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Hace 5 días · 1925. Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was a British poet, critic and editor. Featured: Sir Richard Francis Burton by Frederic Leighton, ca. 1872-1875. I One hundred years ago, on March 19th, 1821, Sir Richard Burton was born; he died at Trieste on October 19th, 1890, in his seventieth year. He was superstitious; the fact that he was born and that he ...
Hace 1 día · Arabian Nights (2000), a two-part television mini-series adopted for BBC and ABC studios, starring Mili Avital, Dougray Scott, and John Leguizamo, and directed by Steve Barron, is based on the translation by Sir Richard Francis Burton.
- Muhsin S. Mahdi
- 1995
Hace 3 días · Edward Rice (a friend incidentally of Thomas Merton) offers an overview of the importance of the region and the Baganda people in his book Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, a biography of the...
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Hace 19 horas · The titles in these books usually featured some recurrent keywords, such as “antidote”, “purges”, and “pills.” The expression “pills to purge melancholy” had been used in 1596 by the Elizabethan writer, translator, courtier, and inventor of the flush toilet Sir John Harrington in a Rabeleisian passage of the prologue to The Metamorphosis of Ajax, where he explained his ...
Hace 4 días · — This family was descended from Richard Burton, of Chesterfield, a younger brother of Sir William Burton, of Lindley, in Leicestershire, who was slain at Towton-field, in 1461. Francis Burton, of Dronfield, who was sheriff of Derbyshire in 1666 (fn. n4) , married the heiress of Burton, of Lindley: his son Ralph died without issue ...
Hace 4 días · July, 1659 [26 July, 1659.] Names of Commissioners of Militia in England, Wales, and Berwick-on Tweed.. The Parliament of England now assembled, being truly sensible of the great Trust that lies upon them for the preservation and safeguard of the People of this Commonwealth from the malicious attempts and endeavours of the Enemies thereof, and finding a necessity for the enlargement of their ...
