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ahistoryinart: In the early 1890s Roderic O’Conor painted many portraits of Breton women involved in domestic tasks. Here he has deliberately exaggerated colour inspired by the paintings of his friend Gauguin and used a striping method inspired by van Gogh.
Mark_Truesdale: Yet for all her critics, the cross-dressing Maid Marian clearly remained a carnival staple. Nicholas Breton wrote in a letter that, 'Maid Marrian of late was got with child in her sleepe, and the Hobby-horse was halfe mad, that the Fool should be the Father of it.'
themoneyghost: What I adore most about Nicholas Breton is his capaciousness, his vision of society that cuts across city and countryside, men and women, rich and poor, well and sick, happy and sad ❤️ from nursing mothers to itinerant beggars to lawyers to mice
cie1947: Conflict over new Indigenous lobster fishery continues to smoulder amid some progress
"Gear is still being cut by non-natives and DFO is still seizing traps," said Hubert Nicholas, fisheries director with the Membertou First Nation in Cape Breton
ColemanRidge: In brief, I thus conclude it: I hold it a memory of the Heaven’s love and the world’s peace, the mirth of the honest, and the meeting of the friendly. Farewell.”
-- Nicholas Breton in his Fantasticks, 1626
MelanieJaxn: “It is now Christmas, and not a cup of drink must pass without a carol; the corn is ground to dust for the bakehouse and the pastry: cards and dice purge many a purse.....now, good cheer, and welcome, and God be with you.”
-Nicholas Breton
unpaginated: Shadowe of intellegence,
to stay your further eloquence
Nicholas Breton
EmpyreanSeries: “Now beginnes the Goshauke to weede the wood of the Phesant and the Mallard loves not to heare the belles of the Faulcon: The winds now are cold, and the Ayre chill […]”
From “November”, ‘Fantasticks’ (1626), Nicholas Breton.
CBPost_Jeremy: Eskasoni Eagles acquire Sack, rights to Nicholas in NSJHL trades -
capebretonpost: ICYMI: Eskasoni Eagles acquire Sack, rights to Nicholas in NSJHL trades | SaltWire
sublunaryeds: “the Sunne begins to fall much from his height, the medowes are left bare, by the mouthes of hungry Cattell”
—Nicholas Breton, reminding you that time to take advantage of our flash sale is short
DonaldH11469395: And to thy self unhappy chief: Sing lullaby and lap it warm, Poor soul that thinks no creature harm. [ A Sweet Lullaby ]”
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
DonaldH11469395: She said never man was true, He said, none was false to you. He said, he had lov’d her long, She said, Love should have no wrong.
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
DonaldH11469395: Coridon would kiss her then, She said, Maids must kiss no men, Till they did for good and all. [ Phillida and Coridon ]”
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
DonaldH11469395: “ Come little babe, come silly soul, Thy father’s shame, thy mother’s grief, Born as I doubt to all our dole,
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
DonaldH11469395: “ In the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walked by the wood side, Whenas May was in his pride:
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
DonaldH11469395: There I spied all alone, Phillida and Coridon. Much ado there was, GOD wot, He would love, and she would not.
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
cbnewham: All Saints, Norton, Northamptonshire. Monument to Nicholas Breton and wife Elizabeth.
cbnewham: All Saints, Norton, Northamptonshire. Monument to Nicholas Breton.
DonaldH11469395: “ A Mad World, My Masters [ Title of Dialogue, 1635 ]”
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
DonaldH11469395: “ He is as deaf as a door. [ Miseries of Mavillia, v. ]”
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
DonaldH11469395: “ I wish my deadly foe, no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse. [ A Farewell to Town ]”
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
DonaldH11469395: “ Who can live in heart so glad As the merry country lad. [ The Happy Countryman ]”
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
DonaldH11469395: “ We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb. [ The Court and Country, par. 8 ]”
Nicholas Breton [ 1545?- 1626? ]
sublunaryeds: Paperback and ebook:
sublunaryeds: No better calendar than Nicholas Breton’s FANTASTICKS.
clarereynolds20: A swim a day.
Eric Ravilious for a Golden Cockerel Press edition of 'The Twelve Moneths' by Nicholas Breton.
MMcilfatrick: far & away my go-to quote and greatest writing kinship: "It was my hap of late, walking thorow the fields, to light upon a peece or paper, in which I found a kind of discourse, set down upon an imagination of midnight."
--- Nicholas Breton, "Fantasticks"
EmpyreanSeries: “To tell you mine opinion of money, I thinke it the Monarch of the world: the maintainer of Pride, the Nurse of Covetousnesse, the Steward of Lechery, the sower of Sedition, the cause of war, the sacke of a City, and the overthrow of a Campe”
Fantasticks (1626)
Nicholas Breton
EmpyreanSeries: “It is now Summer, and Zephirus with his sweet breath cooles the parching beames of Titan […] I hold it a most sweet season, the variety of pleasures, and the Paradise of love.”
“Summer.” From Nick Breton’s ‘Fantasticks’ (1626).
EmpyreanSeries: “It is now the tenth houre, and now preparation is to bee made for dinner… I hold it the Messenger to the stomacke, and the spirits recreation. Farewell.”
‘Fantasticks’ (1626)
Nicholas Breton
KnowCF: Guest Blog! It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint
EmpyreanSeries: « “It is now May, and the sweetness of the Air refresheth every spirit: the sunny beams bring forth fair Blossoms, and the dripping Clouds water Flora’s great garden: the male Deer puts out the Velvet head, and the pagged Doe is near her fawning »
Fantasticks
Nicholas Breton
kevblue777: And Phillida, with garlands gay,
Was made the lady of the May.
–Nicholas Breton (1545–1626)
ken_nicholas: I actually wouldn’t go. My sister and brother-in-law are in from Cape Breton and it would, literally, blow their minds to go! So, please choose me. Thank you!
platospupil: And Phillida, with garlands gay,
Was made the lady of the May.
–Nicholas Breton (1545–1626)
YumiCO2TX: “It is now May. It is the month wherein nature hath her fill of mirth and the senses are filled with delights. I conclude it is from the Heavens, a grace, and to Earth, a gladness.” – Nicholas Breton
May this new month bring you lots of smiles and joy.☀️
concierge_home: “It is now May. It is the month wherein nature hath her fill of mirth and the senses are filled with delights. I conclude it is from the Heavens, a grace, and to Earth, a gladness.” – Nicholas Breton
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EmpyreanSeries: Has Nicholas Breton ever really gotten his due? We think he's great.
themoneyghost: Favorite poet of all time: Minnis, Brooks, Lorde, Notley, Carson, Poe, E.A. Robinson
Poet I dislike: Whitman, Wordsworth :(
Poet that grew on me: James Schuyler
Most overrated poet: I couldn't possibly
Most underrated poet: Nicholas Breton, Herrick
The G.O.A.T.: Shakespeare
EmpyreanSeries: “The Spring”, from Nick Breton’s “Fantasticks” (1626)
Available in PDF, audio, & of course paperback formats
MichaelMcAteer1: Wonderful occasion of talks on Irish culture and performances of Irish music at Pázmány University, Budapest. Grégory Hiverlet and Nicholas Beaupertuis rounded up the evening with some Breton music.
EmpyreanSeries: Prices:
$3 USD
'Morning Star' by Ada Negri
'Ivan Moscow', Boris Pilnyak
'Maria Wutz', Jean Paul
$2 USD
'Fantasticks', Nicholas Breton
'The Last Days of Immanuel Kant', Thomas De Quincey
$1 USD
'Vagaries Malicieux', Djuna Barnes
'If You Had Three Husbands', Gertrude Stein
EmpyreanSeries: 'Fantasticks' eBook has been revised to work with dark-mode image inversion.
(One cool thing about the 'Fantasticks' eBook is that it includes the text in both old & modernized spellings.)
EmpyreanSeries: Spring is coming soon to the Northern Hemisphere. Nicholas Breton:
damnfoodcourt: "I bet you haven't even booked a Sean Nicholas Savage show ever!", I'd say.
Maybe I'd use the term Ditch. Once I lied to some friends and told them it was a cape breton term for fingering.
EmpyreanSeries: “It is now January, and Time beginnes to turne the wheel of his Revolution […] the Squirrell now surveyeth the Nut and the Maple, and the Hedgehogge rowles up himselfe like a football”
“January” from ‘Fantasticks’ (1626), Nicholas Breton.
Happy New Year—
The Empyrean Team
MelanieJaxn: “It is now Christmas, and not a cup of drink must pass without a carol; the corn is ground to dust for the bakehouse and the pastry: cards and dice purge many a purse.....now, good cheer, and welcome, and God be with you.”
-Nicholas Breton
JeffreyRothsch3: Though little known to most contemporary writers, these Renaissance poets, especially Raleigh & Nicholas Breton, are spectacular, well-worth exploring.
EmpyreanSeries: Print:
CBPost_Jeremy: Nicholas Girouard breaks down the wing and takes the puck to the net, sliding one past Lavallee. 1-0 Cape Breton.
Free_Range_: Margate's "broken folk" duo Lunatraktors have become a firm Free Range favourite. Here's their recreation of "a 16th century 'love poem' by Nicholas Breton; a classic piece of misogyny, blaming a man's infatuation on a woman's bewitching charms."
GCoatalen: Forbid the Poets, all fantasticke humors,
The Players, acting of vnlawfull iests,
The Prose-men, raising of vnciuill rumors
The Fidlers playing, but at Bride-ale feasts
The Fencers fight, but onely to defend,
That easie quarrells soone may haue an end,
Nicholas Breton
EmpyreanSeries: eBook
EmpyreanSeries: From eBook of Nicholas Breton’s « Fantasticks » (1626): the penultimate « Midnight » chapter.
To our sensibility, the chapter most full of gravity and pathos: « the body now lyes as a dead lump »; etc.
The Fantasticks eBook has the text in both old & modern spellings.
AdenArabie: “Then in faith may fancy see
How my love may constru'd be;
How it grows and what it seeks;
How it lives and what it likes;
So in highest grace regard it,
Or in lowest scorn discard it.”
- Nicholas Breton, Pastoral Poems, Foolish love is only folly.
EmpyreanSeries: Fayre weather is chearfull: foule weather is melancholicke. The day is lightsome, and the night is darksom.
Nicholas Breton, Fantasticks (1626)
Available now in print (50pp), audiobook, & ePub (both old & modern spellings).
WillyPalov: Nicholas Girouard finishes a feed from Ivan Ivan for Cape Breton. 1-1. Mooseheads goal now being credited to Jake Furlong, BTW.
EmpyreanSeries: At long last, 4 of our titles are available in eBooks:
Ivan Moscow, Boris Pilnyak
Maria Wutz, Jean Paul
Vagaries Malicieux, Djuna Barnes
Fantasticks, Nicholas Breton
Fantasticks eBook has the text in both old & modernized spelling & fully navigable TOC.
EmpyreanSeries: Nicholas Breton wishes you a good September.
Fantasticks by Nicholas Breton | Sublunary Editions
turdbolero: 3 of 5 stars to Fantasticks by Nicholas Breton
Page_Upon_Page: The works in verse and prose of Nicholas Breton (Published: 1966)
Full text:
HINIONGE: another magical evoking of August is from Nicholas Breton's wonderful 'Fantasticks' (two hundred and one years earlier)
avoiding_bears: might be displacing John Taylor from the first paragraphs of my book in favour of Nicholas Breton, it's the battle of the prolific prose writers
EmpyreanSeries: Our good friend and author Nicholas Breton likens books to cheese, cheese to books. (In the preface to 'The Wil of Wyt', if we're not mistaken; and we are mistaken from time to time.)
EmpyreanSeries: That Guevara & Berners could have met twice (in 1518 & 1522) is a wild theory. Here’s another impossible-to-refute conjecture: Nicholas Breton, whose birthdate is unknown, could have been born in April 1545 on the day that Guevara died.
ep_transfers: Confirmed: Nicholas Girouard (F) | Saint John Sea Dogs -> Cape Breton Eagles |
AidanNorthcott: The fun part of the opening of the Q's trade window is figuring out final prices for players.
Here, the trade officially becomes Saint John receiving Ryan Francis and a 6th round pick from Cape Breton for Dawson Stairs, Nicholas Girouard, a 1st round pick, and a 6th round pick.
trans_rumor: Nicholas Girouard (F) from Saint John Sea Dogs to Cape Breton Eagles
EmpyreanSeries: To our knowledge, there are no surviving portraits of our author Nicholas Breton. (Google returns some results, but we cannot reliably credit them, for lack of sources.)
In lieu of a portrait, then: a page in his hand, and a few title pages to boot.
EmpyreanSeries: Breton left a large body of work behind, mostly small octavo volumes. During the late 19th century the editor Alexander B. Grosart edited his collected works in 2 vols. Those volumes, and others, can be consulted here:
sublunaryeds: As promised, and without further ado: Empyrean No. 6 is FANTASTICKS by Nicholas Breton.
A shepherd’s calendar like no other, Fantasticks was first published in London in 1626, the year of Breton’s death. Fantasticks is the capstone to the work of a prolific early modern master.
EmpyreanSeries: Today we are excited to announce our next titles, soon available:
* Empyrean Nos. 6-10 *:
Fantasticks, Nicholas Breton (1626)
Ivan Moscow, Boris Pilnyak (1927)
Poems, Karl Kraus (1930)
Newton's Brain, Jakub Arbes (1892)
A Looking Glasse for the Court, Antonio de Guevara (1548)
EmpyreanSeries: We have another major announcement to make:
We will soon have ePubs of the following titles for sale:
'Maria Wutz', Jean Paul
'Fantasticks', Nicholas Breton (dual ed., old & regularized spelling)
'Ivan Moscow', Boris Pilnyak
'Vagaries Malicieux', Djuna Barnes
EmpyreanSeries: First up, a short masterwork of late EN Renaissance prose. At 10,000 words, Empyrean No. 6 is Nicholas Breton's distillation of a lifetime of experience into a nonpareil shepherd's calendar. This work will soon be available in three different formats: print, ePub, & audiobook.
DanThePongMan: I wish my deadly foe no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
excerpt from A Farewell to Town
Nicholas Breton, English poet
1545 ? - 1626 ?
Greenish_Idiot: His name is Nicholas, a Breton hailing from a hamlet in the province of High Rock. He's skilled with the magics of Destruction and Restoration but he can do some Conjuration and Enchanting. He's also proficient with a blade, making him quite the Spellsword.
byars_jana: A description of the month of June in early modern England.
Read by Peter Kenny.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
jsief: It is now May, and the sweetnesse of the Aire refresheth every spirit: the sunny beames bring forth faire Blossomes, and the dripping Clouds water Floraes great garden: the male Deere puts out the Veluet head, and the pagged Doe is neere her fawning
Nicholas Breton, Fantasticks
Pearle_Yukon: "It is now May . . . It is the month wherein Nature hath her fill of mirth, and the senses are filled with delights. I conclude, it is from the Heavens a grace, and to Earth a gladness." —Nicholas Breton
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Khan756757: "It is now May . . . It is the month wherein Nature hath her fill of mirth, and the senses are filled with delights. I conclude, it is from the Heavens a grace, and to Earth a gladness." —Nicholas Breton>>>blessed night friends
jsief: dreaming of Nicholas Breton’s apocryphal “The Payne of Pleasure”, entered into the Stationer’s Register in Sep 1578
capebretonpost: Antigonish recording artist Nicholas Layes to hit the airwaves on April 25 on 98.9 XFM | Saltwire
jsief: “He that builds Castles in the Aire, in hope of a new World may breake his necke ere he come to halfe his age.”
There’s some Private Wit from Nicholas Breton for you.
GeoffreyBrandow: Ryan Francis and Nicholas Girouard each join in with 3 assists. Francis finishes month 6 points away from total with Cape Breton (21) earlier this season while Girouard sets new career best in category and doubles assists output on the year from 3 to 6.
SlCathy: Proof that Eric Ravilious appreciated the picturesque qualities of a sodden rustic fence in January.
Golden Cockerel Press. - Ravilious (Eric) - Breton (Nicholas). "The Twelve Moneths", 1927.
The wood engraving from the foot of the page is shown below.
adambcqx: “Christmas Day” from Fantasticks by Nicholas Breton (1626)
ColemanRidge: In brief, I thus conclude it: I hold it a memory of the Heaven’s love and the world’s peace, the mirth of the honest, and the meeting of the friendly. Farewell.”
-- Nicholas Breton in his Fantasticks, 1626
ArthurLWood: 'The advice not to lose the Queen was also emphasised in Nicholas Breton’s later poem “The Chesse”, published in the The Pheonix Nest in 1593 [...]
“Loose not the Queene, for ten to one,
If she be lost, the game is gone.”'
ADASpota: Surrealist painter and engraver Kurt Seligmann, whose sinister biomorphic paintings prompted Andre Breton to invite him to join the Surrealist's in 1937. An expert on Magic and the Occult, he also wrote a history of it, The Mirror of Magic in 1948
Dream of Nicholas Flamel, 1939
capebretonpost: Nicholas Naugle wins Toromont Cat 150 race | Cape Breton Post
riyafloresss: If the shoe fits, wear it.
- Nicholas Breton
banueloskyl: "If the shoe fits, wear it." -Nicholas Breton
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MadeinC70794031: Sale:
malone_j71: s Nicholas Denys had established a colony at Chedabucto, near Cape Canso, situated on Cape Breton Island, called St. Pierre. This was more a trading post than an agricultural colony. A few smaller posts were connected with this principal establishment. About seventy to eighty
cbnewham: Nicholas (d.1658) and Elizabeth Breton, All Saints, Norton, Northamptonshire.
