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In the 1728 version of the poem, the goddess Dulness notes that " Time himself stands still at her command ,/ Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land " ( Dunciad 1728, i, 69 – 70 ).
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1728 and version
* 1728: The Dunciad by Alexander Pope ( publication of first version )
Newton's heirs shortly afterwards published the Latin version in their possession, also in 1728, under the ( new ) title De Mundi Systemate, amended to update cross-references, citations and diagrams to those of the later editions of the Principia, making it look superficially as if it had been written by Newton after the Principia, rather than before.
After the break-up of Handel's Royal Academy in 1728, Senesino sang in Paris ( 1728 ) and Venice ( 1729 ), but was re-engaged by Handel in 1730, singing in four more new operas and in the oratorios Esther, Deborah, and, in its 1732 bilingual version, Acis and Galatea.
His first quotation is from Jockey's Escape from Dundee ; the second is from Scots Callan o ' Bonnie Dundee ( though a version of these lines also appears in Jockey's Escape ); and the third is from John Gay, The Beggar's Opera ( 1728 ; Air LVII, The Charge is prepar'd ).
Portrait's of the 1728 version of Fauchard's book, the " Surgical dentist ".
The first version ( the " three book " Dunciad ) was published in 1728 anonymously.
In the third book of the first version of Dunciad ( 1728 ), Pope had referred contemptuously to Cibber's " past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd, new " plays, produced with " less human genius than God gives an ape ".
More revisions followed for yet another version presented in 1721 and again for further revival in 1728.
1728 and poem
He wrote in his sixteenth year a poem to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, which was prefixed by Henry Pemberton to his View of Newton's Philosophy, published in 1728.
Pope told Joseph Spence ( in Spence's Anecdotes ) that he had been working on a general satire of Dulness, with characters of contemporary scribblers, for some time and that it was the publication of Shakespeare Restored by Lewis Theobald that spurred him to complete the poem and publish it in 1728.
His poem celebrates a war, rather than a mere victory, and a process of ignorance, and Pope picks as his champion of all things insipid Lewis Theobald ( 1728 and ' 32 ) and Colley Cibber ( 1742 ).
1728 and notes
" Quantz is certainly accurate in describing Farinelli as a soprano, since arias in his repertoire contained the highest notes customarily employed by that voice during his lifetime: " Fremano l ' onde " in Pietro Torri's opera Nicomede ( 1728 ) and " Troverai se a me ti fidi " in Niccolò Conforto's La Pesca ( 1737 ) both contain sustained C6.
In 1700 he became acquainted with Dr. John Woodward ( 1665 – 1728 ), physician to the duke and author of a work entitled The Natural History of the Earth, to whom he entrusted a large number of fossils of his own collecting, along with a mass of manuscript notes, for arrangement and publication.
Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum ( 1728 – 1737, illustrated by Jacob van Huysum ), and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues ( 1749 ) and Georgics ( 1741 ) of Virgil.
* Roger North ’ s the Musicall Grammarian: 1728, edited with introductions and notes by Mary Chan and Jamie C. Kassler, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
1728 and himself
Hewer himself died without issue on 6 November 1728, when it passed to Hewer's heirs, the Blackborne family.
Johanna Bentley married Denison Cumberland in 1728, a grandson of Richard Cumberland the bishop of Peterborough, and himself later a bishop of the Church of Ireland.
The notorious fake antique fresco of Jupiter and Ganymede, tailored to deceive Winckelmann has been attributed to Mengs or Giovanni CasanovaWith the aid of his new friend, the painter Anton Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 79 ), with whom he first lived in Rome, Winckelmann devoted himself to the study of Roman antiquities and gradually acquired an unrivalled knowledge of ancient art.
Pope avenged himself by having Curll figure very prominently in the 1728 Dunciad.
* William Bellenden-Ker, 4th Duke of Roxburghe ( 1728 – 1805 ), grandson of Lord Bellenden ( himself fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl ), died without issue and the Roxburghe titles went dormant 1805 – 12
In 1728 he left Paris, occupied his residence at Montpellier, gave up politics, and devoted himself entirely to letters.
Haller then visited London, making the acquaintance of Sir Hans Sloane, William Cheselden, John Pringle, James Douglas and other scientific men ; next, after a short stay in Oxford, he visited Paris, where he studied under Henri François Le Dran and Jacob Winslow ; and in 1728 he proceeded to Basel, where he devoted himself to the study of higher mathematics under John Bernoulli.
In 1728 he began painting " Dean George Berkeley and His Family ," also called " The Bermuda group ", now in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, a group of eight figures ; it is maintained that the person farthest to the left is actually the artist himself.
His position on Pope Clement XI's 1713 bull Unigenitus was also controversial ; he opposed it, despite papal disapproval, up to 1728 but then abruptly reversed himself shortly before his death.
He soon came under the influence of Wilhelm Hoffman, a pietistic revivalist, and devoted himself to writing and public speaking, withdrawing in 1728 from all secular pursuits and giving himself entirely to religious work.
1728 and stands
The palace of Calice ( 1728 ) stands out next to the modern buildings that were rebuilt after the war.
1728 and still
After Newton's death in 1727, the relatively accessible character of its writing encouraged the publication of an English translation in 1728 ( by persons still unknown, not authorised by Newton's heirs ).
The inventory listing of 1476 shows that the tapestry was being hung annually in Bayeux Cathedral for the week of the Feast of St. John the Baptist and this was still the case in 1728 although by that time the purpose was merely to air the hanging which was otherwise stored in a chest.
Étienne-Louis Boullée ( February 12, 1728 – February 4, 1799 ) was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects and is still influential today.
Hogarth was initiated as a Freemason some time before 1728 in the Lodge at the Hand and Apple Tree Tavern, Little Queen Street, and later belonged to the Carrier Stone Lodge and the Grand Stewards ' Lodge ; the latter still possesses the ' Hogarth Jewel ' which Hogarth designed for the Lodge's Master to wear.
After many failed attempts to derive the parallel postulate from other axioms, the study of the still hypothetical hyperbolic geometry by Johann Heinrich Lambert ( 1728 – 1777 ) led him to introduce the hyperbolic functions and compute the area of a hyperbolic triangle ( where the sum of angles is less than 180 °).
In New York City, Shearith Israel Congregation is the oldest continuous congregation started in 1687 having their first synagogue erected in 1728, and its current building still houses some of the original pieces of that first.
The park is contiguous with Kensington Gardens ; although often still assumed to be part of Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens has been technically separate since 1728, when Queen Caroline made a division between the two.
This bell still survives, although it was renewed in 1728.
The ornate silver tureens of that period figure in buffets — still life of silver and game — by artists such as Alexandre-François Desportes, or in more modest still life, such as the painting by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( illustration ), which is dated 1728 but depicts a silver tureen of Baroque form of the first decade of the century.
As permanent settlements were established in the Louisiana colony, churches were erected: the first permanent church in the region was St. Francis Chapel of Pointe Coupée, built in 1728 and still standing.
Later still, the most majestic work of the era, and the one most quoted and read, was William Law's A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ( 1728 ).
This bell still survives, although it was renewed in 1728.
After 1728, Hylton's second son, John Hylton, de jure 18th Baron Hylton added a complementary south wing ( its foundation wall still extant ), crenellations to both wings and removed the door on the north wing.
One was recast by William Tosier of Salisbury in 1728 and another by Mears and Stainbank in 1882 but the third mediaeval bell still hung in the tower in 1927.
1728 and at
They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.
It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.
1728 illustration of the Ark at the erection of the Tabernacle and the sacred vessels, as in Exodus 40: 17-19
Distance education dates to at least as early as 1728, when " an advertisement in the Boston Gazette ... ' Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the new method of Short Hand " was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly.
Born in 1728, Floridablanca was eighty years of age at the time of the revolutionary outbreak in 1808.
Between 1725 and 1728 John and his brother James, also a skilled joiner, made at least three precision pendulum-clocks, again with oak and lignum vitae movements and longcase.
Bernadotte was born in Pau, France, as the son of Jean Henri Bernadotte ( Pau, Béarn, 14 October 1711 – Pau, 31 March 1780 ), procurator at Pau, and wife ( married at Boëil-Bezing, 20 February 1754 ) Jeanne de Saint-Vincent ( Pau, 1 April 1728 – Pau, 8 January 1809 ).
* Agostino Steffani ( 1653 – 1728 ) was Kapellmeister from 1688 to 1698 at the court of Hanover.
Bolívar's grandfather, Juan de Bolívar y Martínez de Villegas, paid 22, 000 ducats to the monastery at Santa Maria de Montserrat in 1728 for a title of nobility that had been granted by the king, Philip V of Spain, for its maintenance.
Berkenhout gave the brown rat the binomial name Rattus norvegicus, believing it had migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728, although no brown rat had entered Norway at that time.
As a consequence, the ship they constructed ( named the Archangel Gabriel ) was ready to be launched as soon as 9 June 1728 from its construction point upriver at Ushka.
Marivaux wrote between 30 and 40 plays, the best of which are the Surprise de l ' amour ( 1722 ), the Triomphe de Plutus ( 1728 ), Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard ( 1730 ) ( The Game of Love and Chance ), Les Fausses confidences ( 1737 ), all produced at the Italian theatre, and Le Legs ( 1736 ), produced at the French.
In 1728, Conrad Beissel, a Brethren minister at Conestoga ( Lancaster County, PA ) renounced his association with the Brethren and formed his own group at Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
Among his efforts in oil between 1728 and 1732 were The Fountaine Family ( c. 1730 ), The Assembly at Wanstead House, The House of Commons examining Bambridge, and several pictures of the chief actors in John Gay's popular The Beggar's Opera.
Historian Ed Kirby tells us that traces of iron were discovered in what was to become Salisbury in 1728, with the discovery of the large deposit at Old Hill ( later Ore Hill ) in 1731 by John Pell and Ezekiel Ashley.
Adam was born on the 3 July 1728 at Gladney House in Kirkcaldy, Fife, although the family moved to Edinburgh later that same year.
First granted in 1728, the town was known as " Lovewell's Town ", in honor of Captain John Lovewell, who built the stockade at Ossipee.
He died on 24 March 1728 and is entombed at St. Mary ’ s Syrian Orthodox Church, Kandanadu.
Bridge over the New Canal at Holborn, 1728.
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