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The sailor's eye.(Gaston Liebert)
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September 1, 2006|
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On a pleasant day in May 1888, Midshipman Gaston Liebert sat on the deck of the French steam sloop of war the Vire, then at anchor in Tubua Bay, Raiatea, in the French Polynesian archipelago. Looking north, he drew a panorama of the harbor, including the coasting schooner tied up to a ramshackle wharf, the nestled buildings of a research station, other vessels moored nearby, and the island of Tahaa on the horizon (Fig. 3). During the previous three years, Liebert had served as a cadet aboard the naval school frigate Iphigenie before being assigned as a midshipman to the Vire. ...
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Bard news . . . we have the English to thank for Burns Criticism from south of the Border stung poet to write more political work, claims a leading academic
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...collection was compiled by Englishman Joseph Ritson, who celebrated colloquial culture...detestation of the aristocracy. In Ritson's introduction to the volume...revolutionary leanings. But Mee argues that Ritson's book provoked him to take more...
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Is there a minstrel in the house?: domestic entertainment in late medieval England.(Report)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly
; ...the appearance of Percy's essay, Joseph Ritson angrily attacked many of Percy...often humble, even disreputable. Ritson admitted that French minstrels may...original positions taken up by Percy and Ritson. On the one side are those who see...
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Victorian Sources of Fairy Tales: (1) A Collection of Researches.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Folklore
; ...to beliefs about fairies. Indeed Ritson, Mac Ritchie, and Halliwell deal...reprinted here is the English antiquary, Joseph Ritson (1752-1803). He is perhaps best...of Katharine Briggs on fairies. Ritson's selection of "fairy tales...
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PAGE LAYOUT AND TEXTUAL AUTONOMY IN HARLEY MS 2253 `LENTEN YS COME WIP LOVE TO TOUNE'.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...poem `Lenten ys come' was first printed as item VII in Joseph Ritson's Ancient Songs from the Time of King Henry Third to...was followed by `Wynter wakenep al my care' (which Ritson rifles `A ditty upon the uncertainty of this life...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Call to look again at poet Burns.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...January 25. Prof Mee says it was the English antiquarian Joseph Ritson who told Burns he ought to be more political. Prof Mee...Jacobite song in a collection of writings compiled by Ritson which gave Burns the idea for one of his most radical...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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This joke is not dead; ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...entitled A New Song, Made On Alice Marley, An Alewife At ****, Near Chester was collected by Joseph Ritson for The Bishoprick Garland (1784). Ritson himself later identified Alice/Elsie as the popular landlady of The Swan pub in Picktree...
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Old jokes are the best.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...entitled A New Song, Made On Alice Marley, An Alewife At ****, Near Chester was collected by Joseph Ritson for The Bishoprick Garland (1784). Ritson himself later identified Alice/Elsie as the popular landlady of The Swan pub in Picktree...
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This joke is not dead; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...entitled A New Song, Made On Alice Marley, An Alewife At ****, Near Chester was collected by Joseph Ritson for The Bishoprick Garland (1784). Ritson himself later identified Alice/Elsie as the popular landlady of The Swan pub in Picktree...
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"Poor Percy Bishe!!" Charles Lamb's "A Dissertation on Roast Pig" in context.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; ...cookery came to Lamb, directly or indirectly, from Joseph Ritson's Abstinence from Animal Food (1802), a classic...vegetarian work that was a source also for Shelley's essay. Ritson's tale allowed Lamb to turn the vegetarian's horror...
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 "Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)")
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School day is world class!(News)
Newspaper article from: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
; ...Cole Fox, right, in his Jamaica dress, has mum Tracy to help him learn about foreign cultures; GLOBE TROTTERS: Joseph Ritson, right, in his Australian hat, above, Cameron Wood and Teddy Pearson, centre, try some French food with Charlotte...
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