In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as John Milton's example. "Commonplace book" is at times used with an...
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Look up commonplace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Commonplace may refer to: Commonplace book Literary topos, the concept in rhetoric based on "commonplaces"...
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Pessoa's astute melancholy. What is this Livro do Desassossego? Neither 'commonplace book', nor 'sketchbook', nor 'florilegium' will do. Imagine a fusion of...
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A zibaldone (plural zibaldoni) is an Italian vernacular commonplace book or notebook containing a wide variety of vernacular texts, copied into a small...
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Scrapbooking (redirect from Scrap book)
that included recipes, quotations, letters, poems, and more. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests. Friendship albums...
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Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783–1785 is the first of three commonplace books that were produced by the poet. The contents cover drafts of songs and...
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Richard Hill's Commonplace Book, or Oxford, Balliol College MS 354, is a manuscript collection of late-medieval English poems and other miscellaneous items...
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record personal ideas, notes, and accounts, such as notebooks, logbooks, commonplace books, and diaries. These books are rarely published and are typically...
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used this for a brief synopsis of a new story outlined in his own Commonplace Book at first in August 1925, which developed organically out of the idea...
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The Book of Magical Charms, is a handwritten occult commonplace book composed in England in the seventeenth century and currently in the holdings of the...
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also used in the tradition of the commonplace book and note-taking. A well known example is Isaac Newton's Waste Book in which he did much of the development...
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(January 16, 2014). "やおい穴イベント(後編)" [Yaoi Hole Event (Part 2)]. 備忘録(白峰彩子) [Commonplace Book: Ayako Shiramine] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on December...
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after which he returned to Rome. He is famous for his Attic Nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism...
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17th-century commonplace books which include Sonnet 2, the most popular sonnet to appear in such collections. In Margaret Bellasys' commonplace book the poem...
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xvii–xviii. Wilson, Douglas L., ed. (1989). Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 159. Jefferson...
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gleaned from my own beginnings as a writer of fantasy, which I suspect was commonplace among my colleagues. In my youth, I sidestepped Tolkien entirely, finding...
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autobiography of Benjamin Rush; his Travels through life together with his Commonplace book for 1789–1813. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Fox, Claire G.; Miller...
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to become a poet. He continued to write poems and songs and began a commonplace book in 1783, while his father fought a legal dispute with his landlord...
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editor of The Commonplace Book of American Poetry, a work which has at least the merit of not belying its title, and is exceedingly commonplace". The American...
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which served as a model for commonplace books and inspired at least ten different published editions of commonplace book templates in Europe and the Americas...
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John Syme (lawyer) (section The First Commonplace book)
his wealthy friends in Liverpool. Burns's Commonplace Book of 1783–1785 was the first of three commonplace books that were produced by the poet. The contents...
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17th-century British music manuscript commonplace book Drexel 4257, a 17th-century British music manuscript commonplace book Drexler This disambiguation page...
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in Lakeport, California, where he helped publish H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book and several other items from Beck's Futile Press. From Lakeport was...
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the creator of a manuscript commonplace book featuring the work of women writers of her circle and compiler of a printed book of prose and poetry. Milcah...
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Germanisches Nationalmuseum in 1852. The manuscript is a pragmatic commonplace book apparently compiled for the scribe's personal use. It is an early example...
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Obsidian (software) Roam TiddlyWiki Adaptive hypermedia Card file Commonplace book Drakon-chart Memex Semantic desktop User modeling Chatti, M. (2012)...
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(1919) The Brief Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler (1919) Commonplace Book (1919–1935) Looking Backward (1920) For What Does the United Stand...
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Autobiography Automatic indexing Bullet journal Coloring diary Commentarii Commonplace book Diary studies Electronic organizer Fake memoirs Hipster PDA Journal...
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Thomas Jefferson (category American book and manuscript collectors)
including agriculture. Jefferson kept two commonplace books: from about age 15 to 30, he compiled a book of sayings and quotations, published in the...
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