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  • I have just read Wildwood Dancing today and it was another triumph – I loved the forg.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Take Five Interview: Juliet Marillier and Heir to Sevenwaters 2008

  • Blake's mind-forg'd manacles are all over the place.

    princeofcairo: Patrick McGoohan, RIP princeofcairo 2009

  • But by BRILLIANTLY changing the word to "mind-forg'd," Blake opens up the possibilities for hope and redemption -- that one can use imagination and creativity to address problems.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • None-the-less -- and perhaps this is one of those tims when my formalist federalism brings me to a different result than is produced by Ann's normative federalism specifically, their ability to "bit[e] the bullet ... [and] forg[e]t about federalism limitations entirely" -- I would prefer the court unmuddy the waters by wading back out of a swamp it never had any business being in in the first place.

    The punitive damages case. Ann Althouse 2007

  • But by BRILLIANTLY changing the word to "mind-forg'd," Blake opens up the possibilities for hope and redemption -- that one can use imagination and creativity to address problems.

    POLITICS, ON THE POEM'S OWN TERMS 2007

  • Among the poem's impressive layers is how the first draft of the 2nd stanza's last line "The mind-forg'd manacles I hear" actually was written as "The German-forg'd manacles I hear", reflecting of course the history at the time with the Hanover empire and Great Britain.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Among the poem's impressive layers is how the first draft of the 2nd stanza's last line "The mind-forg'd manacles I hear" actually was written as "The German-forg'd manacles I hear", reflecting of course the history at the time with the Hanover empire and Great Britain.

    POLITICS, ON THE POEM'S OWN TERMS 2007

  • Peopie tend to think that wildly unreasonable hchaviour in terrifvin~ circumstances can be called 'panic', and forg~ ven, but ~t s nc~t so much panic, a form of ultimate illogical fear, but a lack of time to think things through.

    Penalty Francis, Dick 1997

  • Look, I could have my men drive those sheep out of the valley in the morning and everyone would forg?

    Wyoming Territory Merritt, Jackie 1997

  • It had gone beyond the pale, from garish to a kind of queasy forg - ery, and like all counterfeits it had taken on a frightening life of its own.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

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