Nicene
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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Nicene pert. to (councils of the Church held at) Nicaea (Gr.
Nīkaia) in Bithynia, esp. of the creed adopted at the first of these (A. D. 325). XV. — late L.
Nīcēnus,
Nicænus.
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'Monk' still lively at 207
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/27/2003; ; 537 words
; ...News Service Sunday, April 27, 2003 The Monk. By Matthew Gregory Lewis. Introduction by Stephen King. Wildside. $37...dreams, there was Ambrosio the Monk, anti-hero of Matthew Lewis' once-infamous Gothic classic. Never heard of...
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"There was no resisting John Canoe": circum-Atlantic transracial performance.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...There was no resisting John Canoe. --MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS, Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the...observers. Anglo-Jamaican planter and playwright Matthew G. Lewis (perhaps best known for helping to create gothic...
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Transatlantic Topographies: Islands, Highlands, Jungles
Magazine article from: The Americas; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...two British writers, R. R. Madden and Matthew Lewis, who were writing about the British islands...different entry from Hudson tout court, as does Lewis, Matthew Gregory, from Lewis, Monk, presumably because the indexer could not...
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Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...century, of Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer and Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk, midcentury of Sheridan LeFanu's tales...Gothic blossoming of Protestant writers such as Maturin, Lewis, and others. Gothic Ireland situates its narrative...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/14/1996; 549 words
; ...conductor, 1885. Deaths: Henry IV of France, assassinated by the religious fanatic Francois Ravaillac 1610; Matthew Gregory Lewis ("Monk Lewis"), novelist and playwright, 1818; August Strindberg, playwright, 1912; James Gordon Bennett, newspaper...
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Sale of historic letters in archive fetches 850,000 pounds
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/13/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...1760. In a different vein, Lord Henry Petty, later third Marquis of Lansdowne, received a playful note from Matthew Gregory Lewis, author of the gothic novel The Monk, demanding a tax on works of the imagination so that bad writers would be...
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Horace in Italy: Discovering a Gothic Imagination
Magazine article from: Gothic Studies; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...choosing exotic continental locations for their novels: Ann Radcliffe favored Italy and the South of France; Matthew Gregory Lewis chose Spain and Germany. In retrospect, Walpole's choice seems so suitable that critics have seldom ventured...
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Sisters and spirits: the postcolonial Gothic in Angelina N Sithebe's Holy Hill.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...a mood of spiritual malaise, madness and psychological terror underlying the rational veneer of civilisation. Matthew Gregory Lewis, for instance, in The Monk (1796) portrays the seduction of a friar by a female demon, and his subsequent...
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The Halloween Read
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail; 10/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...interestingly, not only provided characters but a setting as well from Horace Walpole's A Castle of Otrano to Matthew Gregory Lewis' The Monk. Following their examples a whole parade of writers subsequently did the Gothic thing and novels often...
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The Monk Knight of St. John. Introduction by David Beasley. (Literature).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...widely-accessible version of The Monk Knight of St. John, where a pastiche of Sir Walter Scott collides with Matthew Gregory Lewis, indicates just how bad, how very bad Richardson could be once he had strayed from the Canadian material of Wacousta...
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Matthew Gregory Lewis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Matthew Gregory Lewis The English novelist and playwright Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), known as Monk Lewis, a popular writer during...
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Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818) English author commonly known as "Monk" Lewis. He was born in London July 9, 1775. His father, Matthew Lewis, was deputy secretary of war and...
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Lewis, Matthew Gregory
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775–1818), English novelist...known as ‘Monk’ Lewis from the title of his most famous novel...repertory of the 19th-century toy theatre . Lewis's work, most of which is now forgotten...
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Lewis, M. G.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Lewis, M. G. ( Matthew Gregory Lewis ) (1775–1818), is remembered as the author of The...Gothic novel, from which his nickname ‘Monk’ Lewis was derived. Lewis was greatly influenced by German Romanticism...
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"Tales of Terror"
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...ballads, usually ascribed wrongly to Matthew Gregory Lewis. There are actually two books...published in 1799, included three of Lewis's ballads, together with others...does not appear to be compiled by Lewis. The three ballads later appeared...
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