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The Auto-Biography of John Britton, Volume 2

Author : John Britton,T E Jones
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1357165374

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The Autobiography of John Britton Volume 2

Author : John Britton
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230141324

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Scotch Novelist! that I might now detail all that was said by him on that memorable morning; as well as the artistic remarks of the mild and amiable President of the Royal Academy; and the then novel theories and language of the German Phrenologist: but, alas! I can only venture to relate the simple circumstance of the meeting, the scene, and the tendency of the conversation. The peculiar formation of the Poet's skull, with all its superficial inequalities and curvatures, was pointed out by Dr. Spurzheim, and descanted on with much ingenuity; with inferences from its peculiar developments, as indicating the possession of those talents which are evinced in his Writings; also some personal traits of character, which the ingenious and accomplished man of physiological science only could descry, or venture to comment on. Mr. West said but little; for he was never eloquent, nor even fluent. His remarks on the Bust were confined to individual features--the eyes, nose, mouth, forehead, cheeks, hair, and moustache: all of which, he felt satisfied, were imitations of nature, modelled from the person whilst living, or from a cast after death. There was no appearance of fancy, or of its having been modelled merely from recollection.f The language of Mr. Scott, on the poetry of Shakspere, was fluent and copious; but he scarcely noticed the plaster-cast. He could repeat almost every striking passage in the plays and poems of the Bard, and applied many of them to characterize their author. On being asked to look at and give his opinion of the Bust, he chiefly alluded to the lofty, towering forehead, and conical crown; the simple, boyish lips, and their pleasing expression; but he could not reconcile himself to the extraordinary, and, as he...

The Auto-biography of John Britton ...

Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : YALE:39002088869319

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The Auto-biography of John Britton ... by John Britton Pdf

The Autobiography of John Britton, F.S.A. ... In Three Parts: Viz. Part I. Personal and Literary Memoir of the Author. Part II. Descriptive Account of His Literary Works. [By T. E. Jones.] Part III. Appendix.-Biographical, Topographical, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Etc. [With Plates, Including Portraits.]

Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026878419

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The Autobiography of John Britton, F.S.A. ... In Three Parts: Viz. Part I. Personal and Literary Memoir of the Author. Part II. Descriptive Account of His Literary Works. [By T. E. Jones.] Part III. Appendix.-Biographical, Topographical, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Etc. [With Plates, Including Portraits.] by John Britton Pdf

UPROAR!

Author : Alice Loxton
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785789564

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**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians** 'Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ... the next big thing in history' Dan Snow London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly, turning satire into an artform, taking on the British establishment, and forever changing the way we view power. Set against a backdrop of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth of modern celebrity, French revolution, American independence and the Napoleonic Wars, UPROAR! follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power, from the Prince Regent to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Their prints and illustrations deconstruct the political and social landscape with surreal and razor-sharp wit, as the three men vie with each other to create the most iconic images of the day. UPROAR! fizzes with energy on every page. Alice Loxton writes with verve and energy, never failing to convince in her thesis that Gillray and his gang profoundly altered British humour, setting the stage for everything from Gilbert and Sullivan to Private Eye and Spitting Image today. This is a book that will cause readers to reappraise everything they think they know about genteel Georgian London, and see it for what it was - a time of UPROAR!

Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Frank O'Gorman,Diana Donald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230518889

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Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century by Frank O'Gorman,Diana Donald Pdf

The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of Eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or was it a mass of chaotic, randomly moving atoms, as some materialist thinkers believed? This book explores the tensions and conflicts in these debates through a series of interdisciplinary essays from leading international scholars, each challenging the idea that the Eighteenth century was an age of order.

The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain

Author : Sarah Zimmerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192569554

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The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain by Sarah Zimmerman Pdf

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period's most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thelwall, Thomas Campbell, and William Hazlitt. Lecturers aimed to shape auditors' reading habits, burnish their own professional profiles, and establish a literary canon. Auditors wielded their own considerable influence, since their sustained approbation was necessary to a lecturer's success, and independent series could collapse midway if attendance waned. Two chapters are therefore devoted to the auditors, whose creative responses to what they heard often constituted cultural works in their own right. Auditors wrote poems and letters about lecture performances, acted as patrons to lecturers, and hosted dinners and conversation parties that followed these events. Prominent auditors included John Keats, Mary Russell Mitford, Henry Crabb Robinson, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, and Lady Charlotte Bury. The Romantic public literary lecture is a fascinating cultural phenomenon in its own right, but understanding the medium has significant implications for some of the period's most important literary criticism, such as Coleridge's readings of Shakespeare and Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets (1818). The book's two main aims are to chart the emergence of the literary lecture as a popular medium and to develop a critical approach to these events by drawing on an interdisciplinary discussion about how to treat historical speaking performances.

Robert Willis (1800-1875) and the Foundation of Architectural History

Author : Alexandrina Buchanan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781843838005

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Robert Willis (1800-1875) and the Foundation of Architectural History by Alexandrina Buchanan Pdf

The first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "founding father" of architectural history.

Antiquaries

Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1852853093

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Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise.

London In The Nineteenth Century

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446477113

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Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.

Time's Witness

Author : Rosemary Hill
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141947419

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Time's Witness by Rosemary Hill Pdf

From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment, concerned with kings and statesmen, gave way to a new interest in the lives of ordinary people. Oral history, costume history, the history of food and furniture, of Gothic architecture, theatre and much else were explored as never before. Antiquarianism, the study of the material remains of the past, was not new, but now hundreds of men - and some women - became antiquaries and set about rediscovering their national history, in Britain, France and Germany. The Romantic age valued facts, but it also valued imagination and it brought both to the study of history. Among its achievements were the preservation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the analysis and dating of Gothic architecture, and the first publication of Beowulf. It dispelled old myths, and gave us new ones: Shakespeare's birthplace, clan tartans and the arrow in Harold's eye are among their legacies. From scholars to imposters the dozen or so antiquaries at the heart of this book show us history in the making.