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...“If the issue of that day had been different, the Britons and the Saxons might still have been wandering in the woods.”...
...In Virgil’s Aeneid the holm oak is a dark tree, a marker beneath which Aeneas will find a white sow with piglets when he finally lands in Italy....
...Bees need friends in farmland and woods, but do you want a ball of bees buzzing beside the main path of your garden?...
...In place of Virgil, my guide is taxi driver Stefano: the car zigzags higher, ears go pop, groves of olive and cypress give way to the realm of hornbeam, alder and oak....
...It must be tasteful and beautiful, even if shocking, and that’s what Virgil does and why we get along so well.”...
...Take the late Virgil Abloh, he says. “He was a master of making the story make sense... So we’ve got to figure that out. But we ain’t got that much time!”...
...Heti is not, alas, the Virgil to guide us out of the dark wood....
...The fashion moment that changed everything was Virgil Abloh going to Louis Vuitton....
...He worked also with utilitarian wood-and-metal furniture made for schools, factories and offices....
...Gone are the dark wood and chrome of the existing stores, replaced by a softer, warmer palette of cream and pale wood overhung with gold stars....
...As he has for many others, he’s agreed to be my Virgil on a tour of the island....
...With its simple wood frame and leather-strap arms, Cikada bears a striking resemblance to the 1933 Safari chair by Kaare Klint, the father of Danish modernism....
...Here, look — Capability Brown doing Claude, who was doing Virgil. Arcadia!”...
...glittering in the forest, Heaney flicks in among Anglo-Saxon words a grander, Latin-based adjective to underline the oddity: “green-leafed yet refulgent with gold/Like mistletoe shining in cold winter woods...
...Lost in the dark wood, Dante finds his master, Virgil, and crosses the Acheron. We left him at the gates of hell and ventured out to the local pizzeria....
...Virgil’s Pastorals....
...Dante, a figure in his own work, has lost his way in middle age and is alone and fear-ridden in the woods. Virgil, sent by the shadowy Beatrice, is about to show him Hell....
...In “Flute”, a machine gun evokes Saint-Just’s ivory flute and also Virgil’s – Finlay noted that Saint-Just’s life was “a duet between the blade and the flute”....
...Similarly, the whitewashed sculptures of found objects – a palm frond tethered to a square of discarded wood, a pan pipe formed from dishevelled scraps of wooden rods and cloth – which so brighten these...
...illustrating Dante, and Holman Hunt’s early, awkward Italianate portraits, such as “Il Dolce Far Niente”, its diverse textures precisely rendered – silken fabrics, glassy necklace and earrings, ivory and wood...
...Blake had turned 60 when, commissioned through his friend, the painter John Linnell, to illustrate a child’s edition of Virgil, he completed 17 narrative wood-engravings, each about the size of a cigarette...
...Tsvetaeva is no Virgil, and those entrapped in the Ninth Circle, unlike those of The Inferno, do not deserve their fate....
...The latest work – a towering structure of twisted and tortured wood by Deacon – dates from 1996....
...Between those woods are our 14 fields, all except one of them down to pasture....
..."They suffer first and everyone else follows suit," says Paul Wood, chief information security analyst at MessageLabs, a UK-based e-mail filtering company....
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