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William and Cowper's
'" This probably refers to William Cowper's poem.
The fourth verse of William Cowper's hymn " Sometimes a Light Surprises ", written in 1779, quotes.
William Cowper's poem, Boadicea, an ode ( 1782 ) popularised an alternate version of the name.
The title is taken from William Cowper's translation of Book II of Homer's Iliad: " The vulture's maw / Shall have his carcase, and the dogs his bones.
* Detailed account of William Cowper's life in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
A bulbourethral gland, also called a Cowper's gland for anatomist William Cowper, is one of two small exocrine glands present in the reproductive system of human males.
Here is an example from William Cowper's " Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk " ( 1782 ), composed in anapaestic trimeter:
He made his reputation by The Pleasures of Memory when William Cowper's fame was still in the making.
* William Cowper's Poems ( 1825 )
After his Roman period he produced fewer outline designs for the engraver except three for William Cowper's translations of the Latin poems of John Milton ( 1810 ).
* An incident on the round the world voyage is the subject of William Cowper's famed poem The Castaway.
* William Cowper's poem, The Colubriad, refers to his queue of flatterers while a prisoner in London
William Cowper's poem, the " Loss of the Royal George ," commemorates this disaster.
The museum was William Cowper's actual house, and was given to the town in 1905 by the publisher William Hill Collingridge ( who had been born in the house himself ).
Ware was the unintended destination of John Gilpin in William Cowper's comic poem.
* John Gilpin, a real-life character featured in William Cowper's ballad, The Diverting History of John Gilpin
* William Cowper ( anatomist )-surgeon, gave his name to Cowper's gland
* William Cowper's Letters ( 1911 ), editor
William Cowper FRS ( c. 1666 – 8 March 1709 ) was an English surgeon and anatomist, famous for his early description of what is now known as the Cowper's gland.
Shaw's distaste for this attitude to Shakespeare is anticipated by William Cowper's attack on Garrick's whole festival as blasphemous in his poem The Task ( 1785 ).
He translated some of the Confucian classics into English, notably The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius and The Universal Order or Conduct of Life ; and rendered William Cowper's narrative poem The Diverting History of John Gilpin into classical Chinese verse ( known as 癡漢騎馬歌 ).

William and Solitude
* William Penn-Some Fruits of Solitude
** Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
Her influences include William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 novel, 100 Years of Solitude and the magical realism style.
" The Uses of Shelley: ' Alastor ' to ' The Triumph of Life ' ( Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude ).

William and Alexander
), George Jean Nathan and Alexander Woollcott were honored in odd quarters, and the whole Booth Tarkington, Willa Catheter ( sic ), ) Pearl, Buck,, Amy Lowell, William Lyon Phelps atmosphere lay thick as Los Angeles smog
* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875
William of Malmesbury's account attacks Sybilla, but the evidence argues that Alexander and Sybilla were a devoted but childless couple and Sybilla was of noteworthy piety.
Alexander III was also the grandson of William the Lion.
Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.
In 1529 he executed The Battle of Alexander at Issus for Duke William IV of Bavaria.
His rather atypical Battle of Issus ( or of Alexander ) of 1529 was commissioned by William IV, Duke of Bavaria as part of a series of eight historical battle scenes destined to hang in the Residenz in Munich.
He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.
Other chemists who brought major contributions to organic chemistry include Alexander William Williamson with his synthesis of ethers and Christopher Kelk Ingold, who, among many discoveries, established the mechanisms of substitution reactions.
In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.
Alexander William Doniphan joined Atchison's law practice in Liberty in May, 1833.
The two line poetic form as a closed couplet was also used by William Blake in his poem Auguries of Innocence and also by Byron ( Don Juan ( Byron ) XIII ); John Gay ( Fables ); Alexander Pope ( An Essay on Man ).
This followed the deaths in 1584 of the allies William the Silent, Prince of Orange, and Francis, Duke of Anjou, and the surrender of a series of Dutch towns to Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Philip's governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
The Congress was a personal triumph for Francis, where he hosted the assorted dignitaries in comfort, though Francis undermined his allies Tsar Alexander and Frederick William III of Prussia by negotiating a secret treaty with the restored French king Louis XVIII.
They decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing XIII Corps commander William Gott to the Eighth Army command and General Sir Harold Alexander as C-in-C Middle East Command.
With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.
The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946
Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.
* 1808 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1887 )
Alexander was the host of the Comedy Central Roast of actor William Shatner on August 13, 2006 ( first airdate: August 20, 2006 ).
If Wycliffe was in philosophy the superior of his contemporaries and had no equal in scholastic discipline, he belongs with the series of great scholastic philosophers and theologians in which England in the Middle Ages was so rich – with Alexander of Hales, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham ( Occam ), and Thomas Bradwardine.

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