How To Use Pushkin In A Sentence
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Many are small bulbs, primarily Crocus tommasianus, snowdrops, Iris reticulata and striped squill or pushkinia.
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But, aside from them, my departures from the "literal" which have been obelized by Mr. Nabokov (I hope he has to look up that word) were dictated by the desire to do justice to Pushkin in preserving some poetic tone.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
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By 1819 a busybody and informer by the name of Karazin had made a personal collection of ‘subversive literature,’ including Pushkin's verses, and turned it over to the Minister of the Interior.
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Pushkin continued his dissipated life after 1826 but with less gusto.
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I gained strength from people like Elton John, Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, Alexander Pushkin, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Edith Piaf, Karl Lagerfeld, and many more; and for your unknown contributions to my life I thank you.
Welcome to My World
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The parade of little bulbs includes crocus, winter aconite, dwarf iris (Iris reticulata), puschkinia (Pushkinia libanotica), checkered lilies (Fritillaria meleagris), spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum), species tulips and grape hyacinth.
Suzy Bales: Spring Bulbs: Nature's Wonders
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The Pushkin police officers had intended to take her to St Petersburg police station when they discovered she was a foreigner.
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The parade of little bulbs includes crocus, winter aconite, dwarf iris (Iris reticulata), puschkinia (Pushkinia libanotica), checkered lilies (Fritillaria meleagris), spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum), species tulips and grape hyacinth.
Suzy Bales: Spring Bulbs: Nature's Wonders
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Yes, Pushkin is Russia, all Russia, the national poet in the widest sense, as was strikingly shown during his centennial when each of the numerous political and intellectual fractions, from the highest official circles to the "reddest" radical cliques, claimed him for its own and could support its claim from passages in his works and in his life.
Pushkin and His Work
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As Pushkin said , Inspiration is needed in geometry just as much as poetry.
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Pushkin was a womaniser whose conquests included everyone from prostitutes to princesses.
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In the upshot, it was decided that a temporary banishment from Petersburg was advisable, and Pushkin was sent to serve in the chancellery of General Inzov, the military governor of Bessarabia, where he was kept under surveillance.
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The second of these, vast and gullied, with its own pond, and criss-crossed with pathways lined with hundred-year-old lime trees, made the strongest impression on her, possibly because it was the closest to Pushkin Street where her parents lived when she was seven years old.
'The Life of Irene Nemirovsky'
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All will pass by everything will be over . Past things will be pleasant memories Pushkin.
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Pushkin's narrators are only schematically described, because what matters is not who they are but how they perceive the world.
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We also meet his schoolmates from the Lycee at Tsarskoe Selo, an elite school founded by the emperor Alexander I, of which Pushkin's was the first graduating class.
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Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, coined the phrase "pointless and merciless" which is known to almost all Russians in a description of 18th century peasant revolts.
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Pushkin is personally present in Russian culture in a way that has no parallel, for instance, in the posthumous lives of Shakespeare, Dante, or Goethe.
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I thus aimed to avoid padding, which is the almost inevitable penalty of trying to put Pushkin into English verse and which inevitably adulterates his quality, and which I believe I avoided completely when I later translated the whole of The Bronze Horseman.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
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Upon being challenged to read Eugene Onegin aloud, he started to do this with great gusto, garbling every second word and turning Pushkin's iambic line into a kind of spastic anapaest with a lot of jaw-twisting haws and rather endearing little barks that utterly jumbled the rhythm and soon had us both in stitches.
Letters: the Strange Case of Nabokov and Wilson
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Perhaps, like Irmgard Keun, a resurgence is imminent as I discover Pushkin Press will be adding to the available work of Adalbert Stifter next year and Brigitta, the book I'm reading also readily available.
44 entries from December 2007
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Ever since I read The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig (Pushkin Press) and The Miniature Man by r. muir (Snowbooks) any book that blends some of the plot around a game of chess gets my attention.
Bookerthon 2007 - Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
