The Auto Biography Of John Britton Volume 2

Author : John Britton
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781357971007
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Auto-Biography of John Britton, Volume 2 written by John Britton and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John Britton
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230141329
Total Pages : 158 pages
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Download or read book The Autobiography of John Britton Volume 2 written by John Britton and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...

Author : John Britton
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Total Pages : 474 pages
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Author : John Britton
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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book 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.] written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Britton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
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Download or read book The Auto-biography of John Britton: A descriptive account of the literary works, by T.E. Jones written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Loxton
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785789562
Total Pages : 439 pages
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Download or read book UPROAR! written by Alice Loxton and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **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!

Author : John Britton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book The Auto-biography of John Britton: Personal and literary memoir of the author written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank O'Gorman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230518885
Total Pages : 251 pages
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Download or read book Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century written by Frank O'Gorman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sarah Zimmerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192569554
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain written by Sarah Zimmerman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alexandrina Buchanan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843838001
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book Robert Willis (1800-1875) and the Foundation of Architectural History written by Alexandrina Buchanan and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "founding father" of architectural history.