Horace

Standard Name: Horace

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death Valentine Ackland
VA and Sylvia Townsend Warner are buried together in the churchyard of the East Chaldon Church.
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora.
247
The stone reads Non omnis moriar,
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
301
an epitaph that VA chose.
The Latin phrase is...
Textual Features Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Original poems (sonnets, songs, ballads, occasional pieces) as well as more translations (from Latin, represented by Horace , as well as from Italian) occupy the latter part of volume two. Many of the occasional poems...
Textual Production Jane Brereton
JB published her first free-standing poem, as a Lady: The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace , Imitated: and apply'd to the King.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
78
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Publishing Frances Brooke
FB dated the dedication of Emily Montague, to Guy Carleton , Governor of Québec, on 22 March 1769.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
105
The novel was published in four volumes, Brooke having spun it out from three to...
Intertextuality and Influence Dorothea Primrose Campbell
DPC was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace on her title-page, Pope to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer , Shakespeare , Goldsmith ...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
She also contributed an English version of an ode by Horace (ode fifteen of the first book) to The Works of Horace, in English Verse. By Several Hands, 1757, whose mastermind was William Duncombe .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Chandler
MC was said to have loved poetry from her childhood. She admired George Herbert , and Horace in English translation, because of their freedom from heroic or military sentiment.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Collier
Distinct from other contents of the book are complete texts by JC , transcribed and dated: a commentary on Horace ' Ars Poetica, November 1749; Sallys & Jennys Emblem (1754) concerning the Cry (discussed...
Family and Intimate relationships Ivy Compton-Burnett
Jourdain had published a translation of Horace 's Odes in 1904 and the important History of English Secular Embroidery in 1910: in the latter year she also published almost sixty articles on a wide variety...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
QEI made verse translations from Horace and Plutarch .
Elizabeth I, Queen. The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I. Editor Bradner, Leicester, Brown University Press.
46, 51
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Hamilton
EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...
Textual Production Nina Hamnett
She dedicated it to Claude Mounsey , with one quotation from the Latin poet Horace and one from George Du Maurier 's Trilby.
Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate.
prelims
Advertising began in early August, calling the work a further...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth B. Lester
This title-page quotes from Horace , Lyttelton , and Addison . The first tale, Genius (told partly in letters), fills volume one, and the second, Enthusiasm, volumes two and three. Both attributes are presented...
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
This seems to be the first of four poems which her daughter preserved, dating from this year and shortly afterwards. The others are versions of odes by Anacreon and Horace , and a dream vision...
Textual Features Judith Cowper Madan
The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?
Concanen, Matthew, editor. The Flower-Piece. Walthoe.
130
JCM calls on the...

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18 June 1744: John Newbery advertised his Little Pretty...

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18 June 1744

John Newbery advertised his Little Pretty Pocket Book, one of the first books aimed at delighting children while instructing them.

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