neuroscience
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neuroscience is the study of all aspects of nerves and the nervous system, in health and in disease. It includes the anatomy, physiology, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of nerve cells; the behavioural and psychological features that depend on the function of the nervous system; and the clinical disciplines that deal with them, such as neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry.
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"Aesthetics" and the rise of lyric in the eighteenth century.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...century Britain by such writers as Joseph Warton, Richard Hurd, and Thomas Gray...of those "Lyric Poems" which, Joseph Trapp wrote in 1713, are "of...a view most famously voiced by Joseph Warton in his 1756 Essay on the Genius...
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The Scriblerian sublime.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...but NATURE and PASSION are eternal. --Joseph Warton, An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope (1) Warton's words, which appear in his 1756 attempt...categorization of literary modes employed by Warton and others in the eighteenth-century...
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"A JUST BALANCE BETWEEN PATRONAGE AND THE PRESS": THE CASE OF JAMES THOMSON.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Literary Imagination; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...tutorship and wrote Summer, a Poem, published February 1727, for which (according to Joseph Warton) Millan paid "but little more" than he had for Winter (Warton 121n). The Dedication, though, was much more profitable--the dedicatee, George...
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The mercantile bard: commerce and conflict in Pope.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Literary Imagination; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; During an anecdotal aside in Joseph Warton's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, Dryden is referred...for a prologue (260). The label more fittingly attaches to Warton's main subject. It is still reasonable to think of Pope as...
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Monkey business // Actors seek escape when co-star is ape
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/8/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...escaped without any teeth marks. "Baby's Day Out" (1994), starring Adam and Jacob Warton. Nine-month-old twins Adam Robert and Jacob Joseph Warton spend a day out on the town and they wind up inside a gorilla's cage at the zoo. Did...
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Pope and plagiarism.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...later eighteenth century, especially in the aftermath of Joseph Warton's influential critique, comes to define the nature...counterclaims about plagiaristic practice; and two decades later Joseph Addison felt obliged to defend his Spectator essays from...
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Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...philosophical discourse. Lord Shaftesbury, John Dennis, Joseph Addison, and Edmund Burke were among many who suggested...in it not to be explained, but admired" (56), and Joseph Warton was even bolder when he enthused over "the genuine poet...
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Some additions to the Shenstone Canon. (Essays).
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...realized with the crystallization of the lyric in the 1740s by such poets as Mark Akenside, William Collins, and Joseph Warton, and it is this poem that should be discussed in the context of the "new" poetry. Shenstone's poem rejects the...
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Recent studies in the English renaissance.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...answer to a reviewer's prayer. "Forms of discourse": mainly Shakespeare and Spenser Samuel Johnson, reviewing Joseph Warton's essay on Pope, writes: "He must be much acquainted with literary history, both of remote and late times, who...
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The great Shakespeare fraud: Patricia Pierce tells the tale of William-Henry Ireland, whose teenage angst led him to pull off an unlikely hoax.(Frontline)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Eminent Believers included the clergyman Dr James Parr, who drew up a Certificate of Belief for believers to sign, Dr Joseph Warton who had stated 'Shakespeare's' Profession of (Protestant) Faith to be better than anything in the church service...
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Joseph Warton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joseph Warton 1722-1800, English critic and poet, brother of Thomas Warton. Educated at Winchester and Oxford, he...Ascendancy of Taste: The Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton (1973).
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Warton, Joseph
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Warton, Joseph (1722–1800), brother of Thomas Warton the younger, held various livings and was a conspicuously unsuccessful headmaster of Winchester (1766–93). He is better remembered as a critic of wide knowledge...
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Thomas Warton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Warton 1728-90, English poet and literary...College, Oxford (1747), brother of Joseph Warton. He was ordained and eventually served...Ascendancy of Taste: The Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton (1973).
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Warton, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Warton, Thomas (1728–90), brother of Joseph Warton , was professor of poetry at Oxford (1757–67), and became poet laureate in 1785, an appointment celebrated in the Probationary Odes (see Rolliad ). His many poetic...
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Spence, Joseph
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Spence, Joseph (1699–1768), clergyman, anecdotist, scholar, succeeded T. Warton as professor of poetry at Oxford in 1728. He was a close friend of Pope , and from 1726 collected anecdotes and recorded conversations...
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