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Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

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Some of the better-known composers of this time include Dufay, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and William Byrd ; the glories of Renaissance polyphony were choral, sung by choirs of great skill and distinction all over Europe.

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In 1728, she rediscovered sets of sketches by Leonardo da Vinci and Hans Holbein that had been hidden in a drawer since the reign of William III.

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He had been preceded by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such as William of Rubruck, Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau.

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These include the Franciscan explorers Giovanni da Pian del Carpine in 1245 and William of Rubruck in 1253.

Dr. Ray is a Fellow of the Foundation -- appointed thrice to assist his studies of William Makepeace Thackeray and of H. G. Wells -- and, before his appointment to the Foundation's executive staff, had been given our highest scholarly accolade, appointment to the Advisory Board.

One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

" The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis ( 1850 ) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established.

William Makepeace Thackeray gave Vanity Fair the subtitle A Novel without a Hero.

* In 1850, novelist William Makepeace Thackeray wrote a spoof sequel to Ivanhoe called Rebecca and Rowena.

Never quite losing his Devonshire accent, he was not only an amiable and original conversationalist but a friendly and generous host, so that Fanny Burney recorded in her diary that he had " a suavity of disposition that set everybody at their ease in his society ", and William Makepeace Thackeray believed " of all the polite men of that age, Joshua Reynolds was the finest gentleman.

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In William Makepeace Thackeray's novel ' Vanity Fair ' " Was Rebecca guilty or not?

Victorian Britain, like the periods before it, was interested in literature ( see Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle and William Makepeace Thackeray ), theatre and the arts ( see Aesthetic movement and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ), and music, drama, and opera were widely attended.

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William Makepeace Thackeray publishes Vanity Fair.

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William Makepeace Thackeray (; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863 ) was an English novelist of the 19th century.

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There was a fine miniature portrait of Anne Becher Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray, about age 2, done in Madras by George Chinnery c. 1813.

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