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Há 5 dias · —Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2004. In 1875, Blavatsky began work on a book outlining her Theosophical worldview, much of which would be written during a stay in the Ithaca home of Hiram Corson, a Professor of English Literature at Cornell University. Although she had hoped to call it The Veil of Isis, it would be published as Isis Unveiled. While writing it, Blavatsky claimed to be ...
21 de mai. de 2024 · Bulwer-Lytton was the youngest son of General William Bulwer and Elizabeth Lytton. After leaving the University of Cambridge , he visited Paris and Versailles. Back in England , he met Rosina Doyle Wheeler, an Irish woman, whom he married in 1827.
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10 de mai. de 2024 · The Greek poet Euripides, who died in about 406 BC, is sometimes quoted as writing, “The tongue is mightier than the blade.”. George Whetstone in his Heptameron of Civil Discourses, published in 1582, says, “The dashe of a Pen, is more greeuous then the counterbuse of a Launce.” (The dash of a pen is more grievous than the counter use ...
Há 2 dias · Constance of York: c. 1375 – 1416 1386 Later Countess of Gloucester F20 Elizabeth Courtenay d. 1395 1386 Later Lady de Vere F21 Blanche, Lady Poynings: d. 1409 1386 74 Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel: c. 1346–1397 1387 75 Nicholas Sarnesfeld: d. c.1395 1386–1387 76 Edward of York: 1373–1415 1387 Later Duke of York: F22 The Lady ...
19 de mai. de 2024 · In short: every generation of the Lytton family added something of their own style and taste, making the building a walk through over 500 years of British history. Its most famous resident was Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the Victorian author, dramatist and statesman, who embellished the gardens in a formal Italianate fashion.
Há 4 dias · The whole monument has a panelled plinth; the shaped sarcophagus supports the recumbent effigy of Lady Burghley in long cloak, ruff and French cap; at back on a raised shelf is the similar effigy of Lady Oxford, with unicorn at feet, set in a round-headed recess with coffered soffit, enriched inscription-tablet at back and shields-of-arms in the spandrels; at the head and feet of the first ...
19 de mai. de 2024 · Henry Lytton Bulwer (born February 13, 1801, London—died May 23, 1872, Naples) was a diplomat who, as British ambassador to the United States, negotiated the controversial Clayton–Bulwer Treaty (April 19, 1850), which concerned in part the possibility of a canal traversing Central America and was also intended to resolve (but in ...
