Oscar Wilde

Hi! Hope everyone is ok. What do you think about this quote?

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

OSCAR WILDE

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

Found this poem today and decided to share with you! Even though winter is over)))

Those Winter Sundays

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blue-black cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze.  No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden(1913-1980)

Express vocab quiz

Good morning! Here is a new express vocab quiz for you! Just 5 min!

                    Circumspection     Fugitive      Threadbare

1.     This picture brought such an agony of pleasurable suffering that he worked it over and over again in his mind and set it up in new and varied lights, till he wore it _______.  (Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark )

2.     Xodar alone was care-free--a ______ and outlaw, he could be no worse off in Helium than elsewhere. ( The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)

3.     What was needed now was not bravery, but ________. (The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G.)

New Revision

Finally, I can say good morning to you!

                                      Circumspection      Fugitive     Threadbare

1.     At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment and saw that the hail curtain had worn ______, and that the sky was lightening with the promise of the Sun. (The Time Machine by Wells, H.G.)

2.     The magnificent spectacle cheered the hearts of the three ________s and gave them fresh energy. ( A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan)

3.     Prudence and ________ are necessary even to the best of men. (The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry)

Promised quiz

Good evening again! It seems I work only at night!)))Here is my promised quiz with new words!

   Effusive       Embellished     Threadbare  

1.     He could hear nothing, but the drip, drip on the _______ carpet. ( The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar)

2.     His manner was not __________. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan)

3.     Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty ___________ shape of many species of sharks.  (Moby Dick  by Melville, Herman)