Carriage

table, goes out with the carriage in the afternoon, attends to fires throughout the day and evening, prepares table for tea, cleans up after tea, waits at dinner, clears the dinner table, helps clean the plate, washes the glass and silver used at dinner, takes in coffee and dessert after dinner, waits in attendance in front hall when dinner guests are leaving, attends to the gentlemen in the smoking room, attends to lighting in the house at dusk, goes out with the carriage in the evening and…

and saw a beautifully appointed carriage and thought: Wow, they pimped their rides. I started thinking about carriages and other extravagances that constituted a very rich 18th century materialism and consumption. I wondered what carriages would reveal about the role of materialism in human life. I particularly wondered how the complex social and economic dimensions of carriage culture shaped how men and women imagined and fashioned gender. I learned that carriages literally reshaped social…

He brings the young instructor to his villa in Capri and insults him with his debucharies, he says You seem to be interested in empirical activities so I thought I'd bring you here to remove all doubt. Decius is abhorred and makes a speech to the effect Tiberius after listening makes his own and releases him back to Rome: While walking home from his last lecture two gentlemen approach Decius on the roadway. Instructor, pardon, but we may spare you an evening dinner and bath for you have…

LW100 Research Essay: In the article “The vagaries of construction of the carriage service offence in s 474.17 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code” which appears in the Criminal Law Journal, Clive Turner brings to light the lack of legislative definitions applicable to s 474.17 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act (CCCA). Turner dissects the structure of s 474.17 of the CCCA and then delves into addressing the definitions of the words “menacing, harassing and offensive”, with reference to…

the greatness of her single “wedding day” with Death. The last two lines of “Because I could not stop for Death” show that the woman may not have fully believed in “Eternity” at first. While riding with Death and Immortality in the horse-drawn carriage, she “surmise[s]” (1.23) they are heading for perpetuity. The word surmise does not simply mean “guesses” or “wonders,” but rather “suspects”—the woman had a certain amount of doubt in an afterlife, perhaps initially wondering if there even was…

relaxed state of the speaker. Utilizing tools such as iambic meter and alliteration, the poet creates the calming rhythm portrayed as the carriage movement. For example, the speaker’s iambic meter accentuates her calm mood. The beat underneath her words, “Because I could not stop for Death -/ He kindly stopped for me-“(1-2), allows the reader to feel how the carriage is moving. The soft rocking back and forth continues to highlight the calm that the reader is graced with. As the poem continues…

Care to share the warmth, hun?” he flashed her a closed-lip grin. The olive-skinned woman groaned, not responding to his request, “You don’t want me dying of frostbite, do you?” she rose to her feet, heading to the carriage. “Why do you insist on causing me trouble?” the rhetorical question flew from her mouth in annoyance, but her decision to assist the bound man caused a genuine smile to cover his face. Once the bounty hunter aided him, depositing him beside the…

thoughts as she watched him jostle the carriage with his passionate laughter. In that moment he had changed his mother’s thoughts and shaken her doubts. The author of this poem was able to offer a deeper understanding to his narrative with the usage of imagery…

Immortality is introduced upon its mention as being a part of the carriage, "The carriage held but just Ourselves-/ And immortality" (L. 3-4). The carriage in question is metaphorically used to represent the speaker 's passing. In other words, it is used as transportation to another dimension. Whether the speaker dies of illness or dies gracefully in her sleep, the carriage could also signify her progressive detachment from her body and can be seen as the journey taken…

the way in, and were joined by more. When he drew to a halt outside the Melody Guesthouse,a sizable crowded had gathered. Comprised mostly of mostly woman and children, they hushed when he stood; in awe of the Reverend and his gleaming red and gold carriage. "Mr Pickett." He jumped from the seat onto the dusty road, resisted kicking the mangy dog that yapped at his feet, and turned his attention to woman who'd spoken. Weighing two hundred pounds or more, with a cheerfully lined face and a…