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  • L'Abbe suggests its one flaw is it stops too soon.

    On first reading "Open Wide a Wilderness" Lemon Hound 2009

  • Prefacing both Agha Shahid Ali and John Thompson, L'Abbe confronts the form and its history:

    Archive 2007-06-01 Lemon Hound 2007

  • It was a surprise then to discover work such as "Oh," a poem that I selected for inclusion in Open Field, and a poem which when L'Abbe read it at the launch of Open Field at McNally Robinson in Soho following Erin Moure, Ken Babstock, Karen Solie, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden and Anne Simpson..., was a crowd favorite:

    Anne Simpson & Sonnet L'Abbe Lemon Hound 2007

  • Prefacing both Agha Shahid Ali and John Thompson, L'Abbe confronts the form and its history:

    Anne Simpson & Sonnet L'Abbe Lemon Hound 2007

  • It was a surprise then to discover work such as "Oh," a poem that I selected for inclusion in Open Field, and a poem which when L'Abbe read it at the launch of Open Field at McNally Robinson in Soho following Erin Moure, Ken Babstock, Karen Solie, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden and Anne Simpson..., was a crowd favorite:

    Archive 2007-06-01 Lemon Hound 2007

  • L'Abbe etant un profond politique, la tourna sur l'administration, quand on fut au desert: et comme par caractere, par humeur, par l'habitude d'admirer Tite Live, il ne prise que le systeme republicain, il se mit a vanter l'excellence des republiques; bien persuade que le savant Anglois l'approuveroit en tout, et admireroit la profondeur de genie qui avoit fait deviner tous ces avantages a un Francois.

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

  • L'Abbe voulut le convaincre par Tite Live, et par quelques argumens tires de Plutarque en faveur des Spartiates.

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

  • Today we welcome as our guest speaker, Monsieur L'Abbe Arthur Maheux, who has devoted much time for many years to the cause of better understanding between the French and English cultures in Canada.

    Was The King Right 1949

  • It now affords me very great pleasure to introduce Monsieur L'Abbe Arthur Maheux, F.R.S.C., who has chosen as the subject of his address "Was The King Right?"

    Was The King Right 1949

  • Most extraordinary, however, was the success of 'L'Abbe Constantin' (1882), crowned by the

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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