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George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840) [1] was an important figure in Regency England, and for many years he was the arbiter of British men's fashion. At one time, he was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV , but after the two quarrelled and Brummell got into debt, he had to take refuge in France.
An idyll (/ ˈ aɪ d ɪ l /, UK also / ˈ ɪ d ɪ l /; from Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidullion) 'short poem'; occasionally spelled idyl in American English) [1] [2] [3] is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια). Unlike Homer, Theocritus did not engage ...
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Beau Brummell is a 1954 British historical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Karl Tunberg , based on the 1890 play Beau Brummell by Clyde Fitch .
Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on Christmas morning, 25 December 1870, [1] by a small ensemble of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich on the stairs of their villa at Tribschen (today part of Lucerne), Switzerland. Cosima ...
A viral screenshot of a tweet shared on Facebook claims Hunter Biden appears in a photograph of President Joe Biden’s 1973 Senate swearing-in ceremony. Verdict: False The claim is false, as the ...
With three weeks left in the 2024 NFL regular season, it seems likely that at least a few records will be broken. Keep an eye on these marks.
the idyll; cemetery poetry (see the Spoon River Anthology); love and death (in Greek, eros and thanatos), love as disease and love as death, (see the character of Dido in Virgil's Aeneid); warlike love (see the work Stanze per la giostra by Giuliano de 'Medici by Angelo Poliziano), love as homage (see the courtly lyric poem), painful love;