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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 Duke of Newcastle's war : Walpole's ministry and the war against Spain, 1737-1742
No full textThis thesis examines the last years of the Walpole ministry. It attempts to shed light on the
inner workings of that ministry through an examination of its foreign policy, exploring the
origins and impact of the 1739 war with Spain. This dissertation is the only extended
modem study of the Anglo-Spanish diplomacy in these years. It is the only work to give
adequate consideration both to the varying influence of British domestic pressures and to
Spanish concerns. The thesis attempts to treat Spain's negotiations as variable, contingent
on chance and on personalities, as well as on certain intractable beliefs and principles.
Events are viewed largely from the perspective of the centre, the handful of leading
ministers and diplomats who discussed and made political and diplomatic decisions. The
personalities of ministers both in Spain and England, their interactions and rivalries and
their differing views, are important to understanding how diplomacy worked. Though
concentrating mainly on such interactions, and particularly the growing rivalry between
Newcastle and Walpole, the thesis tries to show how influential others were. The inner
circle of British ministers was preoccupied with the voice of those `without doors', and
public opinion set limits to diplomacy even in Spain. The domestic context of British
foreign policy included also a developing popular patriotism.
The thesis contends that the Walpole ministry nearly succeeded in procuring a genuine
commercial peace with Spain, and that the reasons for failure did not arise exclusively
from domestic political clamour. Royal prestige and individual ministerial personalitites, in
both countries, affected the outcome at least as much. The full explanation of a complex
breakdown can only be found in a close attention to the chronology of negotiation. The
thesis is therefore mainly chronological in form. In each chapter, though, an attempt is
made to take up relevant themes and develop them with a less strict regard to chronology.
Some issues, such as the role of monarchy, and of public opinion, the press campaign and
Opposition tactics, the contribution of the South Sea Company, recur
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
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
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
A. Graeme Auld, Erik Eynikel (éd.), For and Against David. Story and History in the Books of Samuel, (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 232), Leuven – Paris – Walpole (MA), Peeters, 2010
No full textHunziker-Rodewald Regine. A. Graeme Auld, Erik Eynikel (éd.), For and Against David. Story and History in the Books of Samuel, (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 232), Leuven – Paris – Walpole (MA), Peeters, 2010. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 92e année n°3, Juillet-Septembre 2012. p. 480
Rome's Relations with the Arab/Indigenous People in the First-Third Centuries
No full textIn the present paper I intend to discuss some aspects of the impact of the Roman presence on the area that, before 106/107, was part of the Nabataean kingdom. The territory was a complex world inhabitated by people who used different written languages. From a military point of view the Romans experienced native resistance only in the first decades immediately following the annexation of the Nabataean kingdom. Nonetheless, it is worth stressing that it remains difficult to be precise about the range and character of such opposition. During the last decades of the second century the Romans expanded their interests in the area, and were finally able to create a society where integration with the native people produced some positive results. On the other hand it appears that the pace of the integration process was quite a slow one. The causes for this delay must be properly interpreted
The Patriot Opposition to Walpole
No full textAbstract
This book is a full-length study of the so-called Patriot opposition to Robert Walpole, which reached its height during the clamour for war against Spain at the turn of the 1730s. The book examines the inter-relationship between patriotism, politics, and poetry in the period 1724-1742. It investigates the growing Patriot opposition during the Walpolian oligarchy, and asks whether a broad credo united all of Walpole's political opponents, or whether there was a distinction between Whig and Tory Patriots. The role of Frederick Prince of Wales as the campaign's cultural and political figurehead is discussed, as are the poetry and drama of such authors as James Thomson, Alexander Pope, and the young Samuel Johnson, who were all drawn to the heady idealism of the young Boy Patriots. Thomson's Rule Britannia and Johnson's London exploit the appeal to British history so central to the emotive propaganda of the Patriot campaign. Drawing on the literature, prints, architecture, and statuary of the 1730s, the book also discusses two of the decade's most powerful romantic patriotic myths — Gothic liberty, and Elizabethan greatness — and reveals that in its nationalistic emphasis upon Nordic and Celtic traditions, the figure of the ancient British Druid, and native ‘bards’, Patriot literature anticipates the ‘Gothic’ strain emerging in the poetry of Gray, Collins, and the Wartons only a few years later.</jats:p
Samuel Cronwright-Schreiner holding baby Maria Cronwright van Dijk in front of the sarcophagus on Buffelskop, 13 August 1921
No full textGlass negative : View of Samuel Cronwright-Schreiner holding baby Maria Cronwright van Dijk in front of the sarcophagus on Buffelskop, 13 August 1921. The coffins of Olive Schreiner, her baby and her dog Nita, are visible. The negative is marked "Copyright. 5"
"'Painting of a Sorrow': Visual Culture and the Performance of Stasis in David Garrick's Hamlet"
No full textThis article spotlights the acclaimed Shakespearean actor David Garrick's notorious habit of striking dramatic "attitudes" or sustained poses on stage. While some critics derided them as unnatural caesuras in Shakespeare's verse, these moments of silent stasis generated thunderous applause from audiences as well as numerous tributes from artists, who found these frozen moments an ideal subject for their brush. This essay reads Garrick's fondness for tableaux-vivants as a response to the explosion of visual culture in eighteenth-century England. Garrick developed this style at a time when Shakespearean-themed paintings came into vogue and prints of actors, including Garrick himself, had become popular collectibles. The article then explores the surprising parallels between Garrick's acting and Japanese Kabuki, in which performers also adopt dramatic postures (mie) at moments of tension or revelation. Visual artists in Japan, like their English counterparts, sought to capture these extravagant attitudes, and woodblock prints of actors (known as yakusha-e) were extremely popular. Insofar as these frozen moments and prints externalize the actor's or character's psyche as spectacle, images of Garrick's Hamlet clash with the notion of an interior realm beyond representation-a within that passeth show. Ironically, however, the performance of stasis in Garrick's Hamlet and the ubiquity of prints may have underwritten nineteenth-century theories of the Prince's "paralysis" and Romantic conceptions of subjectivity in which the inside overwhelms or arrests the outside
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