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Tag Archives: Sir Robert Walpole
the great estates: country life
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England… …The great age of building came to France in the sixteenth century, the time when many of the fabulous chateaux of the Loire were built, creating a tradition of palatial architecture which, modified and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cholmondeley Family, Christopher Wren, England Hanoverian kings, Georgian England, Horace Walpole, Houghton Hall England, Inigo Jones, John Wootton painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, the Four Georges, William Hogarth
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something about them
A French noble’s view. However grand the English country houses seemed to Anglo-Saxon eyes, they made quite a different impression on a noble visitor from the Continent. The Comte de Mirabeau, who traveled to London in 1784, left this account … Continue reading
search for a less than humble abode
Parliament voted a king’s ransom to that the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley could have a home, a palace, a mansion, fit for his status as savior of the British empire. And after Waterloo that sum increased further. Yet house … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Harriette Wilson courtesan, John Soane architect, Mr. Clarke Jervoise, Robert Smirke, Sir Robert Walpole, Stratfield Saye, The Duke of Wellington, William Beckford, William Hazlitt, William Sadler
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house hunting troubles?
The Duke of Wellington’s search for a palace. So you think you’re having house hunting troubles? Then consider the woes of Britain’s greatest hero. All he wanted was a little place in the country to stretch out… The public of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Duke of Wellington, George Cruikshank, John Soane, Lord Egremont, Lord Radnor, Luton Hoo Lady Salisbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquess of Bute, Mr. Clarke Jervoise, Robert Smirke, Sir George Bowyer, Sir Robert Walpole, Wellington Congress of Vienna, William Heath
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swift sparks of low heeled boys
A master satirist, Jonathan Swift was something of a misanthrope. An amiable one, but one who detested mankind. Still, undaunted, he wrote in a stubborn hope that people could be stung, stabbed, and whipped into better sense. Three-hundred years later, … Continue reading
the horse has already vaulted
The unfettered experience. Its the zipper, stupid. But, does promiscuity necessarily involve forms of immorality? Is there a value in promiscuity if it is located in the pursuit of ideals? .Promiscuity in a Western context seems to have a negative … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony weiner, charles colson, D.H. Lawrence, David Frum, elsworth baker, Hilary Clinton, Jefferson Airplane, Jonathan Kay, Kenneth Rexroth, larry flynt, larry flynt one nation under sex, Marie Antoinette, Martin Buber, michael bayles, michael walzer, paul langford, Philip Roth, political pornography, Sir Robert Walpole, Wilhelm Reich, William James
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subtle slavery: transmsission of property and commodity
Sir Robert Walpole, England’s eighteenth-century prime minister, lived in great splendor, In 1733, his household consumed over a thousand bottles of white Lisbon wine, merely one variety among the scores in the cellar. Every week oysters came in by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Annie Lennox, Betty Friedan, Beverly Knight, Brett Ratner, Duncan Quinn, International Women's Day, Jean Kilbourne, Jean Leon Gerome, Jimmy Choo, John Berger, Lady Gaga, Molly Sims, Monica Ali, Quincy Jones, Samuel Pepys, Sir Robert Walpole
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PREOCCUPIED WITH GOODNESS: Almost Forgivable Appetites For Life
Tom Jones was perpetually in delicate situations. As Henry Fielding remarked in one of his digressions,” It is not enough that your designs, nay, that your actions are intrinsically good; you must take care that they appear so.” Tom was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Daniel Defoe, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Ian Hislop, James Gillray, John Collet, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Oliver Goldsmith, Rev. John Trusler, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Sally Feldman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Simon Varey, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gray, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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AGREEABLE NEGLIGENCE: PLEASURE REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCE
There was a time when landed gentry were able to lead a life of extraordinary privilege and freedom. It was the era of the lordly pleasures. Secure in their wealth, confident of their position, indulged by their countrymen, the aristocrats … Continue reading
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Tagged Capability Brown, Earl Bathurst, Earl of Burlington, Earl of Orford, George Walpole, Georgian England, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Horace Walpole, John Zoffany, Joseph Addison, Lord Bathurst, Lord Rokeby, Pompeo Batoni, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gainsborough, William Kent
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