drunken Helot
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drunken Helot in allusion to the statement by Plutarch that
Helots were, on certain occasions, forced to appear in a state of drunkenness as an object lesson to Spartan youth.
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Christopher Smart: Clown of God.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Chris Mounsey. Christopher Smart: Clown of God. (The...Mounsey's biography of Christopher Smart makes three extraordinary...madhouse; and third, that Christopher Smart was not mad...paid Author," "Rogue Smarts," and "Smart-Rumps...
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Christopher Smart: Clown of God.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Christopher Smart: Clown of God. By CHRIS MOUNSEY...and two biographies soon followed, Christopher Devlin's Poor Kit Smart (London...and Arthur Sherbo's authoritative Christopher Smart: Scholar of the University...
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Christopher Smart's Old Woman's Oratory and the patent theatres: legitimacy, transgression, and "rational Mirth".
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...and edited by The Lilliputian's editor, Christopher Smart, combines multiple layers of signification...Williamson has noted that "Master Hunter" is Smart's nephew, also named Christopher. (2) The first three riddles in the series...
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Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm fro the Ranters to Christopher Smart.
Magazine article from: Criticism; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart by Clement Hawes. Cambridge: Cambridge University...influences Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno. Hawes persuasively argues that...
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Diagnosing Christopher's case: Smart's readers and the authority of Pentecost
Magazine article from: Renascence; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...find a poet much less well known. Christopher Smart claims for himself and his poems...no force or condition can tame. Smart is no more interested in a productive...experience and the perfect Word of God, Smart insists that all differences are...
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The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart. Volume 5: The Works of Horace Translated into Verse
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 4/1/1997; ; 349 words
; The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart. Volume 5: The Works of Horace Translated into Verse, edited...century English poet has had stranger bouts with fortune than Christopher Smart. Dismissed as a madman during his lifetime, he was rediscovered...
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Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm From the Ranters to Christopher Smart.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/1997; ; 667 words
; ...The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart, Clement Hawes seeks to free mania from the shackles...Swift in Tale of a Tub, and the religious verse of Christopher Smart in the context of seventeenth- and eighteenth...
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Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart.(Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996...versifier, stage actor, and would-be poet-prophet Christopher Smart. Methodologically, Hawes sets himself the task...
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Christopher Smart. (On the Move).
Magazine article from: Florida Bar News; 12/15/2002; 255 words
; Christopher Smart has joined Carlton Fields, with offices located at One Harbour Place, 777 S. Harbour Island Blvd., Tampa 33602, telephone (813)223-7000. He practices in the areas of government law and consulting.
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CLASSICAL: Flute played with gusto; CULTURE In association with The Art Lounge Christopher Morley praises the smartest vocal group in town.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/18/2007; 700+ words
; Byline: Christopher Morley Now here's a claim to fame. Christopher Monks was born in the same Hertfordshire hospital...the set has been designed by Roger Butlin, says Christopher Monks. It is a beautiful set. It's also the first...
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Christopher Smart
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Christopher Smart 1722-71, English poet. A graduate of Cambridge, he lived in London writing poems, editing a humorous magazine, and producing...
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Smart, Christopher
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Smart, Christopher (1722–71) author of Poems...x2018;I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else.’; He is remembered...grouped in threes, fives, and sevens. Smart also published in these later years translations...
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William Collins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...announced in the Odes. He made literary friendships with James Thomson and with lesser writers such as John Home and Christopher Smart. His most personal poem, the Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson (1749), was the last of his works published...
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Milland, Ray
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Lawson); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (Leisen) (as Bob Miller); The Jungle Princess (Thiele) (as Christopher Powell); Three Smart Girls (Koster) (as Lord Michael Stuart) 1937 Bulldog Drummond Escapes (Hogan) (title role); Wings...
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Reeve, Christopher
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...of Gravity, 1976; founded Christopher Reeve Foundation, 1996...Association in 1999 to become the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation...10019, U.S.A. Address: Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation...Count Vronsky) 1987 Street Smart (Schatzberg) (as Jonathan...
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