We would all feel better if hospitals weren't so cheerless.
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Sansa and Tyrion reminisced about their cheerless but technically continuing marriage.
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There are the same lonely bed-sits, rundown boardinghouses, cheerless cafes.
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But a long, slow squeeze to balance the books is also a cheerless prospect.
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And instead of that wonderful face lighting up when he spoke, he wore a cheerless mask.
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And cowards will have the reputation of bravery and the brave will be cheerless like cowards.
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I had brought a rose, thinking that the grave might be a neglected and cheerless place.
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In fact, Bradley's whimsical, child-like work comes across as rather cheerless, like a box of sour balls.
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This remains the template for a somewhat mysteriously cheerless, loveless marriage that finds Katherine more of a prisoner than a wife.
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But one thing is certain, Ms. Borda said as she surveyed the current interior: It won't be this drab, cheerless brown.
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From the road, Paisley Park looks industrial, utilitarian, and cheerless, like a big-box store that has recently gone out of business.
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The room was cold and cheerless, though, and there were no sheets on the bare mattress, only a dirty yellow nylon sleeping bag.
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The implication is that joining the global professional class can be nearly as exhausting and cheerless as playing the role of patriotic comrade.
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RIVNE, Ukraine — The target lived on the sixth floor of a cheerless, salmon-colored building on Vidinska Street, across from a thicket of weeping willows.
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Lawrence's was among the last, with a green campus full of trees, but a gray, cheerless interior and food that, in his words, looked regurgitated.
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If the novel seems unrelentingly cheerless at times, its tone reflects Gavin's struggle to come to terms with his family's particular history of displacement and loss.
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All her life, she said, she had known only Mr. al-Bashir's Sudan: a cheerless place where corruption thwarted her effort to get a government job.
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He had stayed only to wind up his law firm and then do the same "sinister and cheerless" job at a friend's practice closed by political persecution.
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One of the pair lurches under God's outstretched arm, showing only a head banked on one shoulder, his cheerless face darkened by a black mop of hair.
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My rather cheerless 22nd-floor superior king room boasted beige wallpaper, an armchair in chocolate-brown damask, and a TV atop a functional-looking dresser of ash-gray veneer.
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Mr. Trump did most of the talking; Chief Justice Roberts adopted a fixed and cheerless expression that made clear that he was ready to return to his judicial duties.
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A 2015 ink drawing titled "Black Sun" has the cheerless orb spewing fecal liquid that piles like a mound of pudding below, resembling a pipe depositing sewage in our waterways.
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Despite the cheerless weather the line of tired faces grew longer, hours before the doors would open and surrender themselves to a flock of obsessive fans, bleary anthems and intoxicated wailing. Woo!
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But the more I thought about it, the more the parallelism of her emergence highlighted how far she has come, even as much of her arc has been mired in the mostly cheerless stasis in Meereen.
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More critters, lots of them: Lucy Cooke's "The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales From the Wild Side of Wildlife" is a surefire summer winner, no matter how cheerless its cover looks.
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When we meet in Starbucks in downtown Beijing on a cheerless, sub-zero winter day, the 24-year-old theater director is looking pale and has four heat pads stuck to her waist to ease the breath-taking cramps.
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The story picks up with Jane and Michael Banks — the adorable young moppets from the original who so desperately needed Mary Poppins to save their father from losing his soul to cheerless adulthood — as adults, played by Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw.
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On my return into rebel-held territory following a frontline assignment among pro-Kiev forces, I was held by a group of armed rebels at a DNR checkpoint — a grey, cheerless outpost adorned with a statue of Lenin coated in gold paint.
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Sex—the only free joy we're given in this cheerless life—turning bad is usually the first sign everything is going to shit, and considering it's the most visceral—physical, mental, and emotional—you won't be able to just ignore it and hope it goes away!
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After the unforgivably terrible Suicide Squad—a movie critics called a "bloated and cheerless monstrosity," a "cacophonic, senseless disaster," and "an all-out attack on the idea of entertainment"—it seemed like DC's follow-up, Birds of Prey, was virtually guaranteed to be just as god-awful as its predecessor.
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As his home is cold and cheerless, when he is not on duty he lives at a pothouse.
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Upon arrival, Work found the seminary "cheerless and uninviting" and spontaneously decided to hop a train for Washington, D.C. to attend Columbian Law School, now part of George Washington University.
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Morrison was alarmed at his expenditure. He tried living in one room, until he had severe warnings that fever would be the outcome. His utter loneliness oppressed him. The prospect seemed cheerless in the extreme.
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Mrs Blewett is a fictional character played by Kathy Staff in the British sitcom Open All Hours. A somewhat cheerless woman who raised seven children, her personality resembles Staff's character Nora Batty in Roy Clarke's sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.
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The hall has been described as "the most ambitious instance of Gothic Revival domestic architecture anywhere in the country", and as "a vast, cheerless, Gothic structure". Grosvenor in about 1878 Grosvenor paid for many buildings on his estates. He was a patron of the Chester architect John Douglas.
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Bhishma avoids fight with gatotkacha as evening had approached, and withdrew his troops. Pandavas shouts for their victory and worshipped both heroes, Bhima and his son. King Duryodhana, became cheerless at the death of his brothers, and began to pass the hours in meditation. :: 5th day war :: At night, Duryodhana talks with Bhishma.
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"This land abounds with oceanic birds of every description", wrote Morrell. He also records seeing 3,000 sea elephants. At 10 o'clock Wasp "bade farewell to the cheerless shores of New South Greenland", and sailed for Tierra del Fuego, then through the Magellan Strait into the Pacific Ocean, reaching Valparaiso, Chile, on 1823.
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Q.T. or Q is the director of ATAC and is the one who usually briefs the agents on their missions. According to book #3 Boardwalk Bust he never smiles, The Hardy Boys Encyclopedia but then according to some other books he has a famous cheerless smile. Q has only ever appeared in mission CDs, never in person.
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Aletrino never had children. Aletrino published between 1889 and 1906 a few novels and collections of stories, all extremely bleak and cheerless in atmosphere. During this time, he worked as a medical doctor for the city of Amsterdam, especially for its firemen. In his final years, an incurably ill man, he lived with his wife in Switzerland.
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Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5?! This extremely risky recapture has been described by IM Lawrence Trent as a move that is "certainly not to be recommended". Forced to defend the Black side of this opening, Stockfish steered the game to a cheerless and passive but tenable position, similar to what Fabiano Caruana had done in Game 9 of the World Chess Championship 2018.
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He and Louisa May collaborated on a memoir and went over her papers, letters, and journals. "My heart bleeds with the memories of those days", he wrote, "and even long years, of cheerless anxiety and hopeless dependence." Louisa noted her father had become "restless with his anchor gone". They gave up on the memoir project and Louisa burned many of her mother's papers.
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A film noir, cheerless and violent. The protagonist is an antihero, struggling through life to nurture his eight-year- old daughter, and working in nightclubs as a bouncer to provide his income. When he gets involved in a fight, he ends up about to face jail, and losing his daughter to the social services. He is then asked by the police to spy on a criminal organization.
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Cooper, pp. 129–131; and Chaney, pp. 215–217 > Hardly knowing what I was doing ... I sat down and started to work out an > agonized craving for the sun and a furious revolt against that terrible > cheerless, heartless food by writing down descriptions of Mediterranean and > Middle Eastern cooking. Even to write words like apricot, olives and butter, > rice and lemons, oil and almonds, produced assuagement.
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Onn had abandoned his vision of an all-communities party and directed his attention to the Malay community. Tunku realised that Parti Negara would attempt to weaken UMNO and subvert some of his UMNO supporters. But Tunku also knew that he must act now if the granting of Independence was not to be delayed indefinitely. London in mid April 1954 was cold, damp and cheerless.
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When Martin is called on the carpet by his wife, Betty (Cale), he walks out on his family; his frustration and resentment at being part of a two-headed showbiz monster only increases. Engineered by managers and agents, the last lap of the Martin-Lewis partnership is a cheerless financial arrangement, and though each triumphs after the official split in 1956, neither ever recaptures the elation of their early chemistry.
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In 1947, the Communist Party petitioned to turn the Hotel Darwin into a community hotel, which was signed by more than 300 people. Paspalis and Stanley Thomas Laurance were successful in their tender for the hotel. In 1948, Lawrance was charged for failing to display a price list. The publican stopped serving beer while the case was before the courts, a period in the hotel's history described as "beerless, cheerless days".
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Ricardo leased Brinsop to Thomas Hutchinson, brother-in-law of William Wordsworth. Wordsworth visited the house from December 1827 to January 1828, and wrote three of his sonnets in that time. His sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, wrote of Brinsop Court that it was > no cheerless spot, and flowers in the hedges and blossoms in the numerous > orchards will soon make it gay. Our fireside is enlivened by four fine, > well-managed children, and cheerful friends; Mrs.
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In their summary of the 1911 season, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack claimed that "the outlook for Somerset is cheerless."Roebuck (1991), p. 108. The county finished bottom of the championship with only one victory, against Hampshire at Bath.Roebuck (1991), p. 107. Despite this, Poyntz had one of his most successful seasons: he scored 597 runs at an average of 22.96, and his five half-centuries were the most in any year of his career.
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Opening in 1892, the Marquam Building was Portland's first modern office building. The Oregonian described the architecture as "very imposing." Another critic described it as "rather gloomy and cheerless, like so many of the office structures designed under the spell of the Richardsonian Romanesque...It has no doubt all sorts of faults." Rather than pay high prices to local brick suppliers, Marquam started his own brickyard, and he shipped cheaper bricks to Portland from San Francisco.
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Martelli reciprocated with small gifts such as a pot of butter that he asked Salvado to acquire for him. In one letter to Salvado he wrote, "I received some plants and herbs which I gave as a present to Mr Gailey." His stay in the hut was short and he had to move into a wooden shack by the river. During heavy flooding in July 1857 he found himself marooned in his "cheerless house" while floodwaters swirled around him.
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Oh… one of my heart-strings is > broken ! The only way I have of describing my attachment to that man, is by > telling you, that next to you and Dickinson, he was the person in whose > society I took the greatest delight. A visit to Ardtrea was often in > prospect to sustain me in many of my cheerless labours. My gems are falling > away; But I do hope and trust, it is because 'God is making up his jewels'.
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The finish of the 1884 Derby from the Illustrated London News. Harvester is on the near side At Epsom on 28 May, on a "cold and cheerless day", Harvester started at odds of 100/7 in a field of fifteen. He was regarded as his trainer’s third string behind Queen Adelaide, who started 5/2 favourite and St Medard (6/1). Harvester was held up in the early stages before moving into contention as Borneo led the field into the straight.
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Supposedly it is based on actual auditions for a Dutch sex comedy. It was advertised as a sex comedy but, according to Eye Film, it is really an uninteresting type of documentary film investigating how and whether people are prepared to act out sex scenes in front of the camera. Much of the film is conversational, about prejudices, politics, personal problems. Fred van Doorn, writing for Het Parool, called it "the most cheerless a-sexual nudity in the history of film".
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With the help of Emmett, the lecture tour company's advance man, Belvedere makes preparations for a church bazaar to raise funds for the poverty-stricken place. Watson soon discovers his newest charge's true identity, but he keeps the information to himself after seeing how much good Belvedere has accomplished. However, reporters finally uncover his deception, and the disillusioned senior citizens revert to their cheerless routine. Belvedere manages to convince them that they are only as old as they think they are.
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His churches at All Saints, Reading and St Mary, Tyndalls Park, Bristol, are notably similar. His restorations often amounted to wholesale or partial rebuilding, and were seen by later generations as unnecessarily brutal; Sir John Betjeman was among St Aubyn's 20th-century detractors. St Aubyn also designed a number of country houses, mostly in a rather cheerless early Gothic style. The one whimsical building he is known to have designed is the clock tower in the grounds of Abberley Hall, c 1883.
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Daniel and Kurt have no real depth to them. The series is completely and utterly cheerless. It takes itself far too seriously to the point of becoming a silly melodrama." Chad Nevett of Comic Book Resources called the artwork "disappointing, if only because Ryan Ottley is a better artist than Haunt #1’s work displays." Nevett also criticized the book for reading "almost like a parody of itself with dark characters, [...] excessive violence, [...] and a character design obviously influenced by McFarlane’s work on Spider-Man.
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New Zealand toured England in the "wet and cheerless summer" of 1931 and lost the Second Test to England by an innings, the other two being drawn because of bad weather. Sutcliffe played in the Second and Third Tests at The Oval and Old Trafford respectively and had just two innings, scoring 117 and 109 not out.Hill, p.216. Jack Hobbs had retired from Test cricket and Sutcliffe had two opening partners, Fred Bakewell and Eddie Paynter, the latter not normally an opening batsman.
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Jimmy Corrigan is a meek, lonely thirty-six-year-old man who meets his father for the first time in the fictional town of Waukosha, Michigan, over Thanksgiving weekend. Jimmy is an awkward and cheerless character with an overbearing mother and a very limited social life. After an ill-timed phone call, Jimmy agrees to meet his father without telling his mother. The experience is stressful for him as he can barely communicate with anyone other than his mother, let alone his estranged father.
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On March 19 Morrell "bade farewell to the cheerless shores of New South Greenland", and sailed away from the Antarctic never to return. The remaining stages of the voyage are uncontroversial, involving a year-long cruise in the Pacific Ocean. This took Wasp to the Galápagos Islands and also to the island of Más a Tierra where, a century earlier, the Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk had been marooned, providing the inspiration for the Robinson Crusoe story. Wasp returned to New York in May 1824.
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She then took Thoas, through the streets of the city, crying aloud that the god's statue had been polluted by the night's bloody murders, and needed to be cleansed in the sea. By this subterfuge, and with the god Dionysus' help, Thoas was safely hid outside the city.Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.265-280. But fearing discovery, Hypsipyle finds an old abandoned boat, in which Thoas put to sea, eventually reaching the land of the Taurians, where "Diana put a sword in his hand, and didst appoint him warden of thy cheerless altar".
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St. Gatien, who had not been entered for the 2000 Guineas, made his three-year-old debut in The Derby. The customary huge crowd was in attendance, despite the "cold and cheerless" weather. St. Gatien was not a popular choice with the public but was reportedly backed by the "sharps" (those with inside knowledge) and started at odds of 100/8 in a field of fifteen runners, the filly Queen Adelaide going off the 5/2 favourite. St. Gatien was one of the early leaders before being settled by his jockey, Charles Wood.
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Mollie Goodhue leads a cheerless, impoverished life, largely because of her stern, miserly father. Mrs. Goodhue is mortally ill, but before dying, she gives the minister, Preacher Bolton, some money with which to buy her daughter the "finery" her father always forbade her. Mollie is delighted when the minister presents her with a fashionable New York hat she has been longing for, but village gossips misinterpret the minister's intentions and spread malicious rumors. Mollie becomes a social pariah, and her father tears up the beloved hat in a rage.
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Also taken on board, Duncan reported, "were the whole of the (Falklands') population consisting of about forty persons, with the exception of some 'gauchos', or cowboys who were encamped in the interior." The group, principally German citizens from Buenos Aires, "appeared greatly rejoiced at the opportunity thus presented of removing with their families from a desolate region where the climate is always cold and cheerless and the soil extremely unproductive". However, about 24 people did remain on the island, mainly gauchos and several Charrúa Indians, who continued to trade on Vernet's account. Measures were taken against the settlement.
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At first he tries to protect her from his vampiric tendencies, warning her his studio is a cheerless place and at one point breaking a date with her to spend time gaining control of himself after murdering Daisy. But one day at the beach, she reveals her attraction to him and asks him to make love to her. He tries, but panics and runs away. As Dorian leaves the beach, she then is approached by the vampiric Sordi, who chases her back to town, where she is rescued by Max and two of his beatnik friends.
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She then took Thoas, through the streets of the city, crying aloud that the god's statue had been polluted by the night's bloody murders, and needed to be cleansed in the sea. By this subterfuge, and with the god Dionysus' help, Thoas was safely hid outside the city.Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.265-280. But fearing discovery, Hypsipyle finds an old abandoned boat, in which Thoas put to sea, eventually reaching the land of the Taurians, where "Diana put a sword in his hand, and didst appoint him warden of thy cheerless altar".Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.280-303.
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Film reviewer Bosley Crowther in his review for The New York Times, noted the characters handicapped the film as much as the tepid plot line created by Arch Oboler, "the five people whom he has selected to forward the race of man are so cheerless, banal and generally static that they stir little interest in their fate. Furthermore, Mr. Oboler has imagined so little of significance for them to do in their fearfully unique situation that there is nothing to be learned from watching them. Mr. Oboler might as well be presenting five castaways on a desert isle".Crowther, Bosley.
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There could be no drills, no dress parades. The troops who were well enough to sit up at all sat in their cheerless quarters, ruminating on their own unhappiness, barely noting the drum-beat for the dead, beating evermore. General Fisk, commanding brigade, was so good a man and officer, so thoroughly appreciative of the situation, that he accomplished what mortal could accomplish toward driving off the clouds of despondency settling on the army. The expedition under General Washburne, which left Helena on February 15, to open the Yazoo Pass to navigation aroused the army from its lethargy.
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The war conditions at the hotel were markedly different from the experience of those living in Great Britain as there was no blackout and steaks were on the menu. The hotel declined after World War II; it had been met with competition from The Rock Hotel which had taken its status as Gibraltar's flagship hotel in 1932. In 1954, one visitor described their room as "roved to be a cheerless, bare place with an lithograph of Queen Victoria hanging on the wall and two camp beds". During the early 1960s, work was done on the hotel to add hot water.
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The now deposed Empress Chen spent the rest of her life in the cheerless, lonely Long Gate Palace. Still refusing to give up, she hired the famous poet Sima Xiangru to compose a song later known as The Ode of Long Gate (長門賦), hoping it would draw Emperor Wu's sympathy. Although some scholars claimed that Emperor Wu was so touched by the song that he revisited and loved her again, these claims are likely to be just inaccurate fantasies. Historical records indicate that though Emperor Wu rewarded Sima Xiangru for his work, Empress Chen never had any success recapturing Emperor Wu's heart.
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In 1930, an elderly Hindu woman alleged that Bengali Muslims had stolen her bullock, for sacrifice during the Islamic festival of Bakri-Id, when she saw her bullock in the Digboi market place. Hindus with sticks and Muslims with stones collected, triggering waves of riots in this part of Assam, accompanied by looting and killings. According to David H. Bayley, a professor of Criminal Justice, the crime of "cattle theft is a matter of deadly seriousness in India," because it is an agrarian society where "many people live on the cheerless threshold of starvation". Cattle, states Bayley, are as important as children and grown adults "weep bitterly over the loss of their stock".
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The third special was The Bill Uncovered : Jim's Story (2005), the story of DC Jim Carver – from his first day at Sun Hill (in the pilot "Woodentop"). The last was The Bill Uncovered: On The Front Line (2006), in which Superintendent Adam Okaro recounts the extraordinary events that have surrounded Sun Hill over his time in charge. A review of the second of these specials criticised the "increasingly degenerative plotlines" of the series, and characterised the special as a "cheerless outing" covering The Bill's "travesties of plot". All four editions of The Bill Uncovered were released on DVD in Australia as part of The Bill Series 26 DVD boxset, 30 April 2014.
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The 1937 New Zealand tour was rated a disappointment by Wisden, which said the team had not fulfilled expectations. In mitigation, it added that a long, latterly dry but relatively cheerless summer had made the tour particularly arduous, and there had been little time for preparation. In the event, for all except five of the team, the 1937 marked the end of their Test cricket, and for New Zealand there were no more Tests until the end of the Second World War. Then in consecutive domestic New Zealand seasons, there were single matches against first Australia in 1945-46 and then England in 1946-47, and in both matches Hadlee, Wallace, Tindill and Cowie played.
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253 Samuel Birch compares the felicity of the blameless youth to the jealous perturbation of one who has experienced passion.Hughes, p.195-6 And, as Eloisa had experienced "twilight groves and dusky caves", so Barford's Abelard reports James Cawthorne too speaks of "dark, cheerless solitary caves, deep breathing woods and daily-op’ning graves" (which also figure in Pope) subject to "imbrowning glooms" (p. 143). Then, as a final example, Pope's passage beginning "Thy voice I seem in ev’ry hymn to hear" (line 269), in which the progress of the religious service is invaded by thoughts of the loved object, has its parallel in Edward Jerningham's similar description of sacred rites, from which "My guilty thoughts to other altars rov’d" (page 4).
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When the film was first released, film critic for The New York Times, Bosley Crowther, panned the film, writing, "... we fear that neither the enlightenment nor the excitement that a customer might expect in such a flickering melodrama is provided by this film ... the script by Mel Dinelli, based on a novel by A. P. Herbert, is shy on genuine melodrama, it provides little in the way of suspense (since you know that the killer is bound to get his) and it comes to a weak and cheerless end. It seems that the killer is a novelist and unconsciously writes an exposure in his new book. This is about as measly a way to catch a man as we know."Crowther, Bosley.
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In his column in the 11 May 1918, issue of Illustrated London News G. K. Chesterton would note: :And, what is worse, the spirit of this cheerless impudence has sometimes spread and chilled the blood of better men. I have noticed it lately in the last stiff pose of people who still try the stale game of blaming everybody for the war, long after the Lichnowsky revelations and the peace imposed on Russia have quite finally fixed the blame. The latter refers to the harsh terms the Germans imposed on Russia in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in early March 1918. Chesterton was reminding his readers that, were Germany to win the war in the west, it would impose equally harsh terms on Belgium and France, in line with the 1914 Septemberprogramm.
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Elliot Huntley views "World of Stone" as overlong, with the shouted backing vocals "annoying" and Harrison's guitar sound "thin and weedy", and he bemoans that "the melody doesn't really deviate from its beginnings". Like Leng, Ian Inglis gives over much of his discussion of the song to possible interpretations of its lyrics, but he otherwise writes: "Harrison returns to his view of the world as a place of obstacles and trials in which there is little hope ... The variations in his vocal range fail to add variety or interest to what is, by now, a predictable and cheerless message, set to a leaden and monotonous score."Inglis, pp. 52–53. Reviewing the 2014 reissue of Harrison's Apple catalogue, Paul Trynka of Classic Rock considers that Extra Textures "confessional songs" such as "World of Stone" have "worn well".
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The Bank of the United States building was described by Charles Dickens in a chapter of his 1842 travelogue American Notes for General Circulation, Philadelphia, and its solitary prison: > We reached the city, late that night. Looking out of my chamber-window, > before going to bed, I saw, on the opposite side of the way, a handsome > building of white marble, which had a mournful ghost-like aspect, dreary to > behold. I attributed this to the sombre influence of the night, and on > rising in the morning looked out again, expecting to see its steps and > portico thronged with groups of people passing in and out. The door was > still tight shut, however; the same cold cheerless air prevailed: and the > building looked as if the marble statue of Don Guzman could alone have any > business to transact within its gloomy walls.
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The broad humor that runs throughout this heavily illustrated story from Patterson and Grabenstein masks personal pain, demonstrating resiliency in the face of tragedy. Wheelchair-bound middle-schooler Jamie has recently moved in with his aunt’s cheerless family, including—a bit too conveniently—school bully Stevie, Jamie’s new “adoptive brother.” Despite Jamie’s desire to be treated like an ordinary kid (one of the more important themes the authors emphasize) and a dark, lingering unknown (only late in the novel does Jamie reveal the reason for his paralysis and his parents’ absence), humor abounds. Much of it derives from Jamie’s comedic aspirations (he calls himself a “sit-down comic”), which are fueled by his friends’ reactions to his one-liners and the encouragement of his warmhearted uncle. Park’s wisecracking cartoons (not all seen by PW) play an integral role in the storytelling, laying bare Jamie’s fears, triumphs, and sense of humor.
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The historian Noel Malcolm has described Daniels's written accounts of his experiences working at a prison and a public hospital in Birmingham as "journalistic gold", and Moore observed that "it was only when he returned to Britain that he found what he considered to be true barbarism – the cheerless, self-pitying hedonism and brutality of the dependency culture. Now he is its unmatched chronicler." Daniel Hannan wrote in 2011 that Dalrymple "writes about Koestler's essays and Ethiopian religious art and Nietzschean eternal recurrence – subjects which, in Britain, are generally reserved for the reliably Left-of-Centre figures who appear on Start the Week and Newsnight Review. It is Theodore's misfortune to occupy a place beyond the mental co-ordinates of most commissioning editors." Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, a collection of essays was published in book form in 2001.
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And he arranged Psalms and hymns for them to sing, as St. Augustine says, "after the manner of the Orientals, lest the people should languish in cheerless monotony"; and of this Paulinus the deacon says: "Now for the first time antiphons, hymns, and vigils began to be part of the observance of the Church in Milan, which devout observance lasts to our day not only in that church but in nearly every province of the West". From the time of St. Ambrose, whose hymns are well-known and whose liturgical allusions may certainly be explained as referring to a rite which possessed the characteristics of that which is called by his name, until the period of Charlemagne (circ AD 800), there is a gap in the history of the Milanese Rite. However, St. Simplician, the successor of St. Ambrose, added much to the rite and St. Lazarus (438-451) introduced the three days of the litanies (Cantù, Milano e il suo territorio, I, 116). The Church of Milan underwent various vicissitudes and for a period of some eighty years (570-649), during the Lombard conquests, the see was moved to Genoa in Liguria.
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Its first librarian was Solomon Porter, a Yale graduate and principal of the Grammar School. In 1838, Hartford resident and the first United States Commissioner of Education Henry Barnard organized lectures and debates for young men and called this association the Hartford Young Men's Institute. They invited Hartford Library Company subscribers to join with them, offering them lifetime memberships. Library company members agreed and brought to the institute their collection numbering over 3,000 volumes. In 1842, Daniel Wadsworth offered the Young Men's Institute a stake in what he hoped would become the cultural center of Hartford. Members accepted and, in 1844, the Young Men's Institute moved into the new Wadsworth Atheneum, eventually sharing space with the fine arts gallery, the Watkinson Library, The Connecticut Historical Society and the Hartford Art School. One of the Institute's most prominent librarians from 1846-1868, essayist Henry M. Bailey wrote in 1850 Thoughts in a Library about the mood there: "It is a stormy evening: the rain patters on the roof and beats against the windows. All without is cold and cheerless, all within is pleasant and cheerful..." In 1875, the Young Men's Institute hired Caroline Hewins as its head librarian. She was 29 years old.
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He lived and worked in the Athenian Chambers in Shortmarket Street, in a room D. C. Boonzaier described as cheerless surroundings. Circumstances improved slightly when Kottler was commissioned to illustrate a Nationale Pers children's book Wonderstories, for which he received £20. This was followed on 16 July 1917 by a commission to paint the portrait of Cecil James Sibbett, naturalist, President of the South African Botanical Society, and later chairman of the board of Trustees of the South African National Gallery. This portrait was destroyed when Sibbett's house, Mount Rhodes in Hout Bay, burnt down in 1936. During 1917, Kottler was occupied with painting: portraits of Louis Herrman, A. Z. Berman and others, still lives and townscapes of Cape Town and the Malay Quarter, one of which was reproduced in Die Huisgenoot, an Afrikaans weekly magazine, in April 1918. Art critic Bernard Lewis procured a commission for Kottler to paint the portrait of Jakob Elisa de Villiers (Oom Japie Helpmekaar), a wealthy farmer of Paarl, which was completed by 25 December 1917. On 11 February 1918, he finished the portrait of Ethel Friedlander, which he later destroyed, but can still be seen in the background of a self-portrait done around the same time.
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