437 research outputs found
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 ,
An answer of the Right Honourable William Pultney to the Right Honourable Robert Walpole
No full textAn answer of the Right Honourable William Pultney to the Right Honourable Robert Walpole
No full textThe 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
Jonathan Clark, Walpole, New Hampshire, letter to John Mathews, Springfield [Putnam], Ohio
No full textIncludes copy of a letter from William Clark, dated June 19, 1805 in which he transfers his "Power of attorney" to Jonathan Clark
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
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
MPVM: A migration transparent version of PVM
No full textContact: Jeremy Casas (503-690-1125) or Jonathan Walpole (503-690-1161) Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) is a widely-used software system that allows a heterogeneous set of parallel and serial UNIX-based computers to be programmed as a single message-passing parallel machine. In this paper, an extension to PVM to support dynamic process migration is presented. Support for migration is important in general-purpose workstation environments since it allows parallel computations to co-exist with other applications, using idle-cycles as they become available and o-loading from workstations when they are no longer free. A description and evaluation of the design and implementation of the prototype Migratable PVM system is presented together with some performance results
John Gay's the beggar's opera: early eighteenth-century responses in the arts to cultural, sociological and political issues in London life
No full textDiffering responses in art media to these contemporary issues of London life are explored, taking John Gay's the Beggar's Opera as the focal point for discussion. Initially, a general survey is made of Gay's role as cultural, social and moral critic. Comparison with George Frederick Handel's Floridante allows Gay's work to be placed in the context of operatic responses to contemporary society, highlighting usage both of overt portrayal and indirect satire. Gay's approach to political issues is examined alongside that of Dean Swift's Gulliver's Travels enabling an estimation to be made of the effectiveness of these art media as tools of political propaganda. Similarly, responses in the field of painting are discussed in the light of representative works of James Thornhill and William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress and A Rake's Progress. In considering all these responses it is noted that art can be interpreted at differing levels, from the sophisticated to the naive. All these art media are then placed in the context of artistic philosophy of the period, thus facilitating an objective assessment of the parallels and differences of art's responses to contemporary issues. Taking into account inherent limitations in the media, to conclude our study, Hogarth's The Beggar's Opera Scenes are compared and contrasted with Gay's prototype. The thesis highlights the trend towards realism in the arts during this period. Nevertheless, we are left with the conundrum that art, 'per se', can only 'mirror' life. It does not necessarily solve its problems. Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Music. University of Durham Department of Music 198
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