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The Ansayrii, and the assassins with travels in the futher east, in 1850-51, including a visit to Nineveh. By Lieut. the Hon. F. Walpole, R.N. Author of four Years in the Pacific" in three volumes. London Richard Bentley, New Burlington street, publisher
No full textPreface: by Walpole, F.Dedication: by Walpole, F. to Eliot WarburtonContent description: Detailed contentsIllustration: (Views ,varia ,)Pagination: PP15+402P, PP11+378P, PP8+458PVolumes: 3Text Genre:ProseIllustration: (τοπία ,άλλα θέματα ,
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
The lessons for the day. Being the third and fourth chapers [sic] of the Book of preferment. By the Author of the First and second [electronic resource].
No full textIn fact not by Horace Walpole, the author of 'The lessons for the day. Being the first and second chapters ..'.Hazen. Walpole,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from National Library of Ireland
Carbimazole embryopathy: an emerging phenotype
No full textConcerns about the safety of carbimazole in pregnancy were raised in 1985. Since this time many reports of children believed to have been affected by carbimazole in utero have appeared in the medical literature. Initial reports were of an increased incidence of scalp defects in the infants of treated mothers, but many other anomalies have now been described. Choanal atresia, gastrointestinal anomalies-particularly esophageal atresia, athelia/hypothelia, developmental delay, hearing loss, and dysmorphic facial features have all been reported. The phenotype associated with exposure to carbimazole appears to be rare but specific with distinctive facial features. We report on two new cases of carbimazole embryopathy with strikingly similar facial feature
The crown, the peerage and high politics 1689-1760.
No full textPhDIt is the contention of this thesis that the crown
went through some rather marked change during the course
of the period, starting with the Bill of Rights and
effectively ending with the Act of Settlement in 1701. In
1689 the crown had an extensive prerogative and a limited
executive, in 1702 it had a more limited prerogative
(although it did come into operation until after Annets
1714
death) and an extensive executive. Thereafter, there was
no deterioration in the crown's position during the
subsequent decades to the period's end. The importance of
the crown has been underestimated because of the limited
amount of direct research on it as a political entity.
This thesis makes advances in terms of both factual
knowledge and historiography. Its body falls into two
principal parts. The first of these are three structural
analyses of crown patronage in relation to the peeragetitles,
central office and local office. The second is a
broad political narrative. The analyses show that the
crown was a very definite presence in high politics. Over
the period as a whole the crown defined the limitations
that its political managers had to operate within
these. As the period progressed crown prejudices,
especially with relation to the peerage, grew more marked
rather than declining in the Revolution Settlement's wake
as has been the general interpretation previouslY. In the
narrative. the reigns of William III, Anne and George I
are principally innovative in terms of historiography. For
George II's reign there is such advance but also a far
higher share of new material, the latter part of the
period having had far less research on it than the former
one. A notable example of this is the patterns of
occurrence and general character of Post-1727 tory
tergiversation
The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
No full textBibliography: leaves 376-401.This thesis investigates the ways in which three eighteenth-century writers, Bishop Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen embody orthodox Anglican doctrine according to their individual perceptions of the enlightening properties of Protestant Christianity. After situating them in their respective gender, literary and ecclesiastical contexts, I examine some of their key doctrines and analyse excerpts from their works. My selection of passages from Sherlock's works is fairly comprehensive, but in the case of More and Austen, where there is already a formidable body of literary criticism, it is more selective. Thus, I focus on doctrine in More's tracts, Strictures on the System of Female Education, An Essay on St Paul and most especially Coelebs in Search of a Wife and in the case of Austen, on her prayers and select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular kind of Anglicanism (High, Evangelical and Median) and in their choice of genre, transparency or obscurity (anonymity and pseudonymity) and the various narratological strategies some of them invoke to circumvent certain taboos, Sherlock, More and Austen champion the same central orthodox doctrines, defend them against current alternatives to orthodoxy such as Latitudinarianism, Deism and various forms of Freethinking, and promote similar moral and ecclesiastical reforms. However, indirectly (through female characters who resist male representation or control) the women writers subject their ostensibly authorially-endorsed male narrators/characters to scrutiny and sometimes (when the males objectify the women) subversion
FIGURE 7 in A new genus for four myobatrachid frogs from the South Western Australian Ecoregion
No full textFIGURE 7. The species of Anstisia gen. nov. in life. A) A. rosea, from Pemberton, Western Australia; B) A. lutea, from Walpole, Western Australia; C) A. alba, from Witchcliffe, Western Australia; and D) A. vitellina, from Spearwood Creek, Western Australia. Photographs by G. Webster.Published as part of <i>Webster, Grant N. & Bool, Ian, 2022, A new genus for four myobatrachid frogs from the South Western Australian Ecoregion, pp. 127-151 in Zootaxa 5154 (2)</i> on page 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6641280">http://zenodo.org/record/6641280</a>
Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill e o Castelo de Otranto: insurgências de um esteta entre o excesso, a extravaganza e o maximalismo
No full textThis article aims to investigate the aesthetic insurgencies of one of the most iconic figures of the 18th century: Horace Walpole (1717-1797). Regularly referred to as the author of The Castle of Otranto (1764), a narrative considered to be the genesis of Gothic literature in England, Walpole’s numerous other facets (architect, designer, poet, critic, biographer, playwright, collector) reveal not only his plurality of talents, but also his visionary and subversive artistic approaches. With a modus vivendi anchored in extravaganza, excess and maximalism, Walpole is an artisan in his own right whose legacy, from Strawberry Hill to The Castle of Otranto, has haunted the arts from the 18th century to the present day.O presente artigo objetiva investigar as insurgências estéticas de uma das figuras mais icônicas do século XVIII: Horace Walpole (1717-1797). Regularmente referenciado como o autor de The Castle of Otranto (1764), narrativa considerada a gênese da literatura gótica na Inglaterra, Walpole apresenta inúmeras outras facetas (arquiteto, desenhista, poeta, crítico, biógrafo, dramaturgo, colecionador) que revelam não só sua pluralidade de talentos, mas, também, posturas artísticas visionárias e subversivas. Com um modus vivendi ancorado na extravaganza, no excesso e no maximalismo, Walpole é um artífice de si mesmo cujo legado, de Strawberry Hill a The Castle of Otranto, tem assombrado as artes desde o século XVIII até à contemporaneidade
Inscriptions copied in different parts of Asia Minor, Greece, and Egypt, illustrated by the author in: Walpole, Robert (ed), Travels in various countries of the East... London 1820.
No full textDedication:Pagination: 534-603Text Genre:Pros
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