Joseph Addison - Joseph Addison Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English politician and writer. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. Addison was born in Milston, Wiltshire, his father being dean of the cathedral city of Lichfield. He was educated at Charterhouse School, where he first met Steele, and at Queen's College, Oxford. He excelled in classics, and became a Fellow of Magdalen. In 1693, he addressed a poem to John Dryden, the former poet laureate, and his first major work, a book about the lives of English poets, was published in 1694, and his translation of Vergil's Georgics in the same year. In 1699, he began training for the diplomatic service, and travelled widely in.
Lancelot Addison - Lancelot Addison Rev. Lancelot Addison (1632 - April 20, 1703) was born in Westmorland. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. Rev. Addison worked at Tangier as a chaplin for seven years and upon his return he wrote "West Barbary, or a Short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fex and Morocco" (1671). In 1670 he was appointed royal chaplin, in 1683 Dean of Lichfield, and in 1684 Archdeacon of Conventry. Among his other works was "The Present State of the Jews" (1675). He died in 1703 leaving three sons, Joseph Addison (poet), Lancelot Addison (who was an eminent scholar) and Gulston Addison (Governor of Madras). Rev. Addison was buried in in Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire..
Knights of the Garter (after 1899) - Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1931) Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytotn, 2nd Earl of Lytton (1933) James Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope (1934) Charles Alfred Worlsey Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough (1935) King Leopold III of the Belgians (1935) Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI (1936) George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon (1937) Bernard Marmaduke Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (1937) William Thomas Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter (1937) Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father-in-law of King George VI (1937) Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort (1937) Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Prime Minister, Chancellor of Cambridge University (1937) King George II of Greece (1938) King Carol II of Romania (1938) Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia.
Jean de la Bruyère - Bruyère's introduction to the great orator. Bossuet, who from the date of his own preceptorship of the Dauphin, was a kind of agent-general for tutorships in the royal family, introduced him in 1684 to the household of the great Condé, to whose grandson Henri-Jules de Bourbon as well as to that prince's girl-bride Mlle de Nantes, one of Louis XIV's natural children, La Bruyère became tutor. The rest of his life was passed in the household of the prince or else at court, and he seems to have profited by the inclination which all the Condé family had for the society of men of letters. Very little is known of the events of this part--or, indeed, of any part--of his life. The impression derived from the few notices of him is.
Henry Sacheverell - his wife, and was sent to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1689. He was a student there until 1701 and a fellow from 1701 to 1713. Joseph Addison, another native of Wiltshire, had entered the same college two years earlier; he later dedicated to Sacheverell his work on English poets (1694). Sacheverell took his degree of B.A. in 1693, and became M.A. in 1695 and D.D. in 1708. His first preferment was the small vicarage of Cannock in Staffordshire; but he came to fame when preacher at St Saviour's, Southwark. His famous sermons on the church in danger from the neglect of the Whig ministry to keep guard over its interests were preached, the one at Derby on August 15, the other at St Paul's Cathedral on November 5 1709. They were.
Hobson's choice - that is no choice at all. The first written reference to the source of the phrase is in Joseph Addison's paper, The Spectator (14 October 1712). It also appears in Thomas Ward's poem England's Reformation written in 1688, but not published until after his death. Ward writes, Where to elect there is but one, 'tis Hobson's choice -- take that or none. The phrase originates from Thomas Hobson (1544-1630), who lived in Cambridge, England. Hobson was a stable manager who rented out horses to undergraduate students. After students began requesting for particular horses again and again, Hobson realized certain horses were being overworked. He decided to go in for a rotation system placing the well-rested horses near the stable door, and refused to let out any horse except in its proper.
Gettysburg Union Order of Battle - Edward Pye 147th New York: Ltc Francis C. Miller, Maj George Harney 56th Pennsylvania (9 companies): Col J. William Hofmann - rowspan=2 Second Division: BG John C. Robinson 1st Brigade: BG Gabriel R. Paul Col Samuel H. Leonard Col Adrian R. Root Col Richard Coulter Col Peter Lyle Col Richard Coulter 16th Maine: Col Charles W. Tilden, Maj Archibald D. Leavitt 13th Massachusetts: Col Samuel H. Leonard, Ltc N. Walter Batchelder 94th New York: Col Adrian R. Root, Maj Samuel A. Moffett 104th New York: Col Gilbert G. Prey 107th Pennsylvania: Ltc James MacThomson, Capt Emanuel D. Roath - 2nd Brigade: BG Henry Baxter 12th Massachusetts: Col James L. Bates, Ltc David Allen, Jr 83rd New York (9th Militia): Ltc Joseph A. Moesch.
Fiction set in Ancient Rome - Davis. The SPQR series by John Maddox Roberts. The Germanicus Mosaic (series) by Rosemary Rowe - set in Roman Britain. The Claudia series by Marilyn Todd Movies The Robe U.S. 1953 director Henry Koster Demetrius and the Gladiators U.S. 1954 director Delmer Daves (sequel to 'The Robe') Ben-Hur U.S. 1959 Spartacus U.S. 1960 director Stanley Kubrick Cleopatra U.S. 1963 director Joseph L. Mankiewicz The Fall of the Roman Empire U.S. 1964 durector Anthony Mann Satyricon Italy 1970 director Federico Fellini I, Claudius U.K. 1976, BBC 13 hour miniseries Gladiator U.S. 1999 director Ridley Scott Plays Joseph Addison Cato William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Television comedy Up Pompeii.
Edward Young - took his degree of D.C.L. in 1719. His first publication was an Epistle to ... Lord Lansdoune (1713). It was followed by a Poem on the Last Day (1713), dedicated to Queen Anne; The Force of Religion: or Vanquished Love (1714), a poem on the execution of Lady Jane Grey and her husband, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury; and an epistle to Joseph Addison, On the late Queen's Death and His Majesty's Accession to the Throne (1714), in which he rushed to praise the new king. The fulsome style of the dedications jars with the pious tone of the poems, and they are omitted from his own edition of his works. About this time he came into contact with Philip, Duke of Wharton, whom he accompanied to Dublin in 1717..
1672 - Royal Declaration of Indulgence. June 28 - William III of Orange appointed Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht. Births June 9 - Peter, Emperor of Russia Joseph Addison - English politician Ludovico Antonio Muratori - Italian historian and scholar Deaths November 6 - Heinrich Schütz, composer Denis Gaultier - French lutenist and composer. Simon Dezhnev - Russian Cossack navigator.\n.
1719 - Saxe-Gotha, later Princess of Wales. Deaths January 12 - John Flamsteed, astronomer November 8 - Michel Rolle, mathematician Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter Joseph Addison - english politian\n.
1700s in literature - and Plays 1700 : The Way of the World by William Congreve 1702 : The Shortest Way with the Dissenters by Daniel Defoe 1703 : Hymn to the Pillory by Daniel Defoe 1704 : The Campaign by Joseph Addison; Miscellany Poems by William Wycherley 1705 : The Mistake by Sir John Vanbrugh; The Gamester by Susannah Centlivre 1706 : The Recruiting Officer (play) - George Farquhar 1707 : Essay Concerning the Use of Reason - Anthony Collins; ''The Beaux' Stratagem - George Farquhar Births April 22, 1707 : Henry Fielding 1709 : Samuel Johnson Deaths May 1, 1700 : John Dryden May 26, 1703 : Samuel Pepys 1706 : John Evelyn.
1711 in literature - contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths Events The Spectator founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele New Books An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope Births Deaths.
1713 in literature - 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths Events New Books Cato (play) - Joseph Addison Clavis Universalis - Arthur Collier Poems on Several Occasions - Henry Carey Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous - George Berkley Rural Sports - John Gay Births April 12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal - French writer Laurence Sterne - an Irish-born novelist Jonathan Toup - English classical scholar and critic Deaths.
1910 in music - Herman Paley "Any Little Girl That's A Nice Little Girl Is The Right Little Girl for Me" w. Thomas J. Gray m. Fred Fisher "Back To My Old Home Town" w.m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth "A Banjo Song" by Howard Weeden "The Big Bass Viol" w.m. M. T. Bohannon "Bring Back My Lena To Me" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder "By The Saskatchewan" w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon" w.m. Irving Berlin "Caprice Viennois" m. Fritz Kreisler "The Chanticleer Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Albert Gumble "The Chicken Reel" m. Joseph M. Daly "Come Josephine In My Flying Machine" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher "Come To The Ball" w. Adrian Ross m. Lionel Monckton "Constantly" w. Chris Smith m. James.
Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Holiday Jack Otterson - Mad About Music Cedric Gibbons - Marie Antoinette Charles D. Hall - Merrily We Live 1939 Lyle Wheeler - Gone With the Wind Hans Dreier, Robert Odell - Beau Geste Charles D. Hall - Captain Fury Jack Otterson, Martin Obzina - First Love Van Nest Polglase, Al Herman - Love Affair John Victor Mackay - Man of Conquest Lionel Banks - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Anton Grot - The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex William Darling, George Dudley - The Rains Came Alexander Toluboff - Stagecoach Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning - The Wizard of Oz James Basevi - Wuthering Heights With the awards for 1940 the award was divided into separate awards for black-and-white and color movies. 1940 Black-and-white Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse -.
Ambrose Philips - He worked for Jacob Tonson the bookseller, and his Pastorals opened the sixth volume of Tonson's Miscellanies (1709), which also contained the pastorals of Alexander Pope. Philips was a staunch Whig, and a friend of Richard Steele and Joseph Addison. In Nos. 22, 23, 30 and 32 (1713) of The Guardian he was rashly praised as the only worthy successor to Edmund Spenser. The writer, probably Thomas Tickell, pointedly ignored Pope's pastorals. In The Spectator Addison applauded Philips for his simplicity, and for having written English eclogues unencumbered by the machinery of classical mythology. Pope's jealousy resulted in an anonymous contribution to the Guardian (No. 40), in which he drew an ironical comparison between his own and Philips's pastorals, censuring himself and praising Philips's worst passages. Philips is said to have.
Antoine François Prévost - left England for Holland, where he began to publish (Utrecht, 1730) a romance, the material of which, at least, had been gathered in London Le Philosophe anglois, ou Histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwell, écrite par lui-mesme, et traduite de l'anglois (Paris 1731-1739, 8 vols., but most of the existing sets are partly Paris and partly Utrecht). A spurious fifth volume (Utrecht, 1734) contained attacks on the Jesuits, and an English translation of the whole appeared in 1734. Meanwhile, during his residence at the Hague, he engaged on a translation of De Thou's Historia, and, relying on the popularity of his first book, published at Amsterdam a Suite in three volumes, forming volumes v, vi, and vii of the original Mémoires et aventures d’un homme de qualité. The seventh.
The Spectator - Spectator was also the title of a daily publication of 1711-14, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele..
Cato - Porcius Cato, the Younger, (1st century BC), his great-grandson, Julius Caesar enemy Cato is also a 18th century play by Joseph Addison, based upon the life of Cato the Younger. In this dramatic text, Cato is portraied as a hero, fighting for liberty against the tyranny of Julius Caesar. The play is reported to be one of George Washington favourite literature, perhaps because of the fight of the Americans against the oppresion of the English..
