Tag Archives: Robert Dighton

CITY OF SOTS: METAPHYSICAL LOVE & “JOVIAL ROARING”

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Dave

“The doppelgänger represents the side of our nature which must be suppressed in a civilised ordering of society.When the straitlaced Presbyterian physician of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde drinks his potion, he releases the more feral and lustful part of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adam Smith, Adam Smith Wealth of Nation, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edward Topham, Henry Dundas, Ian Rankin, J.M. Wright, James Boswell, James Hogg, James Robertson, James Singleton, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Muriel Sparks, Robert Burns, Robert Crumb, Robert Dighton, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robin Williams, Sir William Allan | Leave a comment

LIKE PULLING TEETH

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Dave

”That there is a gigantic combination of the money dealers, a powerful international trust of usurers, asserting a superiority above all jurisdictions, and having for its servants the so-called statesmen and potentates of various nations, who willingly register the decrees … Continue reading →

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MINESTRONIES AND MACARONIES

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Dave

“Why did yankee doodle stick a feather in his hat and call it macaroni? Back in Pre-Revolutionary America when the song ‘Yankee Doodle’ was first popular, the singer was not referring to the pasta ‘macaroni’ in the line that reads … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged British pictorial satire, British pictorial satire and cartoon, Carrington Bowles, Dorothy Boyle, George Townshend, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Mark Bryant, Mary Darly, Robert Dighton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

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CITY OF SOTS: METAPHYSICAL LOVE & “JOVIAL ROARING”

LIKE PULLING TEETH

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