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Speaking of his friend Carl Fisher, the Kubla Khan of Miami Beach, Rogers said, “Carl discovered that sand could hold up a real estate sign.”
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2020
With Marco Polo, you might say that Netflix is courting the global market just as Polo flattered Kubla Khan.
From Forbes • Dec. 9, 2014
And if a marathon of two Brit Rich Littles doesn't appeal, attend to the pair's inspired improvs of a medieval hero leading his troops to battle, or of their exegesis of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan."
From Time • Jun. 10, 2011
It pays homage to these powerful lines from Kubla Khan: "As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted/ By woman wailing for her demon lover!"
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2011
Coleridge, indeed, was a metaphysician of some pretensions, but the "honey dew" on which he fed when he wrote Christabel and Kubla Khan was not the Critique of Pure Reason.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel
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