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...The labyrinths of that mouldering castle echo down the ages, from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” or Henry James’s Bly Manor in his Turn of the Screw to Mark Danielewski’s 2000 novel The...
...At the end of the century, when photographer Horace Warner undertook his dignified and humane portraits of some of the poorest people in London — the residents of Quaker Street, who were defined by Charles...
...Where are the young people asking the Horace Greeleys in what direction to go?...
...Four years after Robert Walpole died in 1745, Horace began constructing a summer retreat by the Thames at Twickenham in west London....
...And there is an up-tempo Horace Silver bossa nova, “Bossallegro”....
...Horace Pippin, an African-American artist who didn’t go to art school, exhibited in 1938 at the Museum of Modern Art and was widely collected and championed (notably by MoMA’s director Alfred H Barr) until...
...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.”...
...The family later sold the estate to Horace Walpole, a descendent of another prominent political family; it became a training centre in the early 1980s....
...As it happens, the word “serendipity” was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754....
...But Strawberry Hill — Horace Walpole’s white Gothic fantasy castle in Twickenham, south-west London, built in the decades after 1747 — has intrigued scholars asking this very question....
...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 was married to Henry’s mother Margaret Beaufort, so Lathom was effectively a royal residence, which Henry and his queen, Elizabeth of York, visited in the summer of 1495....
...During his two sojourns in Italy, Henry Howard, the fourth Earl of Carlisle, bought or commissioned more than 40 views of Venice to ornament Castle Howard....
...In 1941 Time editor Henry Luce proclaimed “the American century”. Some now see this coming to an end as a result of the nation’s economic and political decline....
...In this edition, almost as fascinating as Horace’s lines are some of the collected translators: Milton, Byron, even Elizabeth I....
...The librarian recognised the Wildgoose binding and — after a desperate campaign to raise money through public subscription — managed to fight off the bid of the American collector Henry Folger and acquire...
...Henry James was not big on food. For all his vast literary output, there are very few meals on the page....
...For instance, in the mid-18th century, Horace Walpole described Euston as: “One of the most admired seats in England . . ....
...Guests feasting in the Bacchus-themed dining-room enjoyed the company of Henry Danvers, Earl of Derby, painted by Van Dyck and later saved by the Hermitage curators....
...Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill’, until July 4, V&A, London, tel: +44 (0)20-7942 2000, www.vam.ac.uk...
...His interest in art was possibly sparked when he was a student by his friendship with Henry Aldrich, a keen print buyer who was dean of Christ Church....
...He might have become the Pablo Escobar of his day, had he not met Horace Bixby, a legendary Mississippi pilot....
...Once in the collection of Henry Salt, the British consul-general in Egypt, it was sold by Sotheby’s in 1835 at its first antiquities auction....
...They do not always read well: scholars have often been dismissive of the Henry VI plays, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Titus Andronicus, as audiences never are....
...The Daily Telegraph, based on its own birth announcements, says the top three are William, Thomas, Henry and Alice, Isabella, Olivia....
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