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...Horace Walpole’s Gothick library at Strawberry Hill kicked off a furnishing trend of fussier bookcases and right into the 20th century libraries remained a pivotal part of a grand house....
...Horace Luke, founder of Taiwan e-scooter maker Gogoro, was among those to see the potential of the green transition years ago....
...Meanwhile, Thomas Fairchild, the Hoxton gardener, was one of the first to succeed in cultivating bananas in this country, which caused a flurry of visitors from the City of London beating a path to his plant...
...“We have murdered, deposed, plundered, usurped,” wrote the Whig politician Horace Walpole....
...Four years after Robert Walpole died in 1745, Horace began constructing a summer retreat by the Thames at Twickenham in west London....
...The reformer Horace Mann, who never had more than six weeks of schooling in a year, started the Common School Movement, calling public schools “the greatest discovery made by man”....
...Accompanying him was the stovepipe-hatted Sir Thomas Smythe, a former auditor of the City of London who had made a fortune importing currants from the Greek islands and spices from Aleppo....
...A member of the Faculty of Divinity, Mr Goode cited the Roman poet Horace in conclusion: “Dum loquimur, fugerit invida ætas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.”...
...So complete was this transformation that by 1753, the politician and historian Horace Walpole was able to write that “In gardening the love of Nature prevails....
...As it happens, the word “serendipity” was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754....
...Reeve pursues its legacy through Thomas Barrett’s Lee Priory, in Kent, and William Beckford’s Gothic skyscrapers in Bath and at Fonthill, Wiltshire....
...Its landscape tradition goes back at least to Horace and Virgil, who tended to regard the pastoral and rural as natural and wilderness as supernatural and monstrous....
...Thomas Bromwich, the leading London decorator of the day, supplied many of the wallpapers. These have been faithfully reinstated....
...Born in 1915, he was the son of a chancery barrister, Horace, and a mother, Beatrice, who came from a wealthy butcher’s family....
...He approvingly quotes the Roman poet Horace: “Change only the name and this story is about you.”...
...Dearden’s inheritance must have been the “Thomas Stanley Bed” of c1500, rediscovered 40 years ago, and relatable to Lathom by Thomas Stanley’s heraldry....
...On July 8, Bonhams offers a sheet from the well-documented album of 28 red chalk drawings by the Bolognese master Guercino, acquired by Horace Walpole’s friend John Chaloner Chute during his Italian travels...
...He once told his librarian Thomas James that “Happely some plays may be worthy of the keeping but hardly one in fortie.”...
...In this edition, almost as fascinating as Horace’s lines are some of the collected translators: Milton, Byron, even Elizabeth I....
...Yet in recent years there has also been much debate on the insularity and narrowness of anglophone literature and its readers and writers — a criticism that Nobel judge Horace Engdahl cited in 2008 as one...
...Horace Dediu, independent analyst at Asymco, notes that the iPhone 4 initially went on sale in five countries and the 4S in seven, while the iPhone 5 will launch in nine on September 21....
...group, painted the work speculatively, invented the scenario and “clapped in artists as they came to him, and yet all are easy and natural, most of the likenesses strong”, according to contemporary critic Horace...
...Horace Walpole: “We have given the true model of gardening to the world....
...The actors – I especially admired Thomas Jay Ryan as Oscar and Lynda Gravatt as the black servant Addie – show commitment to Van Hove’s vision....
...The 18th-century painter Thomas Jones described them as “a filthy vaulted room …fitter to adorn the inside of an Egyptian Sepulchre”....
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