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Tag Archives: Thomas Gainsborough
YE OLDE LORDLY PLEASURES: HOW SWEET IT IS
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Earl of Burlington, George Stubbs, John Zoffany, Joseph Wright, Neo-Classical art, Palladio, Spitting Image, Thomas Coltman, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Kent
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ABODES OF DESPAIR
Physically, perhaps emotionally, Matthew Lewis somehow never quite grew up. Small and neat, with pallid, projecting eyes that reminded Sir Walter Scott of those of an insect, he always retained his fragile, boyish air. He was, moreover, so affectionate and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Anne Radcliffe, Antonin Artaud, Byron, Fuseli, George Stubbs, Gothic literature, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, John Raphael Smith, Lord Byron, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew gregory Lewis The Monk, Matthew Lewis, Tate Museum, The Gothic Novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Thomas Gainsborough, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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MARRIED TO TEMPTATION
”Marriage without love, is the Compleatest Misery in life. Besides, I must say, it is to me utterly unlawful, and entails a Curse upon the persons, as being wilfully perjured, invoking the Name of GOD to a falsehood, which is … Continue reading
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SELF RESTRAINT TO SELF INDULGENCE
”If Horace Walpole was right—that the world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel—the English were the most thoughtful people in the world. They were polite and considerate, not pushy or boastful; the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beau Brummel, Beau Nash Bath, Charles Dickens, Duke of Rutland, Emma Hamilton, Fanny Burney, George Cruikshank, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruickshank, Isaac Cruikshank, Lady Emma Hamilton, Lady Huntingdon, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Dartmouth, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Shellabager, Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Gainsborough, Tony Mayer
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