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wrote and caustic
" In her book My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy, Nancy Cartwright ( who performs the voice of Bart Simpson ) wrote that " Kelsey Grammer scores big-time by injecting caustic, bitter, contemptuous and deliciously vile energy into his rendition of Sideshow Bob.
They supposedly committed suicide out of shame when Hipponax wrote caustic satirical poetry about them for revenge.
He also wrote some savage and caustic epigrams.
Wynette wrote to Clinton saying, " With all that is in me, I resent your caustic remark.
" To this censure, obviously unfair to one newly-arrived in London and uninformed as to the professional ethics of exhibiting, Copley one morning wrote a caustic reply, and in the evening wisely threw it into the fire.
Carter wrote a caustic article for Look magazine which detailed the menacing spread of a chapter of the White Citizens ' Council.
He also wrote hundreds of reviews, including a notably caustic rejection of J. Churton Collins's 1906 edition of Robert Greene.
Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, was caustic about the casting and the adaption of Cain's novel, and wrote, "... Rhonda Fleming and a laughably kittenish Arlene Dahl, are a couple of on-the-make sisters, and the fellow, played by John Payne, is an on-the-make big-time gangster.
He seems to have been a man of caustic wit, who wrote for his own pleasure.
The change of career from critic to librettist came after he wrote a particularly caustic review of a George Edwardes production.

wrote and despatch
In a June 1918 leaflet entitled " Appeal for Enlistment ", Gandhi wrote " To bring about such a state of things we should have the ability to defend ourselves, that is, the ability to bear arms and to use them ... If we want to learn the use of arms with the greatest possible despatch, it is our duty to enlist ourselves in the army.
In his first despatch to the Secretary of State for War he wrote " So strong, in fact, were the defences of ' W ' Beach that the Ottomans may well have considered them impregnable, and it is my firm conviction that no finer feat of arms has ever been achieved by the British Soldier – or any other soldier – than the storming of these beaches from open boats on the morning of 25 April.
He went too far when he wrote to the Foreign Secretary to refuse a posting offered to him, " I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, informing me of my promotion as Second Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Buenos Ayres.
His death was an irreparable loss to the Tsar, who wrote the words upon the despatch announcing it in grief.

wrote and Lord
On the day of his wife's death he wrote two verses from the Psalms, and the prayer, ' O Lord, God of Mercy, unite me in Heaven with those whom you have permitted me to love on earth.
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.
After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.
" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.
Marlborough wrote to Lord Raby, the English resident at Berlin: " If it should please God to give us victory over the enemy, the Allies will be little obliged to the King for the success.
" Victoria's Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote a poem, " Boadicea ," and several ships were named after her.
Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, a 17th-century English jurist and Member of Parliament, wrote several legal texts that formed the basis for the modern common law, with lawyers in both England and America learning their law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century.
One explanation for the origin of obligatory celibacy is that it is based on Christ's example and on the writings of Paul, who wrote of the advantages celibacy allowed a man in serving the Lord, Celibacy was popularized by the early Christian theologian Origen and Augustine.
Patrick Stoddart of The Times wrote: " The millions who watch Coronation Street – and who will continue to do so despite Lord Rees-Mogg – know real life when they see it ... in the most confident and accomplished soap opera television has ever seen ".
The symbolism of Camelot so impressed Alfred, Lord Tennyson that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attempts to treat the Arthurian legend.
The posting did not appeal to his mother, who wrote to Lord Charles Beresford, then a senior naval officer, member of parliament and personal friend, to use his influence to obtain something better.
The writer calls himself simply “ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ .” Jesus had two apostles named James, but it is unlikely that either of these wrote the letter.
On January 1576 Oxford wrote to Lord Burghley from Siena about complaints that had reached him about his creditors ' demands, which included the Queen and his sister, and directing that more of his land be sold to pay them.
His mother, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Lord Burghley that ' my wise son has gone very far with my Lady Mary Vere, I fear too far to turn '.
Another of Oxford's men was slain that month, and in March Burghley wrote to Sir Christopher Hatton about the death of one of Knyvet's men, thanking Hatton for his efforts " to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord and Oxford and Mr Thomas Knyvet ".
Two months later Rowland Whyte wrote to Sir Robert Sidney that ' Some say my Lord of Oxford is dead '.
Being unwittingly on his deathbed, the philosopher wrote his last letter to his absent host and friend Lord Arundel:
While imprisoned at Launceston Fox wrote, " Christ our Lord and master saith ' Swear not at all, but let your communications be yea, yea, and nay, nay, for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
In 1834 James Frampton, a local landowner, wrote to the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, to complain about the union, invoking an obscure law from 1797 prohibiting people from swearing oaths to each other, which the members of the Friendly Society had done.
He later wrote that he would never think of marrying her, " unless the Lord had entirely bereft me of my wits ".
In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.
Leigh Hunt, another poet, witnessed the event and wrote, " He recited his ' Kubla Khan ' one morning to Lord Byron, in his Lordship's house in Piccadilly, when I happened to be in another room.
Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

wrote and Canning
When Victor Emmanuel died, Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, wrote to his ministerial colleague George Canning that there should be public mourning in Britain, as a significant number of Britons had regarded Victor Emmanuel as their rightful king.
A young Whig, William Lamb ( the future Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister ) wrote an ‘ Epistle to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin ’, which attacked Canning:
Canning wrote on 16 April: " Here I am immersed in papers, of which I do not yet comprehend three words in succession ; but I shall get at their meaning by degrees and at my leisure.
The day after Canning wrote Lady Malmesbury: " I resign because Pitt resigns.
Canning disliked being out of office, and wrote on to John Hookham Frere in summer 1801: " But the thought will obtrude itself now and then that I am not where I should be – non hoc pollicitus.
At the end of September 1801 Canning wrote to Frere, saying of Pitt: " I do love him, and reverence him as I should a Father – but a Father should not sacrifice me, with my good will.
At a dinner to celebrate Pitt's birthday in 1802, Canning wrote the song ‘ The Pilot that Weathered the Storm ’, performed by a tenor from Drury Lane, Charles Dignum:
Canning eventually decided not to resign and wrote that " I am resolved to “ sink or swim ” with Pitt, though he has tied himself to such sinking company.
On 31 July Canning wrote to his wife: " The anxious interval between this day and the hearing the result of his expedition will be long and painful indeed.
Canning wrote to his wife on 1 August: " Now for the execution and I confess to my own love, I wake an hour or two earlier than I ought to, thinking of this execution.
Canning wrote to Gower on 2 October 1807: " We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear ".
After the news of Russia's declaration of war against Britain reached London on 2 December, Canning wrote to Lord Boringdon two days later: " The Peace of Tilsit you see is come out.
While studying English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in the 1980s, he wrote and performed comedy in a revue group called " The Seven Raymonds " with Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy, Michael Cosgrave, Richard Canning and Tim Richardson, but did not perform in the well-known Oxford Revue, though he did write for and direct the 1989 Revue.
At this time Lady Canning wrote of him in her diary: " General Havelock is not in fashion, but all the same we believe that he will do well.
He also wrote on George Canning and Eastern European history.
After Lord Liverpool's resignation as Prime Minister and the succession of George Canning as premier and the subsequent resignation of many prominent anti-Catholics, Fitzwilliam wrote to Lord Grey on 17 April 1827 to rejoice at:
" IGN's Robert Canning also wrote that, although the episode is overall " solid ", it is " lacking that extra something " that the best Sideshow Bob episodes have.
" It's not that I necessarily disagreed with this sentiment ," Canning wrote, " but at the time, I didn't think I needed to be taught a lesson while I watched The Simpsons.
Canning wrote that the episode " was a lot of fun as it put Bob in an unexpected situation with the Simpsons, interacting more with Homer than with Bart.
Victor Canning, a thriller and travel book writer, noted that Capern's " is better poetry than one would expect from a postman, and if it has a little breathlessness then it shows how truly the postman who wrote it has worked his own personality into the lines.

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