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tea and the polite amusements
To dip or to pour. that is the question…. The Tea Party felt it was better to pour tea into the waters around the Boston wharf. Maybe if they had poured water into the barrels of tea history would have … Continue reading
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Tagged aleksei naumov, Christopher Hitchens, henry saville, John Lennon, john lennon tea, jonas hanway, Lewis Carroll, mary cassatt, richard collins artist, William Makepiece Thackeray, Yoko Ono
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london calling…across the folly ditch
Jacob’s Island was one of the most notorious of the riverside slums in early Victorian England. Accessible only by rickety wooden bridges that spanned odorous and oozy ditches, Jacob’s Island was a noisome enclave of decaying houses whose windows, windows … Continue reading
comic history : royal bedding of madcap laughs
The Victorians seemed to have an avaricious relationship with history. They simultaneously were involved in the creation of it and when taking a respite from this burden of civilizing humanity they were reading it; endlessly and for the authors quite … Continue reading
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Tagged British caricature, British Cartoon, Charles Dickens, George Cruickshank, James Gillray, John Flaxman, John Leech, John Leech caricature, John Leech engravings, John Tenniel, Robert Cruickshank, Thackeray, Thomas a Beckett, Thomas Rowlandson, William Makepiece Thackeray
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AVOIDING THOSE PERIPHERAL REGIONS OF ROMANCE
Call it a poetic faith whose satisfying sense of wonder compelled them to stop short of that marvellous and enticing flame of Promethean enchantment. Heros zigzagging with tolerable chance. “…in the preface to Tom Jones , Fielding formally asserted his belief … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian McCrea, Byron, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Henry Fuseli, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Flaxman, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Peter Jan de Voogd, Rev. John Trusler, Richard Hurd, Richard Nordquist, Robin Bates, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Shakespeare, Simon Stein, Simon Varey, Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Thomas R. Cleary, Tobias Smollet, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray
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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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