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  Henry James Pye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry James Pye (February 20, 1745 – August 11, 1813) was an English poet.
Pye was Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death.
Pye was born in London and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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 Pye, John David - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pye, John David   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Pye was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and studied at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and London University.
In 1971 Pye calculated the resonant frequencies of the drops of water in fog and found that these frequencies coincided with the spectrum of frequencies used by bats for echolocation.
Pye also found that ultrasound seems to be important in the social behaviour of rodents and insects.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pye,+John+David   (211 words)

  
 English Poets Laureate: Henry Pye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The British poet, Henry James Pye, was born in London on February 20, 1745.
In 1790, Pye was made poet laureate as a reward for his faithful support of William Pitt the Younger in the House of Commons.
Henry James Pye was also the first poet to receive a fixed salary of 27 instead of the historic tierce of Canary wine.
www.mala.bc.ca /~lanes/english/laureate/pye.htm   (390 words)

  
 §24. Henry James Pye. V. Lesser Poets, 1790–1837. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of ...
The most interesting groups which the subject of this chapter offers have been noticed; but, before we come to individuals, some of whom, also, are interesting, one or two other batches of minor bards may be dealt with.
Pye, though a convenient butt for the usual anti-laureate jokes, was, in fact, not so much a bad poet as no poet at all.
As a prose writer, Pye was far from contemptible.
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 Henry James Pye --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The British poet laureate from 1790 to 1813 was Henry James Pye.
Pye was born on Feb. 20, 1745, in London, England.
Born in Rockford, Ill., James Henry Breasted studied at Yale and Berlin before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1894.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9333950   (725 words)

  
 Pye (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pye Records, a British record label once known as Pye Nixa Records, its subsidiaries and successors:
William George Pye, founder of Pye of Cambridge
Mr Pye is a 1953 novel by Mervyn Peake.
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 Pye Coat of Arms
The ancient Normans that arrived in England following the Conquest of 1066 are the initial ancestors from which the many generations of the Pye family have grown.
The name Pye was given to a member of the family who was a talkative or thieving person.
Such a person was so named for a fancied resemblance to the magpie, a common bird in England at the time that was known for such characteristics.
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 Henry James --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
James was born on April 15, 1843, in New York City, the younger brother of William James.
His fundamental theme was the innocence and exuberance of the New World in clash with the corruption and wisdom of the Old, as illustrated in such works as Daisy Miller (1879), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), and The Ambassadors (1903).
American philosophical theologian, the father of the novelist Henry James and the philosopher William James.
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 The Mediadrome - Words   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
King James was married to a sister of Henry, and there was supposed to be a treat of friendship between the two countries.
Henry James Montagu, the third son, inherited, in 1790, the estates of his maternal grandfather, and became Lord Montagu.
Pye had been appointed in 1790, largely because of his political services to William Pitt the Younger – his appointment was looked on as ridiculous, and the intention had been for his successor to be a first-class and highly-regarded poet.
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 Chapter Psalmanazar <i>to</i> Pye of P by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
He is believed to have been a native of France or Switzerland, but represented himself as a native of the island of Formosa, and palmed off a Formosan language of his own construction, to which he afterwards added a description of the island.
Pye, Henry James (1745-1813).—A country gentleman of Berkshire, who published Poems on Various Subjects and Alfred, an Epic, translated the Poetics of Aristotle, and was Poet Laureate from 1790.
In the last capacity he wrote official poems of ludicrous dulness, and was generally a jest and a byword in literary circles.
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On the 11th the Dutch troops had entered London, and James, having commanded the gallant Lord Craven, who was prepared to defend the palace to the utmost, to draw off the guard which he commanded, escaped himself in a boat from the water-entrance of the palace at three o'clock in the morning.
John Kay was laureate in the reign of King Edward the Fourth; Andrew Bernard in that of King Henry the Seventh; John Skelton in that of King Henry the Eighth, and Edmund Spenser in that of Queen Elizabeth.
King Henry the Sixth and Queen Margaret were waiting in York for news of the event of that fatal battle,--which, in its effect, made them exiles, and bore to supremacy the rightful standard of the White Rose.
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 Aesthetics: Sources in the Eighteenth Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James Boswell had been given an opportunity by Wallace’s son, George Wallace, to read the first portion of the book.
James Usher (1720—72) changed the spelling of his surname from ‘Ussher’ on his marriage to Jane Fitsimons, a Catholic, and he converted to Catholicism in the 1750s.
James Moor (1712—1779) was Professor of Greek and later vice-Rector of Glasgow University.
www.thoemmes.com /aesthetics/source18_intro.htm   (6979 words)

  
 Poet Laureate -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James I essentially created the position as it is known today for Ben Jonson in 1617, although Jonson's appointment does not seem to have been formally made.
In 1488 Skelton joined the court of Henry VII, tutored Henry VIII and was the official royal poet for most of the next 40 years.
Master Henry was Versificator Regis, or King's Poet employed by Henry III (according to Thomas Warton)
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Poet_Laureate   (1416 words)

  
 Poets Laureate of Great Britain.
The winner is one of: Colley Cibber, Laurence Eusden, Henry James Pye, and William Whitehead.
Before Pye's appointment, the Sovereign or the Lord Chamberlain (a member of the Royal Household) awarded the Poet Laureateship directly.
A fierce, sometimes ferocious, poet of the natural and the mythological worlds, of "the struggle in the soil as well as in the soul" [Levin in Verses of the Poets Laureate].
www.baymoon.com /~ariadne/poets/poets.laureate.britain.htm   (1832 words)

  
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Henry, Speaker of the House of Commons Arden, John, Esq.
Chatham, Earl of Calthorpe, Sir Henry Gough, Bart.
The practice of transporting criminals to America is said to have commenced in the reign of James I; the year 1619 being the memorable epoch of its origin: but that destination is first expressly mentioned in 18 Car.
www.gutenberg.org /files/15100/15100.txt   (16727 words)

  
 SULAIR: British Poetry of the Romantic Period Catalog -- Miller to Young
902 MILLER (James) St. Baldred of the Bass, a Pictish legend; the Siege of Berwick, a tragedy; with other poems and ballads, founded on the local traditions of East Lothian and Berwickshire.
By the Rev. Henry Hart Milman, M.A., Prebendary of Westminster; Minister of St. Margaret's and late Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford.
London: James Nisbet, Berners Street; sold also by Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly; Seeley and Son, Fleet Street; W. Oliphant, and Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh; Chalmers and Collins, Glasgow; and R.M. Tims, Dublin.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/ablit/britlit/mill2young.html   (10123 words)

  
 The Poetry Archives @eMule.com :: General Discussion :: Henry James Pye (1745-1813)
Could there be any more appropriate salute than this, taken from his epic work Alfred, to Henry Pye (1745-1813), perhaps the worst of all our distinguished poets laureate, and certainly the only one ever to have published a work called Summary Of The Duties Of A Justice Of The Peace Out Of Sessions.
Henry James Pye was a captain in the Berks
Despite the poor quality of my transcription and Henry's original work (he was far too fond of apostrophes, and flowery terms and occasionally seems to have lost the plot completely, meandering off mid-thought and never returning to the subject, I wonder if this ought to go somewhere where people could consult it.
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 August 11 - Simple English Wikipedia
1794 - James Barton Longacre - engraver and designer of United States Indian Head cent (d.
1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b.
1890 - John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Cardinal (b.
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 Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume I. Great Britain and I, by Various   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Henry the Third, a prince of epical fancies as Corffe, Conway, Beaumaris and many other fine poems in stone attest, not only spent much of his money in adding to its beauty and strength,...
Henry of Richmond kept his royal state in the Tower, receiving his ambassadors, counting his angels, making presents to his bride, Elizabeth of York.  Among other gifts to that lady on her nuptial day was a Royal Book of verse, composed by a prisoner in the keep.
On the following day the king was led away from St. James’s to the scaffold.  His faithful friends, Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, the Duke of Hamilton, and Lord Capel were afterward imprisoned in the palace and suffered like their master.
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 Index of Authors & Topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
An account of the life and writings of James Beattie (1806); biography and letters of Beattie, many of which discuss his opposition to Hume and the composition of the Essay (1770).
James Oswald, Appeal (1766—1772); James Beattie, “Castle of Scepticism” (1767); James Beattie, Essay (1770); Joseph Priestley, Institutes (1772—1774); Joseph Priestley Examination (1774); Thomas Hepburn, Specimen (1774); Thomas Ludlam, Logical Tracts (1805?); Dugald Stewart, Letter to William Forbes (c.
William Wishart, “A specimen” (1745); Henry Home, Lord Kames, Essays (1751); James Balfour, Delineation (1753); Philip Doddridge, A course of lectures (1763); Thomas Reid, Essays on the active powers (1788); Thomas Reid, “An Examination” (1793); Dugald Stewart, Outlines of moral philosophy (1793); Dugald Stewart, Philosophy of the active and moral powers (1828).
www.thoemmes.com /18cphil/hume_index.htm   (10538 words)

  
 Nursery Rhymes
King James I was laughed at for the favour he showed to many poor Scotsmen who accompanied him to London.
A tradition states that the original Mother Hubbard was housekeeper at the house of the future brother-in-law of the composer of the rhyme.
When Henry James Pye was appointed Poet Laureate in 1790, his first ode, a very poor one, was in honour of King George III's birthday.
www.innvista.com /society/government/britain/rhymes.htm   (1235 words)

  
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The LYRIC, from the reign of Laureate TATE, 1693, to the demise of Laureate PYE, 1813:-- NAHUM TATE, 1693-1714 NICHOLAS ROWE, 1714-1718 LAURENCE EUSDEN, 1719-1730 COLLEY CIBBER, 1730-1757 WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, 1758-1785 THOMAS WARTON, 1785-1790 HENRY JAMES PYE, 1790-1813 IV.
But in the gayeties of the court of the Stuarts arose occasion for the continuous and profitable employment of a court-poet, and there was enough thrift in the king to see the advantage of securing the service for a certain small annuity, rather than by the payment of large sums as presents for occasional labors.
Sir Robert Pye, an ancestor of that Laureate Pye whom we shall discuss by-and-by, was the paymaster, and often and again was the overwrought poet obliged to raise "A woful cry To Sir Robert Pye," before some small instalment of long arrearages could be procured.
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 English Poetry, Second Edition Bibliography: P
Pye, Henry James, 1745-1813, Leonora from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher.
Pye, Henry James, 1745-1813, Naucratia; or naval dominion.
Pye, Henry James, 1745-1813, Verses on several subjects, written in the vicinity of Stoke Park, in the summer and autumn of 1801.
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 ENGLISH POETRY: P Bibliographic Entries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Or a poeme vpon the birth, and InHonor of the Hopefull yong Prince Henrie Frederick,First-Sonne and Heire apparant to the most ExcellentPrinces, Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine, And the Mirrour ofLadies, Princesse Elizabeth, his Wife, only daughter to ourSoueraigne Iames King of Great Brittaine, andc.
With Sir Henrie Lea, his resignation of honour at Tylt, to her Maiestie, and receiued by the right honourable, the Earle of Cumberland
Title:A Commemoration of the life and death of the RightWorshipfull and vertuous Ladie; Dame Helen Branch (late Wife tothe Right worshipfull Sir Iohn Branch Knight, sometime Lord Maiorof the famous Citie of London): by whose godly and virtuous life,Virgines are insinuated to virtue, wiues to faithfulnes, andwiddowes to Christian contemplation, and charitable deuotion,andc.
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 Anti Jacobin Novels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Henry James Pye, The Democrat (1796); Henry James Pye, The Aristocrat (1799)
Reflecting a merry sort of anti-sans culottism, Pye’s novel, The Democrat, satirizes French participation in the American struggle for independence.
Pye’s sarcasms, though restrained, make abundantly clear that, as far as he is concerned, the most remarkable characteristic of the French and American revolutionaries is their gullibility in the presence of false prophets.
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 New Bibliography of Additional War Poems - British War Poetry in the Romantic Age 1793-1815 - Electronic Editions - ...
Paine, Author of 'The Rights of Man,' on the intended Celebration of the Downfall of the French Empire, by a set of British Democrates, on the 14th of July." Peter Pindar.
Inscribed to the Honourable Charles James Fox." UNKNOWN.
Percy, on her liberal present of flannel waistcoats to the Droomore Corps of 106 Yeoman." A Yeoman.
www.rc.umd.edu /editions/warpoetry/supp_bibliography.html   (6392 words)

  
 ALA | EALS-WEB BIBLIONOTES SPRING 1997
A search for "henry james" results in one work by Henry James Byron and eighty-five by Henry James Pye.
A search for "james, henry" results in 185 works by Henry James Leigh Hunt and five by the master himself.
Berlin, James A. Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cul- tures: Refiguring College English Studies.
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 Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, v1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A good leading thread of literary research might be profitably followed by the student who should trace the footsteps of all the poets, dead and gone, that have held, in England, the office of laureate.
There, in a vault beneath the church, was buried the bewitching, generous Nell Gwynn; there is the grave of James Smith, joint author with his brother Horace,—who was buried at Tunbridge Wells,—of “The Rejected Addresses”; there rests Richard Yates, the original “Sir Oliver Surface”; and there were laid the ashes of the romantic Mrs.
King Henry the Sixth and Queen Margaret were waiting in York for news of the event of that fatal battle,—which, in its effect, made them exiles, and bore to supremacy the rightful standard of the White Rose.
www.blackmask.com /thatway/books149c/famaut.htm   (19424 words)

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