Author: Thomas DUTTON (M.A.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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The Captive Muse; a Collection of Fugitive Poems Written by the Author During His Captivity in France. Interspersed with a Variety of Anecdotes Illustrative of the Cruel Treatment of the British Prisoners of War by the French Government and Its Agents
Author: Thomas DUTTON (M.A.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Captive Muse
Author: Thomas DuttonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Captive Muse
Author: Thomas DuttonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267006939
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Excerpt from The Captive Muse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems, Written by the Author, During His Captivity in France, Interspersed With a Variety of Anecdotes, Illustrative of the Cruel Treatment of the British Prisoners of War, by the French Government, and Its Agents Still less I'll lie in ambush, to surprise, And skulk beneath anonymous disguise In studied mystery involve my name, And, void of fear, shake off all sense of shame Still less, assassin-like, I'll stab my foe, Unseen the hand that deals the murd'rons blow No I boldly write, I'll boldly own, And if I injure, be th' Offender known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1801-1815
Author: Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac DisraeliPublisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. CurranPublisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Short History of French Literature
Author: George SaintsburyPublisher:
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney
Author: Samuel Mcpherson JanneyPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Spain, a Global History
Author: Luis Francisco Martinez MontesPublisher:
ISBN: 9788494938115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.