Among its most expensive flops were Great Balls of Fire !, starring Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as his teenage bride ; She-Devil, a domestic horror comedy featuring Meryl Streep and Roseanne Arnold ; and Valmont, a remake of Les Liaisons dangereuses, an eighteenth-century novel and twentieth-century play that already had been adapted and released as Dangerous Liaisons just a few months earlier.

British critic Sir Christopher Frayling identifies three principal sources for A Fistful of Dollars: " Partly derived from Kurosawa's samurai film Yojimbo, partly from Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest ( 1929 ), but most of all from Carlo Goldoni's eighteenth-century play Servant of Two Masters.

* The Truro cordwainers ' play: a " new " eighteenth-century Christmas play — article by Peter Millington in Folklore, April 2003

* Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards A drama in verses after an eighteenth-century Japanese puppet play by the Kabuki playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon-First Produced 1996 Cottesloe auditorium of the Royal National Theatre, London, UK

A drama in verses after an eighteenth-century Japanese puppet play by the Kabuki playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

The myth was perpetuated by Romeyn de Hooghe's Spiegel van Staat der Vereenigden Nederlanden (" Mirror of the State of the United Netherlands ", 1706 ), which also ran to many editions, and it was revived in the atmosphere of Romantic nationalism in the late eighteenth-century reforms that saw a short-lived Batavian Republic and, in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, a capital ( now Jakarta ) that was named Batavia.

* How to become a renowned writer: Francesco Algarotti ( 1712 -- 1764 ) and the uses of networking in eighteenth-century Europe by Smeall, Cheryl Lynn, Ph. D., McGill University ( Canada ), 2011, 449 pages ; AAT NR77555

Leo Damrosch writes, " an eighteenth-century Genevan liturgy still required believers to declare ‘ that we are miserable sinners, born in corruption, inclined to evil, incapable by ourselves of doing good '.

" The eighteenth-century philosophers Shaftesbury and Hutcheson " were obviously inspired in part by Cumberland.

Austen turns the conventions of eighteenth-century novels on their head, by making her heroine a plain and undistinguished girl from a middle-class family, allowing the heroine to fall in love with the hero before he has a serious thought of her, and exposing the heroine's romantic fears and curiosities as groundless.

Their eighteenth-century maul with its 1827 inscription claiming that it was used by Wren for the foundation stone of St. Pauls, belonging to the Lodge and on display in the Freemasons ' Grand Museum, corroborates the story, which is debatable mainly because it would have been in the interests of the Lodge and the Craft to fabricate it.

It is the subject of an eighteenth-century oil on canvas by Joseph-Benoît Suvée and a work by the eighteenth century Irish painter James Barry.

The two banks of the river are joined by Willey's Bridge ( a footbridge ), the Phoenix Causeway ( a recent concrete road bridge, named after the old Phoenix Ironworks ) and Cliffe Bridge ( an eighteenth-century replacement of the mediaeval crossing, widened in the 1930s and now pedestrianised ).

The city was named after Colonel Richard Henderson, an eighteenth-century land speculator, by his associates Gen. Samuel Hopkins and Thomas Allin.

Owing to lack of funds, Worcester's eighteenth-century building programme proceeded by fits and starts.

" In this bleak cynicism about political ideas and political life, The Roman Revolution strongly resembled another controversial historical masterwork, The Structure of English Politics at the Accession of George III, published in 1930 by the specialist in eighteenth-century British political history, Sir Lewis B. Namier.

Other treasures include an eighteenth-century nave with a wrought iron rood screen by Robert Bakewell, for which he charged the church £ 157. 10. 0d ; the memorial to Bess of Hardwick ; and the Cavendish brasses, including those of Henry Cavendish and Georgiana Spencer, the wife of one of the Dukes of Devonshire.

Much of the furniture is by the eighteenth-century English furniture designer Thomas Chippendale, who came from nearby Otley.

A form of meal referred to as Agape was introduced among certain eighteenth-century Pietist groups, such as the Schwarzenau Brethren and the Moravian Church, and was adopted by Methodism.

As described by modern historian Malcolm Barber in The New Knighthood: " It was during the 1760s that German masons introduced a specific Templar connection, claiming that the Order, through its occupation of the Temple of Solomon, had been the repository of secret wisdom and magical powers, which James of Molay had handed down to his successor before his execution and of which the eighteenth-century Freemasons were the direct heirs.

The novel represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of eighteenth-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical ( and, by extension, aristocratic ) approach of Augustans such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift ; and the popular, domestic prose fiction of novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson.

It also denoted the literati ( Latin, plural of literatus ), the " citizens of the Republic of Letters " in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century France, where it evolved into the salon, usually run by women.

The principle was one among a number that became established in early eighteenth-century text criticism, as part of attempts by scholars of the Enlightenment to provide a neutral basis for discovering an Urtext, independent of the weight of traditional authority.

There are translations into English verse by the seventeenth-century poet Thomas Stanley ( 1651 ); by the an eighteenth-century " graveyard school " poet Thomas Parnell ( 1679-1718 ); by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by " Q "; by F. L. Lucas ( 1939 ; reprinted in his Aphrodite, Cambridge, 1948 ); and by Allen Tate ( 1947 ; see his Collected Poems ).

He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, corresponded with Lewis Morris ( 1701 – 1765 ), and was one of the eighteenth-century owners of David Johns's manuscript.

But it soon became clear that the search for eighteenth-century furniture ( which Mrs. Kennedy feels is the proper period for the White House ) must be pursued in places other than government storage rooms.

Related to the argument from morality is the argument from conscience, associated with eighteenth-century bishop Joseph Butler and nineteenth-century cardinal John Henry Newman.

The Shakers is a religious sect founded in eighteenth-century England upon the teachings of Ann Lee.

The modern term chemical affinity is a somewhat modified variation of its eighteenth-century precursor " elective affinity " or elective attractions, a coinage of the Swedish chemist Torbern Olof Bergman from his book De attractionibus electivis ( 1775 ).

An eighteenth-century response to the novel from the Monthly Review reads: “ We must hear no more of enchanted forests and castles, giants, dragons, walls of fire and other ‘ monstrous and prodigious things ;’ – yet still forests and castles remain, and it is still within the province of fiction, without overstepping the limits of nature, to make use of them for the purpose of creating surprise .”

Compared to many eighteenth-century authors, Sterne's body of work is quite small.

Thomas Reid, the eighteenth-century founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, realised that sensation was composed of a set of data transfers but declared that there is still a direct connection between perception and the world.

The unit of power is the joule per second ( J / s ), known as the watt ( in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century developer of the steam engine ).

Paine's text is still published today, one of the few eighteenth-century religious texts to be widely available.

* Putnam's cottage, an eighteenth-century residence that may have served as a tavern at the time of his escape, is located on this avenue.

In Belgium, a strong French architectural influence is evident in the seventeenth-century Château des Comtes de Marchin and the eighteenth-century Château de Seneffe.

Later works include Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century psychological novel Tristam Shandy, while in the nineteenth-century it has been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " foreshadows this literary technique .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 1785800 / The-Tell-Tale-Heart >.</ ref > Because of his renunciation of chronology in favor of free association, Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers Sont Coupés ( 1887 ) is also an important precursor to the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and Joyce is believed to have known this work.

The borough is located on the east bank of the Allegheny River, founded on the site of the eighteenth-century Native American village of Kittanning at the western end of the Kittanning Path.

The primary objective of New Federalism, unlike that of the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, is the restoration to the states of some of the autonomy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Semiramis is depicted as an armed Amazons | Amazon in this eighteenth-century Italian illustration.

He is remembered as " the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due ", and " England's greatest gardener ".

Podhoretz is just out of touch with twentieth-century literature, he's writing for the eighteenth-century mind.

The boscage form was used in English for leafy decoration such as is found on eighteenth-century porcelain.

The term " proof " is generally, but not consistently, applied only to prints from the late eighteenth-century onwards, beginning with the English mezzotinters, who began the practice of issuing small editions of proofs for collectors, often before the " lettering " or inscription below the image was added.

There is an oddity whereby part of eighteenth-century parish of Govan ( which was in Lanarkshire ) is counted as being within Renfrewshire.