The visit of the three pilgrim " Scots " ( i. e. Irish ) to Alfred in 891 is undoubtedly authentic.

Remarkably, Alfred, undoubtedly with the advice and aid of his court scholars, translated four works himself: Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, St. Augustine's Soliloquies, and the first fifty psalms of the Psalter.

Fortuitously this was early attached to a very notable manuscript, Asser's Life of King Alfred, which undoubtedly assisted its survival.

He stayed in Paris and studied under Léon Bonnat, and undoubtedly came under the influence of contemporary impressionists -- Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edouard Manet.

Coward recorded that while he was refining his original ideas for the play, " Alfred had suggested a few stage directions which if followed faithfully, would undoubtedly have landed all three of us in gaol ".

Alfred Hitchcock's films were strongly believed to have been extensively storyboarded to the finest detail by the majority of commentators over the years, although later research indicates that this was exaggerated for publicity purposes.

My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.

Tessie could do nothing for Alfred.

Instead she waited for Alfred to get better and take care of her.

Alfred was dressed for his trip to the hospital.

Alfred, leaning on Meltzer, stopped for a minute to look at Tessie.

-- it evaporated, disappeared, and came back to the earth as rain -- maybe for another well or another stream or another Alfred Alpert.

On New Year's Eve, Alfred Harcourt drove him up the Hudson to Bill Brown's Training Camp, a well-known establishment for the speedy if temporary rehabilitation of drunkards who could no longer help themselves.

-- Alfred Hayes, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said Tuesday `` there is no present need for far-reaching reforms '' which would basically alter the international financial system.

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

* Henry, Lyell, Jr. Zig-Zag-and Swirl: Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness, University of Iowa Press, 1991.

Alfred the Great is scolded by his subject, a neatherd's wife, for not turning the breads but readily eating them when they are baked in her cottage.

By terms of the treaty, moreover, Alfred was to have control over the Mercian city of London and its mints — at least for the time being.

After the signing of the treaty with Guthrum, Alfred was spared any large-scale conflicts for some time.

This was not, however, the point in which Alfred came to be known as King of England ; in fact he would never adopt the title for himself.

( It is probable that, under the classical tutelage of Asser, Alfred utilised the design of Greek and Roman warships, with high sides, designed for fighting rather than for navigation.

This is the reason that Alfred divided his code into precisely 120 chapters: 120 was the age at which Moses died and, in the number-symbolism of early medieval biblical exegetes, 120 stood for law.

22: 39 – 40 ) to love your secular lord as you would love the Lord Christ himself underscores the importance that Alfred placed upon lordship, which he understood as a sacred bond instituted by God for the governance of man.

Secular and spiritual authority were not distinct categories for Alfred.

Following the example of Charlemagne, Alfred established a court school for the education of his own children, those of the nobility, and " a good many of lesser birth ".

Believing that without Christian wisdom there can be neither prosperity nor success in war, Alfred aimed " to set to learning ( as long as they are not useful for some other employment ) all the free-born young men now in England who have the means to apply themselves to it.

Alfred sought to remedy this through an ambitious court-centred programme of translating into English the books he deemed " most necessary for all men to know.

The Proverbs of Alfred, a thirteenth-century work, contains sayings that are not likely to have originated with Alfred but attest to his posthumous medieval reputation for wisdom.

Over the following years Alfred carried out a dramatic reorganisation of the government and defences of Wessex, building warships, organising the army into two shifts which served alternately and establishing a system of fortified burhs across the kingdom.

* Gateway ( film ), a 1938 dramatic film directed by Alfred L. Werker

Audiences did not respond as well to Lombard in dramatic roles ; she made a return to comedy, teaming with director Alfred Hitchcock in Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1941 ).

The dramatic conflict is heightened by film noir-inspired lighting and smoke, a dissonant string orchestra score that is reminiscent of movie scores for horror films ( including Bernard Hermann ’ s scores for Alfred Hitchcock films ), and the house itself, which acts as a character in the story, apparently reacting to the family ’ s crisis.

The dramatic scenes were directed by Alfred E. Green, with the musical sequences directed by Joseph H. Lewis.

:“ One of the particular strengths of this story was that it presented in dramatic form, a full year before the publication of van Vogt ’ s The World of Null-A, some of the key ideas associated with Alfred Korzybski .”

* In the dramatic climax scene of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) the hero and the villain struggle on a carousel.

The poem itself is a dramatic monologue by an elderly character that critics believe to be an older version of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Alfred Hitchcock used all of these techniques, but would sometimes allow the audience in on a pending threat then draw out the moment for dramatic effect.

He also produced the dramatic fragments Spartacus and Alfred der Grosse ( 1809 ).

* Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Ulysses, published in 1842, has been called the first true dramatic monologue.

In 1937, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor as a psychopath in the chiller Night Must Fall, then returned to playing light comedy roles, such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith ( 1941 ) with Carole Lombard, but continued his search for dramatic roles.

Alfred Wainwright in his influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells wrote that " From the south it appears as a great horseshoe of grassy slopes below a consistently high skyline ... but lacking those dramatic qualities that appeal most to the lover of hills.

There are further dramatic verse forms: these include dramatic monologues, such as those written by Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson.

Straight was active in the early days of television, appearing in anthology series such as Armstrong Circle Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One, The United States Steel Hour, Playhouse 90, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents and dramatic series like Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, The Defenders, Route 66, Mission: Impossible, and St.

Baby Face is a 1933 American dramatic film directed by Alfred E. Green, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent.

** For a dramatic production which tells the story of Alfred Nobel's discovery of dynamite and his subsequent creation of the Nobel Peace Prize.