304

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Flights of Fancy, Flight of Doom by Marilyn J. Young,Michael K. Launer Pdf

Author : Maura Smyth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319494272

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Women Writing Fancy by Maura Smyth Pdf

This book brings to the foreground the largely forgotten “Fancy” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and follows its traces as they extend into the nineteenth and twentieth. Trivialized for its flightiness and femininity, Fancy nonetheless provided seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers such as Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and Anna Barbauld a mode of vision that could detect flaws in the Enlightenment’s patriarchal systems and glimpse new, female-authored worlds and genres. In carving out unreal, fanciful spaces within the larger frame of patriarchal culture, these women writers planted Fancy—and, with it, female authorial invention—at the cornerstone of Enlightenment empirical endeavor. By finally taking Fancy seriously, this book offers an alternate genealogy of female authorship and a new framework for understanding modernity’s triumph.

Author : Bernadette Bland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781450284530

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Flights of Fancy by Bernadette Bland Pdf

Life is filled with emotional highs and lows. Riding the wave of this experience is part of living, but for poet Bernadette Bland, dreaming was even more important. No matter the attitude, mood, or circumstance, Ms. Bland has always believed in the beauty of life. Never to be deterred from her hearts desire, she has ridden her own life wave with an eye to her dreams and an eye to the beauty of nature. In her new poetry collection, Flights of Fancy, Ms. Bland shares her imagery with the outside world. She delves into the lavish splendor of nature in Drifting Grace: Gods Art Show. She peers behind the protective mask of a weeping clown in Behind the Mask. She recalls watching her mother slowly grow old in the poignant Mama. In all her words, she reveals her deepest yearnings and fears with selfless honesty. Flights of Fancy is an example of an imagination set free. Ms. Bland fills her poetry with wonder and will leave you longing to step out into the sun. She is not afraid to depict the sometimes traumatic rollercoaster of life; yet she encourages us to move on, move up, and not look back. Within every word, she calls to the reader, challenging each one of us to never stop dreaming!

Author : Debbie Sullivan
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781098042608

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Flight of Fancy by Debbie Sullivan Pdf

Later in life, Debbie realized she had unfulfilled hopes and dreams God placed in her heart when she was young. She knew God wanted her to share with children of all ages that it's never too late to dream. So she got together with her husband, grown-up children, and oldest grandson to come up with this little book of hopes and dreams. It is her desire for children who read it to know God has so much more in store for them than an ordinary life. For grown-ups who read it, she hopes it will bring them back to dreaming again...Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:20 - 21)

Author : John Owens Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101068170826

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Clara; Or, Fancy's Tale by John Owens Howard Pdf

Author : Cindy Dell Clark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226107783

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Flights of Fancy, Leaps of Faith by Cindy Dell Clark Pdf

Through the mysteries and myths of Christmas and Easter, families balance the values of receiving and giving, of growth and sacrifice. Each aspect of the Santa myth, from his slide down a chimney to his big red suit, plays a part in a child's imagination. Through their offerings of milk and cookies and their letter writing, children bring their relationship to Santa into developing attitudes toward giving and receiving gifts. The Easter Bunny story, with its ritual egg hunt and baskets of brightly colored candy, is explored in terms of life and its possibility of growth. In these examples, Clark shows how children play an active role in constructing family rituals and cultural reality, since their willingness to make the stories their own helps to renew the traditions.

Author : Walter A Turner
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595211678

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Fancy's Way by Walter A Turner Pdf

Lieutenant Dan Fancy is a top Navy pilot. He has just been reassigned to Miramar Naval Air Station, "Fighter Town", where he hopes to make a fresh start and jump start his career. A failed marriage and a bout of heavy drinking have put him seriously off track. Life at Miramar begins auspiciously as Fancy is reunited with old friends. He begins to prove himself when plunged into rigorous training before Enterprise's six month deployment to the Western Pacific. However, when Fancy meets Cody Thorn and her daughter Amanda, things take a turn he wasn't counting on. The story gives readers a rare glimpse of life on an aircraft carrier, illuminating the lives the men who fly the dangerous missions from the massive floating airfields. Fancy must not only perform under the normal stresses of flying off a carrier, but he must also do so under intense emotional stress when he learns that Cody has been seriously injured by her ex-husband. Unable to be at Cody's side, the situation is a haunting reminder of the events that cost him his first marriage. Fancy must continue to focus on his duties without allowing his personal anxieties to interfere with the demanding tasks before him.

Author : Mary Huestis Fawcett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435002175800

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Poems by Mary Huestis Fawcett Pdf

Author : Peter Tate
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307783974

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Flights of Fancy by Peter Tate Pdf

The perfect bedside companion for every bird-watcher and nature lover, inside Flights of Fancy you’ll find: Cranes “Don’t promise the crane in the sky, but give the titmouse in your hand.” Russian proverb Magpies “One for sorrow, two for joy…” Traditional English rhyme Owls “The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil sign.” Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III Peacocks “The peacock is ashamed of its large black feet.” Medieval Persian tradition Ravens “When the raven tried to bring fire to the world, ash turned its feathers black.” Cherokee Indian legend Swans “Sewing a swan’s feather into your husband’s pillow will keep him faithful.” British superstition

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281088

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Adam White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319538594

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John Clare's Romanticism by Adam White Pdf

This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period – in particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare’s original contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how he explores a wide range of concerns and preoccupations which are central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics, including ‘fancy’, the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, ‘poesy’, and a love lyric marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere expression. At the heart of this book is the claim that the hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes, and abstract qualities of Clare’s lyric poetry situate him firmly within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to one of the most fascinating eras of English literature.