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the great estates: country life
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England… …The great age of building came to France in the sixteenth century, the time when many of the fabulous chateaux of the Loire were built, creating a tradition of palatial architecture which, modified and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cholmondeley Family, Christopher Wren, England Hanoverian kings, Georgian England, Horace Walpole, Houghton Hall England, Inigo Jones, John Wootton painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, the Four Georges, William Hogarth
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LURKING DISASTERS THAT AWAIT ALL GOOD MEN
Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what gold’s for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Rawson, Cervantes, Claude Rawson, Francisco Goya, G.M. Godden, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, James Gillray, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Mary Vidal, Oliver Goldsmith, Pablo Picasso, Paul Baines, Richard Dorment, Robert Walpole, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Thomas Rowlandson, Titian Venus of Urbino, William Makepiece Thackeray, William Shenstone
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HENRY FIELDING :LONDON CALLING & POETIC FAITH
London calling to the faraway towns Now war is declared – and battle come down London calling to the underworld Come out of the cupboard,you boys and girls London calling, now don’t look to us Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alexander Welsh, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, Claude Rawson, David Garrick, G.M. Godden, Gay, George Bernard Shaw, Horace Walpole, John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Ralph Allen Bath, Robert Walpole, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Simon Varey, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray
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HIS MUSE HAD SUNG THE LOUDEST IN TAVERN CHORUSES
By the publication of Tom Jones in 1749, Henry Fielding had asserted that the idealized, morally beyond reproach hero is no longer a viable character in literature. The idea of perfectibility was replaced by human flaw and redemption. Secondly, Fielding … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alpha Ben, Daniel Defoe, Edmund Fielding, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Ralph Allen, Ralph Allen Bath, Robert Walpole, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas R. Cleary, William Hogarth
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