Rule, Britannia!
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Rule, Britannia! Song by
Arne to words by James Thomson, f.p. in masque
Alfred at Maidenhead, 1 Aug. 1740. Handel quoted it 6 years later in his
Occasional Oratorio. Beethoven introduced it into his
Battle Sym. (
Wellington's Victory) and wrote 5 pf. variations in D on it (pubd. 1804). Wagner wrote an ov. based on it (1837). It has been suggested that it is the ‘hidden theme’ behind Elgar's
Enigma Variations (Elgar quoted it in
The Music Makers).
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Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-Century Germany.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...has reconstructed the career of Johann Joseph Gassner (1729-77...controversy drew in many famous figures. Johann Kaspar Lavater hoped to find demonstrable proof...reality. The Neologist theologian Johann Salomo Semler of Halle, a sceptical...
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Deutsche Spataufklarung und Pietismus: Ihr Verhaltnis im Rahmen Kirchlich-Burgerlicher Reform bei Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822).
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Kirchlich-Burgerlicher Reform bei Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822...preacher, publisher, and writer Johann Ludwig Ewald. By focusing intensely...in part through his contact with Johann Kaspar Lavater, Philipp Matthaus Hahn, and J...
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Here's looking at you.
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...cultivated Swiss theologian, Johann Kaspar Lavater, published the first of his elaborately...referred to as the Fragmente). Lavater, who collected portraits, decided...no one laughed, least of all Lavater's publishers. By 1810, the...
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The Impatient Muse: Germany and the Sturm und Drang. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Ironically Leidner claims to discover a similar tendency to glide over ideological assumptions in Johann Kaspar Lavater. He argues that "Lavater wants his audience to skip over the premises on which his often unspoken conclusions rest," and...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/11/1996; 394 words
; ...Louis- Antoine de Bougainville, navigator, 1729; Johann Kaspar Lavater, founder of physiognomics, 1741; Feodor Mikhailovich...Clair (Chomette), film director, 1898. Deaths: Johann Zoffany (Zauffely), painter, 1810; Soren Aabye...
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Recent studies in the nineteenth century.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...William Blake's Marginalia focuses on Blake's annotations to the works of Bishop Berkeley, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Johann Kaspar Lavater, and Emanuel Swedenborg, less to interpret them than to register "his experience of the control that typograp
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Today in History - Jan. 2
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/2/2007; 649 words
; ...humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to give grandly can ask nobly and with boldness." - Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologian (1741-1801).
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Saturday, May 14
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/7/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...1973--) Thought For Today: Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity _ Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologian (1741-1801). Copyright 2005, AP News All Rights Reserved
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Wednesday, May 14
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...1973--) Thought For Today: Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity _ Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologian (1741-1801).
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Almanac
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 1/2/2003; ; 549 words
; ...humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to give grandly can ask nobly and with boldness." - Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologian (1741-1801). Copyright 2000 by Telegraph Herald, All rights Reserved.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Johann Kaspar Lavater , 1741-1801, Swiss theologian and mystic. He wrote several books on metaphysics, but he is chiefly remembered for his work on physiognomy, the art of determining character from facial characteristics.
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Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich (1740-1817)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...born on September 12, 1740, as Johann Heinrich Jung, was best known...the tragic fate of Swiss writer Johann Kaspar Lavater, who was shot by a soldier in...April 2, 1817. Sources: Jung, Johann Heinrich. Heinrich Stilling...
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Henry Fuseli
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...fervor. Henry Fuseli was born Johann Heinrich Füssli (in...first sermon. He was a friend of Johann Kaspar Lavater, whose Aphorisms on Man he later...became the favorite disciple of Johann Jakob Bodmer, who in 1740 had...
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caricature
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...B. Della Porter ( De Humana Physiognomia , 1586); Charles Le Brun ( Expression des Passions , 1698); and Johann Kaspar Lavater ( Physiognomische Fragmente , 1775). Le Brun's work described, via a mixture of simple sketches and rather...
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