Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Originally, gentleman was the lowest rank of the landed gentry of England, ranking below an esquire and above a yeoman; by definition, the rank of gentleman comprised the younger sons of the younger sons of peers, and the younger sons of a baronet, a knight, and an esquire, in perpetual succession.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. American lawyer and poet (1779–1843) Francis Scott Key Key c. 1825 4th United States Attorney for the District of Columbia In office 1833–1841 President Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren Preceded by Thomas Swann Succeeded by Philip Richard Fendall II Personal details Born (1779-08-01 ...
The Glenriddell Manuscripts is an extensive collection written in holograph by Robert Burns and an amanuensis of his letters, poems and a few songs in two volumes produced for his then friend Captain Robert Riddell, Laird of what is now Friars Carse in the Nith Valley, Dumfries and Galloway. [1]
John Arbuthnot FRS (baptised 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish [1] physician, satirist and polymath in London.He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry ...
As a gentleman switches his cane." —Illustration from the 1830 edition of The Devil's Walk , attributed to Professor Porson "The Devil's Thoughts" is a satirical poem in common metre by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , published in 1799, and expanded by Robert Southey in 1827 and retitled "The Devil's Walk" .
Lovelace's brother, Francis Lovelace (1621–1675), was the second governor of the New York Colony appointed by the Duke of York, later King James II of England. They were also great nephews of both George Sandys [ 7 ] (2 March 1577 – March 1644), an English traveller, colonist and poet; and of Sir Edwin Sandys [ 8 ] (9 December 1561 ...
Kipling in his study in Naulakha ca. 1895 "The Absent-Minded Beggar" is an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and often accompanied by an illustration of a wounded but defiant British soldier, "A Gentleman in Kharki", by Richard Caton Woodville.
"The Twa Corbies", illustration by Arthur Rackham for Some British Ballads "The Three Ravens" (Roud 5, Child 26) is an English folk ballad, printed in the songbook Melismata [1] compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in 1611, but the song is possibly older than that.