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Horace Walpole, notoriously hard to please, wrote after a visit in 1753, " I wore out my eyes with gazing, my feet with climbing, and my tongue and vocabulary with commending ".
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Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled " A Gothic Story ".
Strawberry Hill House | Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the " Gothic Revival architecture | Gothic revival " style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole
In literature, Gothic novel combines dark elements of both horror and romance: English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is one of the first writers who explored this genre.
Horace and hard
Sir Horace Rowland of the Foreign Office said, " I am afraid that it is likely to go hard with Miss Cavell ; I am afraid we are powerless.
The piano riff for " Rikki " was lifted directly from the title track to Song for My Father by hard bop pianist Horace Silver.
He took part in one of the earliest hard bop sessions, alongside Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins and trumpeter Kenny Dorham.
A student from the hard bop school, he played from 1973 to 1976 with Horace Silver and from 1977 to 1983 with Cedar Walton.
One of Blue Note's greatest mainstream hard bop dates, " Song for My Father " is Horace Silver's signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics ... it hangs together remarkably well, and Silver's writing is at his tightest
Horace and please
Alexander Pope, in his Sober Advice from Horace, wrote of her " Engaging Oldfield, who, with grace and ease, Could join the arts to ruin and to please.
Horace, however, says that he would have to " endure much " and " stop up his ears " if he had to listen to " Callimachus ... to please the sensitive stock of poets "; Postgate and others see this as a veiled attack on Propertius, who considered himself the Roman heir to Callimachus.
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Horace, who often wrote in imitation of Alcaeus, sketches in verse one of the Lesbian poet's favourite subjects-Lycus of the black hair and eyes ( C. 1. 32. 11-12: nigris oculis nigroque / crine decorum ).
Marvell, in his Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland uses a regular form ( two four-foot lines followed by two three-foot lines ) modelled on Horace, while Cowley wrote " Pindarique " odes which had irregular patterns of line lengths and rhyme schemes, though they were iambic.
The two most prominent and influential ancient Roman satirists are Horace and Juvenal, who wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire.
A few centuries later, Horace wrote in his Odes that Sappho's lyrics are worthy of sacred admiration.
In the article, Horace Greeley wrote an especially admiring description of the final speech, one given by Lucy Stone.
" Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune wrote " When a sincere republican is asked to say in sober earnest what adequate reason he can give, for refusing the demand of women to an equal participation with men in political rights, he must answer, None at all.
Quintilian wrote, " Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable.
Lieutenant Horace Smith-Dorrien, a member of Chelmsford's staff, wrote that the day after the battle an improvised gallows was used " for hanging Zulus who were supposed to have behaved treacherously ".
11, 17, 30, 34, 51, 61 ) and Horace ( four books of Odes ) wrote lyric poetry, which however was no longer meant to be sung, but read or recited.
During the Trojan War, Telamonian Ajax kills Tecmessa's father and takes her captive ; his reason for doing so may have been, as the 1st century BC Roman poet, Horace, wrote, that Ajax was captivated by Tecmessa's beauty.
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, wrote complaining to his friend and relative Henry Seymour Conway, then Lieutenant General of the Ordnance, that all the decorative painted glass had been blown out of his windows at Strawberry Hill.
Horace Walpole wrote that Hogarth had run a great risk to go there since the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, he went to France, and was so imprudent as to be taking a sketch of the drawbridge at Calais.
Tourists also began to trickle into the area, drawn to the Smokies by the writings of authors such as Mary Noailles Murfree and Horace Kephart, who wrote extensively of the region's natural wonders.
He then wrote the Art of Love, a poem ; and in 1709 imitated Horace in an Art of Cookery, which he published with some letters to Lister.
By 1751, when Brown was beginning to be widely known, Horace Walpole wrote somewhat slightingly of Brown's work at Warwick Castle:
Horace Walpole wrote to Lady Ossory: " Your dryads must go into black gloves, Madam, their father-in-law, Lady Nature ’ s second husband, is dead !".
Although he had long studied Horace, Bentley wrote his version quickly in the end, publishing it in 1711 to gain public support at a critical period of the Trinity quarrel.
He wrote a large number of imitations of Anacreon, Horace and the minnesingers, a didactic poem entitled Halladat oder das rote Buch ( 1774 ), and collections of fables and romances.
Horace Walpole later wrote about Gibbons: " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.
" Even today " wrote musicologist Horace Boyer in 1983, " ministers quote his texts in the midst of their sermons as if they were poems, as indeed they are.
Commager married author Evan Alexa Carroll ( b. Feb 4, 1904, d. Mar 28 1968 ) of Bennettsville, South Carolina on July 3, 1928 ; the couple had three children, Henry Steele Commager Jr., known as Steele Commager, who became an eminent classicist at Columbia University and wrote the leading book on the Roman poet Horace ; Elizabeth Carroll Commager ; and Nellie Thomas McCall Commager ( now Nell Lasch, wife of the historian Christopher Lasch ).
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