Tag Archives: William Hazlitt

malthus: whimsey for the sullen men of property

Malthus. The theory that, essentially, the poor should not reproduce as they strain the food supply, which will be outdistanced, inevitably by population growth, leading to that final leg of human misery: famine, starvation and death. Alas, the flesh being … Continue reading

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service before show

The travails and perils of finding a home. In the case of the Duke of Wellington, it took on palatial magnitude. Poor chap. All he really wanted was a little place in the country to relax and hunt. But to … Continue reading

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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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house hunters

The Duke of Wellington’s prospects seemed pretty flat. The greatest war hero in English history, the Wonder of Waterloo could not dind a ducal home and the money was there from the Parliament. Lots of it, to create “a lasting … Continue reading

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layton & those wild peculiar joys

Quite a mixed bag in looking at Irving Lyton on his 100th birthday. Not everything was gold, but there was in sum, a spiritual consciousness with the man, a leaving to the control of the instinct as sign of his … Continue reading

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w. blake: the quack doctors of painting

The Royal Academy. The real power of the Royal Academy lay in its early days, and the driving force behind its consolidation was not primarily intellectual or social at all. It related to the machinery of distribution and sale. High … Continue reading

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george stubbs tears: putting a good face upon trade

The jockey with his invincibly English face is from a canvas by George Stubbs ( 1724-1806 ) who is so well known for his portraits of horses as to obscure the fact that he painted their owners and handlers with … Continue reading

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swallowing man and myth: presence of the green truth

The infiltration of Andelysian luxuriance into Roman severity marks nature’s triumph in Nicolas Poussin’s ultimate works of 1658-1664. As action had once been reduced to immobility, so now it is absorbed by nature’s serenity. Time is swallowed by space, history … Continue reading

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poussin: transposing the poets’s world

Just as it abstracts the figures in the foreground, Nicolas Poussin’s geometry opens up nature in the background. The narrow dramatic stage now gives way to a landscape so vast that, it appears it  would take more than a day … Continue reading

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zep tepi, poussin and geometrical coincidence

Is Google the ultimate Time Travel? If you read the following do so at your own risk….good grief …Zep Tepi is the ancient method of Zero Point Alchemy, activating the vacuum dynamics within the Vortex of Creation (Black Hole of … Continue reading

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