Articles related to "Horace"

Brief biography of ancient Roman poet Horace, famous for his finest lyrical poems in Latin, and best known for Odes.

Believing that art education comes from within the soul, Pippin rose from poverty to become one of America's best-known black painters.

In 1860, New England academics and radicals supported a largely unknown Westerner for president. That year, this voting bloc helped Abraham Lincoln win the White House.

Walpole's gothic novel takes lessons from Shakespeare's tragedy.

Two severe storms converged off the coastline of New England, November 26-27, 1898. Despite severe weather warnings, the SS Portland sailed into oblivion, all lost.

Rochester's "Allusion to Horace" and "Imperfect Enjoyment" exemplify the harsh, honest language and explicitly sexual imagery that have earned him both notoriety and fame

The half-way point in a major restoration project at Strawberry Hill House, Walpole's fantasy gothic castle, has been marked by the installation of a gilded weathervane.

One of the most familiar stories from childhood is that of 'Black Beauty'. The story gives an insight into the cruelty endured by many horses in Victorian Britain.

Some years you can view a vivid meteor shower. Other years, the meteor's lightshow is choked out by the brightness of the moon.

The concept of "carpe diem" dates back to the classical Roman poet, Horace, circa 65 B. C., but Robert Frost's speaker begs to differ with the efficacy of that notion.

From the 18th century to the present day, Gothic fiction has fascinated and terrified. This introduction explains the origins of the genre and its popular conventions.

Julian Abele played either the leading role or the valued associate's role in the design of some 250 homes and public buildings for Horace Trumbauer's renowned firm.

New York City is a bunch of small towns - neighborhoods - gathered together. Each has its charms, its unique population, its own raison d'etre. This one has the U.N.

Brief biography of ancient Roman poet Ovid, popular and prolific writer exiled in the Black Sea, and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace.

Named Phillis for the ship that brought her to America, Wheatley for the family that bought her, America's first African American poet has become a symbol of freedom.

Do you have something to say to someone in particular? Great poets from Pindar to Keats conveyed their inspiration in the ode form.

The long-serving barrister Horace Rumpole becomes involved in defending a case under the Terrorism Act: John Mortimer is on typically enjoyable awkward-squad form.

Brief biography of Roman Poet Sextus Propertius, best known for elegies of passionate love. His name is mentioned alongside Horace and Ovid.

Though baseball was not introduced until the late 19th century, it caught on quickly among students. Their enthusiasm for the sport still resonates today.

Readers of early Gothic novels did not expect the history portrayed in them to be accurate. Today's readers expect precision. Why were Gothic readers less demanding?

Otranto is widely acknowledged to be the first gothic novel. The plot devices and storylines of this classic novel would set the stage for Gothic literature to come.

When the sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is released in 2009, the film's cast will feature a few new actors.

Short biography of Alexander Pope, wrote Ode on Solitude before 12, best known for his satirical poems, also translated Homer and Horace

Inspired history of the gospel song 'Beyond the Sunset, O Blissful Morning' and brief biography of hymn-writer Virgil Brock and his wife Blanche, who composed it.

This episode of Lost was all about Sawyer - and his talent for deception.

Male Champion Two-Year-Old Citation raised his stardom to a higher level in the 1948 Kentucky Derby. He showed speed and unshakable will in dominating the Derby.

John Brown's life and fateful attacks against slavery in America inspired works by artists Currier and Ives, Thomas Hovenden, Horace Pippin and Jacob Lawrence.

Massive Attack's former labelmates Alpha took the 'Bristol sound' into new dimensions of drifting, languorous beauty with Comes From Heaven's jazzy, soulful soundscapes

The noted and the notorious lie side-by-side in Brooklyn's venerated burying ground including Leonard Bernstein and Lola Montez, both involved with music.

His idealized landscape paintings - inspired by ancient Greek and Roman ideals - motivated later artists, gardeners, and landscape designers.

Compiled from two of his lectures, this essay appeared in Donald Hall's collection Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-88.

To say that 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' is adequate is apt. It certainly didn't dazzle but it delivered the Potter basics that some fans long waited for.

Masons fought on both sides of the American Civil War, and at times, blue and gray uniforms mingled after the battle smoke had cleared.

Honest Grover Cleveland won the popular vote in three consecutive presidential elections, a feat shared by Andrew Jackson and exceeded only by Franklin Roosevelt

The Giants' owner asked fans why the Giants should be interested in moving to the west coast. He assured them that the team would remain the New York Giants.

Although renominated unanimously, Republicans had strong doubts that Abraham Lincoln would be returned to office given the shift in mood among Northern voters.

In 1872 and 1912, a liberal or progressive faction of the Republican party broke away to organize their own party and nominate a candidate for president.

New shows will explore India's Royal Courts, Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill House, digital art, Grace Kelly's wardrobe, and Serge Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.

This Historian writes from the perspective of the miner, cowboy, the farmer, saloon owner, prostitutes, and anyone else that spent time in the west during its expansion.

Liberal Republicans and Democrats reacted in 1872 to the Credit Mobilier scandal, abuse of the Spoils System, on-going Radical Reconstruction, and federal corruption.

Wilfred Owen's famous war poem describes the agony of war by dramatizing a single scene filled with the misery caused by mustard gas.

As overland travelers visited Utah in the 1850s and 1860s, their reports of the Mormon people became steadily more negative.

When people say "Detroit" in a business context, they're not talking about the city in southeast Michigan. The name long ago became a synonym for the auto industry.

This cycle of 63 poems by A.E. Housman has been continuously in print since it was self-published in 1896.

"Cranberry Thanksgiving" by Wende and Harry Devlin and "The Pilgrims' First Thanskgiving" by Ann McGovern are classic Thanksgiving read aloud books for children.

Elinor Wylie's life attracts more attention than her poems, but some of those poems are worth revisiting.

The much anticipated Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince opens to audiences this July with a continuation of the battles and trials for the Hogwart's wizards.

An outstanding script, along with strong performances and direction, make this off-beat film come alive.

Virginia Woolf, English novelist and essayist, along with fellow hoaxers of the Bloomsbury Group, pulled off a most embarrassing hoax on the crew of "HMS Dreadnought".

The Blaisdells are an old York County, Maine family. These Bible records may help family researchers with their genealogy in a family with many Ebenezers and Elijahs.