and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.

Not content to create only the music and lyrics, Noel Coward also wrote the book and directed Sail Away ( Capitol WAO 1643 ; ;

Averroes, Avicenna and Alpharabius, who wrote on Aristotle in great depth, also influenced Thomas Aquinas and other Western Christian scholastic philosophers.

He also frequently wrote screenplays for other directors.

He also wrote:

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

In addition, he wrote that each person will experience a world of their own, though he also wrote that the dream world doesn't necessarily have to be solipsistic as different selves may be able to communicate with each other by dream telepathy.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

Ambrose also wrote a treatise by the name of " The Goodness of Death ".

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

He also wrote a Vita Abbonis, abbatis Floriacensis, the last of a series of lives of the abbots of Fleury, all of which, except the life of Abbo, have been lost.

He also wrote Sapphic stanzas on Homeric themes but in unHomeric style, comparing Helen of Troy unfavourably with Thetis, the mother of Akhilles.

It was said he had a son, called Stephanus, who also wrote comedies.

There is also some evidence that, during his old age, he wrote plays in the style of New Comedy.

Andronicus wrote a work upon Aristotle, the fifth book of which contained a complete list of the philosopher's writings, and he also wrote commentaries upon the Physics, Ethics, and Categories.

The decimal point notation was introduced by Sind ibn Ali, he also wrote the earliest treatise on Arabic numerals.

From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und angewandten Chemie ( Dictionary of Pure and Applied Chemistry ) edited by Justus von Liebig, Wöhler, and Johann Christian Poggendorff, and he also wrote an important textbook.

He also wrote controversial criticisms of the British class structure which seemed to conflict with his promotion of Anglo-American friendship.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

He also wrote ' Ends and Means ' about his views on the technique.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

The fragments of Ennius contain a few couplets, and scattered verses attributed to Roman public figures like Cicero and Julius Caesar also survive.

The novelist George Eliot also included couplets throughout her writings.

An example of this is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poem largely written in loose heroic couplets but also allowing for frequent enjambment.

The rest of the work also raises issues about authenticity, since some couplets look like lines attributed by ancient sources to other poets ( Solon, Euenus, Mimnermus and Tyrtaeus ).

According to Suda, both his " constitution " () and his " precepts " () were composed in elegiac couplets, but Pausanias also mentions " anapests ", a few lines of which, quoted by Dio Chrysostom and attributed to Tyrtaeus by a scholiast, could have belonged to the so-called " war songs " (), of which nothing else survives.

Together with these long hymns, odes and elegies – which included " Der Archipelagus " (" The Archipelago "), " Brod und Wein " (" Bread and Wine ") and " Patmos " – he also cultivated a crisper, more concise manner in epigrams and couplets, and in short poems like the famous " Hälfte des Lebens " (" The Middle of Life ").

In rondo form, a principal theme ( sometimes called the " refrain ") alternates with one or more contrasting themes, generally called " episodes ," but also occasionally referred to as " digressions " or " couplets.

The church is also immortalised in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons which ends aside from the chopping couplets in many versions with I do not know, says the great bell of Bow.

The poem uses an irregular rhyme scheme, often using couplets or ABAB rhymes, but also repeating some rhymes many times in succession, or allowing long gaps between a word and its partner.

" The longest sample is Shade's 999-line work, rendered in heroic couplets ( rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter ), which is also titled " Pale Fire " and provides one facet of the novel's reflexive structure.

These final couplets also contain the same vocal melody and chord progression as each other, although they are in different keys.

Montgomery also used heroic couplets for The World before the Flood ( 1812 ), a piece of historical reconstruction in ten cantos.

" A " Veteris et novi Testamenti collatio " in elegiac couplets has also come down, but we have no grounds for ascribing to him the Virgilian cento, " De verbi incarnatione.

They also got some couplets from the Quagmires.

Their work is usually distinguished from the work of earlier Scottish writers such as Barbour and Wyntoun who wrote romance and chronicle verse in octosyllabic couplets and it also perhaps marked something of a departure from the medieval alliterative or troubador traditions ; but one characteristic of poetry by the Makars is that features from all of these various traditions, such as strong alliteration and swift narration, continued to be a distinctive influence.

However, Samuel Butler also used closed couplets in his iambic tetrameter Hudibrastic verse.

Beginning famously with the line " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ", Endymion, like many epic poems in English ( including John Dryden's translations of Virgil and Alexander Pope's translations of Homer ), is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter ( also known as heroic couplets ).

This would suggest that the poem is not only an early use of heroic couplets but also one of the first mock-heroic works in English.