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No full textProvenance: Inscribed on p.1, "J. G. Talbot Esq. from the author."Caption title."A paper by J.H. Parker, Esq., F.S.A., read by him at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Kent Archæological Society, July 16, 1863.""Reprinted from the Gentleman's Magazine", p.10.Mode of access: Internet.Talbot collection of British pamphlets
Philologus Hebraeo-mixtus : unà cum spicilegio philologico, continente decem quaestionum & positionum praecipuè philologico-Hebraicarum & Judaicarum centurias /
No full textIncludes index.Signatures: *-2*⁴ 3*² A-3Q⁴ 3R².Etched frontispiece by Johan van den Avele.Colophon: Ultrajecti, Typis Johannis à Stuyvesant, 1699.Booksellers' names joined with curved brackets on t.p.First published 1663.Mode of access: Internet.Binding: vellum. Title and author written on spine (by Leonard Baskin?). Edges red.Signature on t.p. of Thomas Bryan Richards, F.S.A., dated 29th October 1805. Ownership inscription of Lisa & Leonard Baskin on back pastedown, with price code; Baskin's initial B written in pencil after signature letter L; his printed labels for Fort Hill and Lurley Manor on front pastedown
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
Facing femininities : women in the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1899.
No full textSIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN029234 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo
4395, 1789-02-13, JACOB (Edward), F.S.A., Author of the History of Faversham † « A Gentleman »
No full textThe 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
The poetical works of John Milton with a life of the author by A. Chalmers, M.A., F.S.A.
No full textMode of access: Internet
Automatic Leg Cramps Relief Device
No full textA sudden contraction of calf muscles that can leave pain and soreness for an hour. The purpose of this paper is to apply the TRIZ approach in designing an automatic leg cramps relief device. The method is based on the study of TRIZ Engineering Contradiction and Contradiction Matrix. The study showed two possible elements that can be used for this project, heat and vibration. The effect of heat and vibration on the contracting muscle was analyzed by reading the surface Electromyography (EMG) signal on the calf muscle. Before the analysis, participants were requested to perform a few leg exercises to make the calf muscle tense. The result indicated that heat treatment can reduce EMG muscle reading while the vibration is vice versa. In conclusion, the heat can give some relaxation to the contracting muscle
