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Anecdotes remained popular in Europe well into the 18th century, when the fictional anecdotal letters of Sir Roger de Coverley were published.
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Anecdotes and Europe
He developed a taste for literature, and his miscellaneous works include The Savages of Europe ( London, 1764 ), a satire on the English which he translated from the French, and Anecdotes Ancient and Modern ( London, 1789 ), an amusing collection of gossip.
Anecdotes and well
Nichols co-operated with Abraham Farley in the production of the 1783 edition of Domesday Book, which he called in his Literary Anecdotes “ the most invaluable as well as most antient Record in this or any other kingdom ”.
Edmund Burke included the piece in The Annual Register for that year, and when Edmond Malone in 1776 worked on a biographical memoir for Poems and Plays by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1777 ) he based it on Glover's Anecdotes as well as first-hand information from Dr. Thomas Wilson, Senior Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.
Anecdotes suggest the police were worried about having to bust their fellow officers as well as local and state politicians.
Anecdotes and into
On the death of his friend and master in 1777 he published a brief memoir, which afterwards grew into the Anecdotes of William Bowyer and his Literary Friends ( 1782 ).
The Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century ( 1812 – 15, nine volumes ), into which the original work was expanded, forms only a small part of Nichols's production.
Anecdotes describing garments designed to protect the wearer from penetrating weapons can be found far back into recorded history.
Anecdotes and 18th
" He carried on an extensive correspondence with some of the leading men of his time, and many of his letters appear in Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century ( London, 1812 – 1815 ) and Illustrations of the Literary History of the 18th Century ( London, 1817 – 1858 ) by J. Nichols, in the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, vol.
* John Nichols-The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, volume 1
* John Nichols Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century ( vol.
Anecdotes and century
:" Anecdotes of the nineteenth new century or historiettes, recent anecdotes, features and words little known, singular adventures, various quotations, bringings together and curious parts, to be used for the history of customs and the spirit of the century when we live compared with the last centuries.
Anecdotes and when
However, Montagu's historical observations, both in the " Anecdotes " and the " Turkish Embassy Letters ," prove quite accurate when put in context.
Anecdotes and letters
After Johnson's death, she published Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson ( 1786 ) and her letters ( 1788 ).
Anecdotes and Sir
* Smith, Sir Harry " Various Anecdotes and Events of my Life-The Autobiography of Lt. Gen. Sir Harry Smith, covering the period 1787 to 1860 " First published in 2 volumes, edited by G. C.
* Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton, P. C., Timothy Healy: Memories and Anecdotes.
In 1834 his biographical work Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott was published in the United States, while a pirated version published in Edinburgh led to a break with Lockhart.
* Literary Anecdotes of the 19th Century, edited by Sir W Robertson Nicoll and TJ Wise ( 2 vols., London, 1895 – 1896 ), containing a number of Wade's sonnets, a specimen of his Dante translation and a reprint of two of his verse pamphlets
* Section on Sir Boyle Roche from The Percy Anecdotes
* The Works, Political, Metaphysical and Chronological, of the late Sir James Steuart of Coltness, Bart., now first collected, with Anecdotes of the Author, by his Son, General Sir James Denham Steuart, were published in 6 vols 8vo in 1805.
Anecdotes and de
Here he witnessed the revolution which seated Catherine II of Russia on the throne, and thus obtained the facts noted in Anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie en 1762.
See also a notice by Eugène Asse prefixed to an edition ( 1890 ) of Rulhière's Anecdotes sur le Maréchal de Richelieu ; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi ( vol.
* In 1731, the Abbé Jean Terrasson wrote Séthos, Histoire ou Vie Tirée des Monuments, Anecdotes de l ' Ancienne Égypte (" Story or Life Drawn from Monuments & Anecdotes from Ancient Egypt "), whose pseudo-Egyptian and occult themes were later tapped by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for his opera The Magic Flute.
Mémoires et Anecdotes sur la Dynastie régnante des Djogouns, Souverains du Japon, avec la description des fêtes et cérémonies observées aux différentes époques de l ' année à la Cour de ces Princes, et un appendice contenant des détails sur la poésie des Japonais, leur manière de diviser l ' année, etc.
* Toussaint, François-Vincent: Anecdotes curieuses de la cour de France sous la régne de Louis XV.
This admirable intention caused the rise of the Waldensians under Peter Waldo (" Anecdotes Historiques tirés du Recueil inédit d ' Etienne de Bourbon, O. P.
* Toussaint, Anecdotes curieuses de.
Anecdotes and were
" Anecdotes of his reckless life were emphasized by the use of his name in connection with the apocryphal Merrie conceited Jests of George Peele ( printed in 1607 ).
Anecdotes by contemporary figures suggest they were initially chased away by locals, and were only allowed to speak to Meredith after they bought drinks for his mining colleagues.
Anecdotes were told of his eccentric speech and his rustic manners.
The antiquary and engraver George Vertue was a figure in the London art scene for most of the period, and his copious notebooks were adapted and published in the 1760s by Horace Walpole as Some Anecdotes of Painting in England, which remains a principal source for the period.
Anecdotes from Bennett Cerf's Try and Stop Me were sources for stories, including " Yellow " ( issue 1 ) and " The Patriots " ( issue 2 ).
Anecdotes and published
The American author, Washington Irving, also mentioned the native Americans resident at Wishram in his history of the Northwest titled Astoria Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains and published in 1836.
A share in the composition, if not the sole authorship, of the books published under the name of the author of The Whole Duty of Man has been attributed to Allestree ( Nichols's Anecdotes, ii.
A further attack on Fréron entitled Anecdotes sur Fréron ... ( 1760 ), published anonymously, is generally attributed to Voltaire.
In May 1774, shortly after the death of Oliver Goldsmith, Glover published his " Authentic Anecdotes " on the poet in The Universal Magazine.
In the Percy Anecdotes, published pseudonymously in 1820, the authors state that " How long the ducking-stool has been in disuse in England does not appear.
Her first published novel was " Count St Blanchard " in 1795: others include, The Abbey of Cluny, The Mysterious Wife, Anecdotes of the Altamont Family, and Which is the Man ?.
In 1799 appeared his first acknowledged work, Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution, strongly anti-Jacobin in tone, and differing widely from the Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, published anonymously in 1797, and often erroneously ascribed to Adolphus.
In 1805 he published Ballads founded on Anecdotes of Animals ( Chichester ), with illustrations by Blake, and in 1809 The Life of Romney.
He published Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes in 1797, and his Correspondence with friend John Wilkes appeared posthumously.
Called Beltway Bloopers: Hilarious Quotes and Anecdotes from Washington, D. C., it was published by Metro Books.
An autobiography Anecdotes of the life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff was finished in 1814 and published posthumously in 1817.
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