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  Ambrose Philips - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philips was a staunch Whig, and a friend of Richard Steele and Joseph Addison.
Philips is said to have threatened to hit Pope with a rod he kept hung up at Button's coffee house for the purpose.
Philips had been made justice of the peace for Westminster, and in 1717 a commissioner for the lottery, and when Boulter was made Archbishop of Armagh, Philips accompanied him as secretary.
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 Ambrose Philips - LoveToKnow 1911
Philips was a stanch Whig, and a friend of Steele and Addison.
Philips is said to have threatened to cane Pope with a rod he kept hung up at Button's coffee-house for the purpose.
He sat in the Irish parliament for Co. Armagh, was secretary to the lord chancellor in 1726, and in 1733 became a judge of the prerogative court.
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 §14. Ambrose Philips and his "Pastorals;" His “Namby-Pamby” poems. VI. Lesser Verse Writers. Vol. 9. ...
A native of the midlands, Ambrose Philips (born in 1675) was educated at Shrewsbury and St. John’s college, Cambridge (1693–6), of which he was fellow from 1699 to 1708.
The satire stung, as was intended, and Philips bought a rod and hung it up at a popular coffee-house (Button’s) in order to carry out his threatened chastisement of Pope in public.
Many critics have pronounced these sweetmeats delightful, though cloying; and, it must be granted, in spite of ridicule, that Philips had a genuine sensibility and a kindness for the elder music in English poetry which is to his credit and which his age, for the most part, ignored.
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 John Philips - LoveToKnow 1911
JOHN PHILIPS (1676-1708), English poet and man of letters, son of Dr Stephen Philips, archdeacon of Shropshire, was born at his father's vicarage at Bampton, Oxfordshire, on the 30th of December 1676.
Philips was happier in burlesquing his favourite author than in genuine imitation of a heroic theme.
Philips died at Hereford on the,5th of February 1708/9.
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 Namby Pamby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philips had written a series of odes in a new prosody of seven syllable lines and dedicated it to "all ages and characters, from Walpole sterrer of the realm, to miss Pulteney in the nursery." This 3.5' line was a matter of consternation for more conservative poets, and a matter of mirth for Carey.
Philips was a figure who had become politically active and was a darling of the Whig party.
Alexander Pope had criticized Philips repeatedly (in The Guardian and in his Peri Bathos, among other places), and praising or condemning Philips was a political as much as poetic matter in the 1720's.
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Ambrose Philips, poet, was born in Shropshire and educated at Cambridge.
Pope was annoyed and in retaliation published a scathing satire on Philips' work in The Guardian, thereby ruining his reputation as a poet.
In 1714 Philips was made a justice of the peace for Westminster.
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Ambrose Philips and Rowe were born in 1671 and 1673, and Isaac Watts in 1674.
With this inauguration of Philips his rival Pope was not much delighted; he therefore drew a comparison of Philips's performance with his own, in which, with an unexampled and unequalled artifice of irony, though he has himself always the advantage, he gives the preference to Philips.
Knowing Philips to be slenderly supported, he took him to Ireland as partaker of his fortune, and, making him his secretary, added such preferments as enabled him to represent the county of Armagh in the Irish Parliament.
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 Italian Pastoral Opera and Pastoral Politics in England, 1705-1712
In this debate, Ambrose Philips’ pastorals represented the Rational pastoral theory, and Alexander Pope’s pastorals were Neoclassical.
Philips and Tickell’s omission of any Italian Renaissance intermediaries, most notably Tasso and Guarini, is not an accident.
Ambrose Philips, "Pastorals," in The Poems of Ambrose Philips, ed.
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 Ambrose Philips
It was at Pope's request that Gay burlesqued Philips's pastorals in his Shepherds Week, but the parody pleased by the very qualify of simplicity which it was intended to ridicule.
Samuel Johnson describes the relations between Pope and Philips as a "perpetual reciprocation of malevolence." Pope lost no opportunity of scoffing at Philips, who figured in the Bathos and the Dunciad, as Macer in the Characters; and in the "Instructions to a porter how to find Mr.
In T. Ward's English Poets, however, he is represented by two of the simple and charming pieces addressed to the infant children of Lord Carteret and of Daniel Pulteney.
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 Weird Words: Namby-pamby
We owe this word to a very public literary spat between the poets Alexander Pope and Ambrose Philips at the start of the eighteenth century.
Philips is now virtually unknown and rarely read, and even his best known lines, from a poem called A Winter-Piece, describing the rigours of the Danish winter, which was printed in The Tatler in 1709 (“There solid billows of enormous size, / Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise”), are merely competent.
It’s odd to think it was largely because of the poetic diatribes against Philips by Carey and Pope that Philips is remembered today.
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 FINCH, Ambrose M.
Among the class of citizens referred to is Ambrose M. Finch, who came here in 1845, and since that time, with the exception of four years, has been closely connected with the agricultural development of the county.
Ambrose Finch was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, March 28, 1817.
On attaining his majority he moved to Pennsylvania, and was there united in marriage with Sarah Philips, a native of that State and of German ancestry.
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 namby-pamby - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
, a satire on the poetry of Ambrose Philips (1674-1749) by Henry Carey (1687?-1743).]
We are being very literary when we call someone a namby-pamby, a word derived from the name of Ambrose Philips, a little-known 18th-century poet whose verse incurred the sharp ridicule of his contemporaries Alexander Pope and Henry Carey.
In poking fun at some children's verse written by Philips, Carey used the nickname Namby Pamby: "So the Nurses get by Heart Namby Pamby's Little Rhimes." Pope then used the name in the 1733 edition of his satirical epic The Dunciad.
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John, after some preliminary training at home, was sent to Winchester, where he distinguished himself by diligence and good-nature, and enjoyed two great luxuries,--the reading of Milton, and the having his head combed by some one while he sat still and in rapture for hours together.
In 1703, Philips produced 'The Splendid Shilling,' which proved a hit, and seems to have diverted his aspirations from the domains of Aesculapius to those of Apollo.
Philip's poem, too, is the first of the kind; and surely we should be thankful to the author of the earliest effort in a style which has created so much innocent amusement.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ambrose, Saint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ambrose, Saint AMBROSE, SAINT [Ambrose, Saint], 340?-397, bishop of Milan, Doctor of the Church, b.
Saint SAINT [Saint] For canonized and uncanonized saints, see under the proper name, e.g., Ambrose, Saint.
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 American Literature: Poetry - MSN Encarta
Anne Bradstreet looked to British poets Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser; Edward Taylor looked to poets George Herbert and John Donne.
Puritans used these poems to explore the nature of the self, reading the character of the dead person as a text and seeing the life as a collection of hidden meanings.
Colonial poets of the 18th century still looked to British poets of their time, such as Alexander Pope and Ambrose Philips.
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 Sir Ambrose Heal ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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 Literary Encyclopedia: The Shepherd's Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Tickell particularly praised the pastoral poems of Ambrose Philips (1674-1749), but almost totally neglected those of Gay’s friend, Alexander Pope (1688-1744), which had been published at the same time: in Tonson’s Miscellany, Volume VI, May 1709, where Philips’s pastorals opened, and Pope’s closed, the volume.
Philips was furious when he discovered the identity of the author and reputedly kept a birch at Button’s with which to beat Pope should he ever dare to enter.
He saw an opportunity for a piece of literary fun that would enable him to get even with Philips for threatening Pope and exploited it for all he was worth.
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 AllRefer.com - Ambrose Philips (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Ambrose Philips (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 Philips, Ambrose - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
His nickname "Namby-Pamby" was given to him by Henry Carey because of the cloying sentimentality of his poems in praise of childhood.
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 PHILIPS, JOHN (1676-1708) - Online Information article about PHILIPS, JOHN (1676-1708)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
PHILIPS, JOHN (1676-1708) - Online Information article about PHILIPS, JOHN (1676-1708)
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Philips was happier in burlesquing his favourite author than in genuine See also:
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 Ambrose - OneLook Dictionary Search
Ambrose : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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 Idioms-Namby-Pamby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
'Namby-Pamby' was a nickname for Ambrose Philips, who penned dainty pastoral verse in the first half of the eightennth century.
Pope who had written some poems in a similar vein, was a harsh critic of Philips verse, maintaining that his own was far superior, so that literary society of the day was divided in its allegiance.
When Philips produced a poem written for the infant daughter of Lord Carteret which was particularly sentimental, it sent critics scurrying for their pens.
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 Student Conference at University of Toronto
As a whole, the day displayed an appealing slice of the musical scholarship among the university's graduate students.
Tim Neufeldt opened the day with his "Corydon or Colinet: Competing theories of pastoral in early eighteenth-century England." He brought the audience smoothly into the world of Ambrose Philips' and Alexander Pope's pastorals, quoting both from their works and from contemporary writings on the genre.
Projected text and graphics further focused the talk, making the relatively unfamiliar subject matter not only accessible but engaging.
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 Chapter Nab <i>to</i> Namouna of N by Brewer's Readers Handbook
So Henry Carey called the lines of Ambrose Philips (on the infant child of lord Carteret).
N.B.—This is not John Philips, who wrote the Splendid Shilling.
To tell one’s name to an enemy about to challenge you to combat was deemed by the ancient Scotch heroes a mark of cowardice; because, if the predecessors of the combatants had shown hospitality, no combat could ensue.
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 Etymology/usage/grammar of namby-pamby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
What hyphenated word meaning "weakly sentimental" was coined to describe the poetry of Ambrose Philips?
The word was coined from the name of the poet Ambrose Philips (died 1749), who wrote yuckily sentimental pastoral poetry that was ridiculed by fellow poets Henry Carey and Alexander Pope.
Note that this poem was such a successful demolition of Philips that Carey himself became known as
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 English 259: Pope, Swift, and their Circle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Because the age of Swift and Pope, the so-called “Augustan Age,” saw the mingling of brilliant men of letters with astute political wheeler-dealers, the reading will include a number of authors, familiar with each other, who are of historical as well as literary interest.
Besides the verse and prose of Swift and Pope, we shall read the elegant essayist Joseph Addison (also Under-Secretary of State); the journalist, novelist, and spy Daniel Defoe; the dashing diplomat and poet Matthew Prior; the mawkish Ambrose Philips; and the true originator of the womanizing Macheath, John Gay.
These writers will help to define for us the Augustan Age as a period of obliquity and ambivalence, coarseness and urbanity, raillery and rage.
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 Blake, Philips, Evans and Thornton (1912) William Blake's illustrations to Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil in Ambrose ...
Blake, Philips, Evans and Thornton (1912) William Blake's illustrations to Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil in Ambrose Phillips' [sic] imitation of Virgil's first eclogue, 1821: Enlarged fac-similes in platinotype from the scarce original edition
William Blake's illustrations to Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil in Ambrose Phillips' [sic] imitation of Virgil's first eclogue, 1821: Enlarged fac-similes in platinotype from the scarce original edition
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 Sappho fr. 2, The Ode to Anactoria, from Wharton
Sappho, fragment 2 (Bergk), The Ode to Anactoria, or To a Woman from Wharton's Sappho, with versions by H.
Gladstone, Burton, Ambrose Philips, Smollett, John Herman Merivale, J.
That man seems to me peer of gods, who sits in thy presence, and hears close to him thy sweet speech and lovely laughter; that indeed makes my heart flutter in my bosom.
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 New Catholic Dictionary: The Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He began a crusade among the French schools and soon gathered sufficient funds to enable the first group of Sisters of Charity to set out for China, where the first refuge was established, 1845.
During a second period of exile, spent in England with the Leicestershire family of Ambrose Philips De Lisle, at Grace Dieu Manor, he started the first branch of the society outside of France.
Soon after it spread to Ireland, Scotland, and the British Colonies, and is now world-wide.
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