Tag Archives: john dryden

manliness: battles of epping forest

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Dave

Long hair, tight pants, and other masculine things, then as now, some things don’t change… …But, you might argue, the Renaissance was a time of violent change, one of those exceptional epochs when an old morality was breaking down and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Hilliard portraits, Jacob Huysmans, John Dennis, john dryden, John Wilmont Earl of Rochester, Nicholas Hilliard, Sir George Etherege, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

banished and vanished

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Dave

Augustus the Imperator. When you have a standing army of 300,000 men you can call yourself just about anything and people will agree with you. In 2 B.C. he had been given the title pater patriae, Father of the Nation, … Continue reading →

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swift sparks of low heeled boys

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Dave

A master satirist, Jonathan Swift was something of a misanthrope. An amiable one, but one who detested mankind. Still, undaunted, he wrote in a stubborn hope that people could be stung, stabbed, and whipped into better sense. Three-hundred years later, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged George Moutard Woodward, Gulliver's Travels, jack black, Jane Collier, john dryden, Jonathan Swift, queen anne, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Rowlandson, thomas tegg, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

angel fatigue: it’s lonely at the top

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dave

Rewards and air miles. frequent flyers.Who knows who you’ll cross flight paths with up in the heavens. Its a difficult issue in dealing with whether ,and how many other spirits in the celestial hierarchy are good or evil, fallen or … Continue reading →

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the masks we wear

Posted on June 5, 2011 by tai

Guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax: exploring the architecture of human imagination. Tai Carmen: A mask of gold hides all deformities.” Thomas Dekker “Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.” John Dryden “Pride is the mask we … Continue reading →