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Hace 5 días · Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford (born August 26, 1676, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England—died March 18, 1745, London) was a British statesman (in power 1721–42), generally regarded as the first British prime minister. He deliberately cultivated a frank, hearty manner, but his political subtlety has scarcely been equaled.
- John Plumb
Hace 5 días · His house, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, built and furnished under his close supervision, is a masterpiece of Palladian architecture. To the distress of his son Horace, the famous man of letters, Walpole’s collection of pictures was sold to the empress of Russia by Walpole’s grandson George in 1779.
Hace 6 días · Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. [2] [3] The setting typically includes physical reminders of the past, especially through ruined buildings which stand as proof of a previously thriving world which is decaying in the present. [4]
Hace 3 días · George II, King and Elector. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780300118926; 315pp.; Price: £25.00. A detailed biography of George II in English has been needed for some time. His is one of the longer reigns of an early modern British monarch (1727–60), encompassing both the final military defeat of the Stuart cause in 1745 ...
27 de feb. de 2024 · The house was open to tourists and became widely known in Walpole’s own lifetime. He established a private press on the grounds, where he printed his own works and those of his friends, notably Gray’s Odes of 1757.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 2 días · Louis Philippe fell without either the intrepidity of the royal martyr in 1793, or the dignity of the elder house of Bourbon in 1830; and if it be true, as is generally said, that the Queen urged the King to mount on horseback and die “en roi” in front of the Tuileries, and he declined, preferring to escape in disguise to this country, history must record, with shame, that royalty perished ...
Hace 3 días · This chapter looks at the claims for seeing Coleridge’s narrative poem “Christabel” as being a vampire tale. Looking first at the genesis and origins of the poem, it also recounts in detail the theories of Arthur H. Nethercot, who argued that it was in fact a vampire poem, by deep research into the sources available to the young Coleridge.
