Maria II
Maria II (Maria da Glória), 1819-53, queen of Portugal (1834-53), daughter of Peter IV ( Pedro I of Brazil). Pedro, having succeeded to the Portuguese throne on the death (1826) of his father, John VI, granted a constitutional charter to the Portuguese and then abdicated in favor of Maria. In order to quiet the claims of her uncle, Dom Miguel , it was arranged that Maria be betrothed to him and placed under his regency. Miguel promised to abide by Pedro's charter, but in 1828, before Maria had arrived in Europe from Brazil, he convened a Cortes, procured an offer of the throne, and set out to rule in absolutist fashion. Maria's father, having abdicated the Brazilian throne, recruited an army from the liberal opponents of Miguel; he also had the assistance of the English. The armed forces gathered and sailed from the Azores to Oporto in 1832. The subsequent fighting in the so-called Miguelist Wars was severe. Miguel capitulated in 1834 after the English had defeated his fleet. Maria's reign was torn by dissension, revolutions, and counterrevolutions. Some progress was made, however, in the building of roads, the first railroad, and schools. Maria married (1836) Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( Ferdinand II of Portugal). She was succeeded by her son Peter V.
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Edmund Waller, English Precieux.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...poetic reputations knows that Edmund Waller is a problem. When he died...poetic taste. Today when Waller is not ignored, he is generally...for example, posited two Wallers, "a minor Renaissance poet...intention were to rehabilitate Waller, I would probably follow a...
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Edmund Waller, Retired Recreation Director, Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/7/1988; 700+ words
; Edmund M. Waller, 83, retired director of welfare and...Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital. Mr. Waller, who lived in Arlington, was born in...Arlington; two sons, retired Navy Capt. Edmund M. Waller Jr. of Vienna and Douglas S...
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Edmund Waller's sacred poems.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; At seventy-nine, Edmund Waller published the slim volume Divine Poems...beautiful women or powerful men. Judging Waller's "poetical devotion" a representative...hemisphere."2 These strictures pay Waller's sacred verses the highest compliment...
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Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller: Seventeenth-Century Praise and Restoration Satire.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; The idea of pairing Marvell and Waller in a study of seventeenthcentury poetics has...assigned the authorship of The First Anniversary to Waller, and we have long appreciated the ways in which Waller's optimistic and idealized celebration of...
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OBITUARIES : Sir John Waller Bt
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/21/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...and Greenwood prizes. John Waller's hand was rarely far away...was my first encounter with Waller. The man I saw was immaculate...socks correct. Clearly Captain Waller had a good batman. Waller was...than his Cavalier poet ancestor Edmund Waller. John Waller's inherited...
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 "Bucks Herald (Aylesbury, England)")
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ALTERNATIVE IDEA FOR WING AND ROWSHAM BYPASSES REVEALED.
Newspaper article from: Bucks Herald (Aylesbury, England); 6/19/2006; 608 words
; ...to open in 2007, to Aylesbury. Edmund Waller, of High Street, Burcott, contacted...map offers a comparison between Mr Waller's route and those chosen by Bucks...performance, said the route proposed by Mr Waller was considered by the Focus Group...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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We're recruiting for the CIA (Church Intelligence Agency); RESTORATION PROJECT: Bid to trace families of original patrons.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 4/10/2006; 646 words
; ...wife Sarah and children. Elizabeth Branson and sisters Eva and Ada. Ernest and Louisa Waller, died 1845 and 1874. Lt Henry Waller, died 1873 Capt Edmund Waller, died 1871. John and Mary Garner, died 1863 and 1880. CAPTION(S): UNDER REPAIR...
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The Almanac.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 3/3/2002; 700+ words
; ...under the sign of Pisces. They include English poet Edmund Waller in 1606; industrialist George Pullman, inventor of...and Belgium were quarantined. A thought for the day: Edmund Waller wrote, "Poets that lasting marble seek / Must come...
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THE ALMANAC
News Wire article from: United Press International; 3/3/2004; 700+ words
; ...under the sign of Pisces. They include English poet Edmund Waller in 1606; industrialist George Pullman, inventor of...nothing came of the report. A thought for the day: Edmund Waller wrote, "Poets that lasting marble seek / Must come...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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PARENTS FIGHT BACK OVER SCHOOL PLACES.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 5/31/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...plus. Samantha Feuillade, whose son Alexander goes to Edmund Waller Primary in New Cross, has been refused places at Addey...children." Carol Seiderer, whose son Jim goes to Edmund Waller Primary School, said: "I think it is unacceptable...
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Edmund Waller
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edmund Waller 1606-87, English poet. He studied at...Charles I against Parliament and conceived "Waller's plot" (1643) to secure the city...the king. The plot was discovered, and Waller was fined and banished. He was pardoned...
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Waller, Edmund
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Waller, Edmund (1606–87). Poet. Waller mixed poetry and politics. Born in Buckinghamshire of a...the reputation of a bold royalist. But when ‘Waller's plot’ to seize London for the king was unmasked...
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Robert Herrick
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...times, when Shakespeare was writing history plays and Edmund Spenser was publishing The Faerie Queene, to the Restoration...and is classified with the neoclassic or Cavalier poets Edmund Waller, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace...
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Behn, Aphra (c. 1640–1689)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Although her literary output remained prodigious, Behn's health failed in the late 1680s; in an elegy to the poet Edmund Waller she presented herself as one "who by Toils of Sickness, am become / Almost as near as thou art to a Tomb." She...
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ROYAL SOCIETY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...x2019;, setting up in 1664 a committee with that end in view. Among its 22 members were the poets John Dryden and Edmund Waller, Bishop Thomas Sprat, and the diarist John Evelyn. However, the committee met only a few times and achieved nothing...
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