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The duel described in the text is between a gingham dog and a calico cat, with a Chinese plate and an old Dutch clock as very unwilling witnesses, whom the poem's narrator credits for having described the events to him. The dueling animals, explains the narrator, eventually eat each other up and thus are both destroyed, causing the duel to end ...
Richard Johnson (c. 1573 – c. 1659) was a British romance writer. All that is known of his biography is from internal evidence in his works: he was a London apprentice in the 1590s, and a freeman after 1600.
The Duel (also known as The Point of Honor: A Military Tale) by Joseph Conrad: Two officers of Napoleon's army fight a number of duels over many years. The story was transferred to the screen in 1977 by Ridley Scott as The Duellists. The Duel, a philosophic novella by Anton Chekhov; War and Peace: Pierre and Dolokhov duel.
In 1893, Johnson published what some consider his greatest work, "Dark Angel". During his lifetime, he published: The Art of Thomas Hardy (1894), Poems (1895), and Ireland and Other Poems (1897). Johnson was a member of the Rhymers' Club, and cousin to Olivia Shakespear (who dedicated her novel The False Laurel to him).
The Duel; The Duel, a 1971 Hong Kong film; The Duel, a 2000 Chinese Lunar New Year's wuxia film directed by Andrew Lau; The Duel; The Duel "The Duel" (How I Met Your Mother), a 2005 episode of How I Met Your Mother "The Duel" , a 2009 episode of The Office "The Duel" (Star Wars: Visions)
A print caricaturing the duel by William Heath. The Duke appointed his old comrade Sir Henry Hardinge as his second while Lord Falmouth acted for Winchilsea. [8] John Robert Hume, the military surgeon who had served with Wellington in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, was in attendance.
Savage's first certain work was a poem satirizing Bishop Hoadly, entitled The Convocation, or The Battle of Pamphlets (1717), which he afterwards tried to suppress. He adapted from a Spanish comedy, Love in a Veil, [5] (acted 1718, printed 1719), which gained him the friendship of Sir Richard Steele, who became his first patron, and of Robert Wilks.
The volume consisted of 271 poems, none of which had ever been printed before. Songs and Sonettes was the first of the poetic anthologies that became popular by the end of the 16th century, and is considered to be Tottel's 'great contribution to English letters', [ 2 ] as well as the first to be printed for the pleasure of the common reader. [ 3 ]