Again a classic of Renaissance literature was the basis of the libretto by Boccherini, in this case a comic mock-epic by Tassoni, in which a war between Modena and Bologna ensues over a stolen bucket.

The poem is often called a mock-epic.

Indeed, the other Roman gods are repeatedly perplexed, humiliated, and made ridiculous by Amor, an otherwise relatively minor god of the pantheon, who is the closest thing this putative mock-epic has to a hero.

The Metamorphoses can be said to be unique in that it is the only Latin mock-epic to have an epilogue.

The Margites is a comic mock-epic of Ancient Greece that is largely lost.

It is presented as a mock-epic melodrama about an ancient Roman legion preparing for war.

Henry Fielding attacked him in The Covent Garden Journal, Christopher Smart wrote a mock-epic, The Hilliad, against him, and David Garrick replied to his strictures against him by two epigrams, one of which runs: " For physics and farces, his equal there scarce is ; His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.

It was Gertrude who inspired his great nonsense mock-epic The Hunting of the Snark ( 1876 ), and the book is dedicated to her, and opens with a poem that uses her name as a double acrostic.

The creatures from this mock-epic are small, celestial creatures which were prudish women in their past-lives, and now spend all of eternity looking out for prudish women ( in parallel to the guardian angels in Catholic belief ).

The poem celebrates the goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of Great Britain.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

Continuing deficits of anything like this magnitude would, over time, impair our own economic growth and check the forward progress of the Free World.

She would hover over him and, looking like her brother, anxiously watch the progress of Scotty's fork or spoon.

With its history standing astride all but the very beginnings of the industrial revolution, Brown & Sharpe has become over the years a singular monument to the mechanical foresight of its founder, Joseph R. Brown, and a world-renowned synonym for precision and progress in metalworking technology.

The progress of science over these last few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific categories of reality have to a large extent emptied the spirit world of the entities which previously populated it.

But while she is able to tell her retarded family about the new world she has seen open before her, Ronnie has not been able to observe her progress, and instead of appearing at a family party to be looked over like a new bull, he sends Beatie a letter of dismissal.

The book made many Americans appreciate their country's economic progress and sold over 40, 000 copies, mostly in the U. S.

" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

Italian Fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile in The Origins and Doctrine of Fascism promoted the concept of conflict as an act of progress, stating that " mankind only progresses through division, and progress is achieved through the clash and victory of one side over another ".

* Technological progress — For over a century, economists have known that capital and labor do not account for all of economic growth.

However, by 1915 this process was complete, enabling Portuguese colonial rule to progress in a relatively unruffled state-until the emergence of nationalist movements all over Africa in the 1950s.

The horror film style has changed over time, but in 1996 Scream set off a " chain of copycats ", leading to a new variety of teenage, horror movies .< ref name = Stack > This new approach to horror films began to gradually earn more and more income as seen in the progress of Scream movies ; the first movie earned six million and the third movie earned one-hundred and one million.

The Afghan nation was able to build democratic structures over the years, and some progress was made in key areas such as governance, economy, health, education, transport, and agriculture.

This theme is also explored in the Doctor Who story The Dæmons in 1971, where the local superstitions around a landmark known as The Devil's Hump prove to be based on reality, as aliens from the planet Dæmos have been affecting man's progress over the millennia and the Hump actually contains a spacecraft.

* 1989 – The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Traditionally earned over four years of full-time study, the student earned either a Bachelor of Arts degree or a Bachelor of Science degree ; on completing undergraduate study, students might progress to either a graduate school or a professional school ( public administration, engineering, business, law, medicine, theology ).

Some cases may be mild and progress very slowly over a normal lifespan, while others produce severe muscle weakness, functional disability, and loss of the ability to walk.

In this case, four different numbers were inserted, with dots between them: the rightmost one is a timestamp of the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, known as the Unix epoch ; to the left of it is the process ID of the program that generated the message ( on servers running Unix or Linux, each process has a number which is unique among the processes in progress at any moment, though they do repeat over time ); to the left of that is a count of the number of messages generated so far by the current process ; and the leftmost number is the number of parts in the current message that have been generated so far.

After the current government of Hamid Karzai took over in late 2001, there has been significant progress toward revitalization of the national military, with two official branches established.

Brain imaging also enables objective, biological insights into mental illness, which can lead to faster diagnosis, more accurate prognosis, and help assess patient progress over time.

As part of the debate over further introduction of OBE into the teaching practice of Western Australia, various groups of concerned citizens and those in the teaching profession formed various single-issue lobby and action groups to progress their viewpoints.

From the town assembly, a national assembly and the progress of commerce sprang Parliament all over Europe around the end of the 12th century but not entirely representative or homogeneous for the nobility and the clergy.

Despite some continued systematic problems, Poland has made a large economic progress over the last decade, and now is ranked 20-th worldwide in terms of the GDP.

Strongly disputing Proudhon's equality-based argument, Bastiat theorizes that, as a result of technological progress and the division of labor, the stock of communal wealth increases over time ; that the hours of work an unskilled laborer expends to buy e. g. 100 liters of wheat decreases over time, thus amounting to " gratis " satisfaction.

They also contribute to the desired effect of converting the ( kinetic energy ) push of the sloped wave face combined with the rider's mass on the sloped wave face ( potential energy ) into redirected energy-lift ( lift ( physics ))-the surfer deflects his surfboard and fins off the water of the wave face ( and / or vice-versa ) to make forward progress across the wave face, or " down the line ," that is, parallel to the wave crest and beach-riding parallel to the crest ( perpendicular to the pull of gravity down the wave's slope ) in this way is known as " trimming.

For most of Nehru's term as prime minister, India would continue to face serious food shortages despite progress and increases in agricultural production.

Moreover, the view that mankind was making slow and steady moral progress came to seem ridiculous in the face of the senseless slaughter.

The optimist is that other face of the scientific experimenter, the man with an unshakable belief in human progress.

The struggles of the Buttonwillow community still persist, and even as the residents make progress, they also face additional setbacks.

The quarterfinals saw the team face off against Brazilian champions Bahia in a rematch of the Brasileirao finals they disputed a few months earlier ; this time, Internacional beat Bahia 1-0 at home and ground out a 0-0 draw to progress to the semifinals and exact revenge on the tricolor de aço.

When doing so, the face cards would represent investment cards, with numbered cards two through ten serving as the expedition progress cards.

This, combined with the much simpler nature of the project — the excavation face was only one twentieth that of the Thames Tunnel — enabled very rapid progress.

# The Department of Homeland Security and its oversight committees should regularly assess the types of threats the country faces to determine ( a ) the adequacy of the government ’ s plans — and the progress against those plans — to protect America ’ s critical infrastructure and ( b ) the readiness of the government to respond to the threats that the United States might face.

From the narrow ridge of Mickledore the northern face of Scafell rises precipitously, an unusually complete barrier to progress along a Lakeland ridge.

Lessig says it best ‘ it is the special duty of policy makers to guarantee that that protection not become a deterrent to progress ’ He specifies that his argument is not about justification of protection of copyrights but the effects of changing the law regarding copyright in the face of the Internet.

At the end of each level, the player must face a stronger boss character in order to progress, requiring much more effort to defeat than a typical foe.

However, once the Uri soldiers arrived at this point, they found themselves face to face with Graubünden and Ticino militia, superior to them in number, who stopped their progress.

Complaints from the Virginia inhabitants about the lack of development progress reached the Commission by 1638 whereupon the second Earl of Fingall, Christopher Plunkett was ordered to submit a substantial bond with the Commission court and to build the church in Virginia or face forfeiture of his county Cavan lands.

When the Americans were able to advance, some two weeks later, there were few reserves left to face them and they made rapid progress until they encountered the German rearguard near the Rhine.

The first several Mysorean outposts surrendered in the face of the large army, and it made steady if slow progress until it reached Darwar in September.

While a lot of progress has been made in achieving FedNor's objectives, communities in Northern and rural Ontario continue to face the ongoing structural challenges that necessitate a stable, long-term regional development effort.

In this miracle of progress, the plow was the unerring prophet, the procuring cause, not by any magic or enchantment, not by incantations or offerings, but instead by the sweat of his face toiling with his hands, man can persuade the heavens to yield their treasures of dew and rain upon the land he has chosen for his dwelling ...

In some instances, protecting against loss of face becomes so central an issue that it swamps the importance of the tangible issues at stake and generates intense conflicts that can impede progress toward agreement and increase substantially the costs of conflict resolution.

Despite the progress, or perhaps even as its consequence, humankind continues to face critical problems: poverty and hunger are yet to be vanquished, nuclear arms are proliferating, environmental disasters are on the rise, social injustice is growing, and so on.