One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

Tomb Raider is a media franchise consisting of video games, comic books, novels, theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the fictional English archaeologist Lara Croft.

Two movies — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life — have been produced starring American actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, the first of which is still the highest-grossing film adaptation of a video game ever released in US, and third worldwide.

The central character in Tomb Raider is the English archaeologist Lara Croft, a female adventurer in search of ancient relics.

For example, in the first Tomb Raider game manual, Lara Croft is said to have survived a plane crash in the Himalayas at the age of twenty one, and was later disowned by her parents, who are still living.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, the college also acquired the area formerly known as Volney's Croft, which today is the area of St Peter's Terrace, the William Stone Building and the Scholars ' Garden.

Gilmore is co-author with Bill Croft of the 1985 Bootstrap Protocol ( RFC 951 ), which evolved into DHCP, the primary way to obtain an IP address upon joining an Ethernet or wireless network.

The son of Sir George Croft of Crofts Limited, a competitor of Birling and Company, he is at the Birling residence to celebrate his recent engagement to Sheila Birling.

Margaret Rutherford was educated at Wimbledon High School, and, from the age of about 13, at Raven's Croft School, a boarding school at Sutton Avenue, Seaford, where she is listed, aged 18, on the 1911 census.

Incorporated in 1873, the city is named for pioneer James Croft, who donated the land which the city occupies.

There is also a corner named after him at the Croft racing circuit at Croft on Tees in North Yorkshire.

La Croft is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.

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In the Fens and Norfolk Marshland, it was quite possible for the course of a river to change as the result of a flooding episode so it is not surprising to find that the Great Ouse used to enter The Wash by way of the Old Croft River, the Wellstream and Wisbech ( the Ouse beach ).

Rastrick has its own Library which can be found on Crowtrees Lane and a Doctors surgery at Rastrick Health Centre which is on Chapel Croft.

Although Farnham is documented in Saxon texts and most of the local names are derived from their language, there is only one fully attested Saxon site in Farnham, just off the lower part of Firgrove Hill, where a road called Saxon Croft is now sited.

Rose port is a very recent variation on the market, first released in 2008 by Poças and by Croft, part of the Taylor Fladgate Partnership.

Pocklington Town Council is responsible for the cemetery, allotments, the Croft play-park and the Arts Centre within Pocklington.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British sitcom about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party, broadcast on the BBC between 1974 and 1981, and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.

Whilst with Yeovil Botham made an appearance for the Football Association XI ( a representative side for non-league footballers ) against the Northern Football League at Croft Park during the 1984-85 season.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider debuted at number one with $ 48. 2 million, giving Paramount its second-best debut and the fourth-highest debut of 2001.

Croft had been very impressed with the actor and knew that he had the ability to play a man much older than his real age.

* From 1901 to 1924, the romantic novelist Marie Corelli, real name Minnie Mackay, daughter of Charles Mackay, made her home, with her companion Miss Vyver, at Mason's Croft, Church Street, Stratford.

The unseen working class woman who Goole claims has committed suicide whilst pregnant with Eric Birling's baby, and who has been mistreated by each member of the Birling family and by Gerald Croft.

The play had its first English production in 1946 at the New Theatre in London with Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole, Harry Andrews as Gerald Croft, Margaret Leighton as Sheila Birling, Julian Mitchell as Arthur Birling, Marian Spencer as Sybil Birling and Alec Guinness as Eric Birling.

Alastair Sim starred as Inspector Goole, renamed " Poole " for the film, with Jane Wenham as Eva Smith, Eileen Moore as Sheila Birling, Arthur Young as Arthur Birling, Brian Worth as Gerald Croft, Olga Lindo as Sybil Birling and Bryan Forbes as Eric Birling.

* The outside scenes of the two Lara Croft films with Angelina Jolie were shot at Hatfield House which serves as her home in the film.

In later years two women would provide him with companionship, friends Elizabeth Croft and Isabella Wolff who first met Lawrence when she sat for her portrait in 1803.

A few days previously he had experienced chest pains but had continued working and was eagerly anticipating a stay with his sister at Rugby, when he collapsed and died during a visit from his friends Elizabeth Croft and Archibald Keightley.

In conjunction with fellow fast bowlers Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, Colin Croft and later Malcolm Marshall, the West Indies reached unprecedented heights in the Test and one-day cricket arenas, not losing a Test series in 15 years.

It was written mainly by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, with contributions by Michael Knowles and John Chapman.

It was written by Richard Webber, with contributions from David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd.

Phillips has remained busy in both stage and television productions, along with character roles in films like Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ) directed by Steven Spielberg and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ( 2001 ).

His holdings included Anderson Bigham Sheet Metal, which he founded and operated from 1939 – 1989, and Bigham Brothers Manufacturing, established in 1960 with his late brother, Croft Bigham.

Houses such as Spen Hall, Spen House ( now demolished and rebuilt, except the Coach House ), High Rising ( High Royd, another Taylor Household ) now The Gomersal Hotel, Tanfield House, Firdene ( currently on the market for £ 1. 25 million ), Hilltop House ( now split into two homes with apartment buildings in the grounds ), Gomers Hall ( apparently, originally Gothmers Hall, which was demolished in order to build an electricity sub-station ), Pollard Hall ( home of the mill owner Thomas Burnley ), Red House ( now Red House Museum ), Broadyards, Croft House, Sigston House, Gomersal Hall, Peel House, West House ( the last three still privately owned ).

It was the home of the Croft family, who are descended from a common ancestor with the house of Croft, of Croft Castle in Herefordshire.

* Croft ( land ), an area of land with a crofter's dwelling, used for crofting ( small-scale food production ).

* 1971: Promenade Theatre ( Broadway ), New York ; with Robert Ryan ( James ), Geraldine Fitzgerald ( Mary ), Stacy Keach ( Jamie ), James Naughton ( Edmund ), and Paddy Croft ( Cathleen ), directed by Arvin Brown.

Croft became an Officer of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire with Jimmy Perry in 1978 for services to television.

Finally, and again in 1933, the civil parish of Woolston with Martinscroft was abolished and parts used to create the civil parishes of Croft and the modern day civil parish of Woolston, both in Lancashire.

It began with 14 students in a small house in Newnham called Croft Cottage.