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	§7. Richard Payne Knight; Erasmus Darwin. II. Political Writers and Speakers. Vol. 11. The Period of the French ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was a time when the genuine muse had retired to her “interlunar cave,” and massive didactic poems enjoyed a transitory reign.
		Two authors of note took the lead, Richard Payne Knight and Erasmus Darwin.
		Knight’s Progress of Civil Society was pompous and humourless; Darwin’s machine-turned couplets glittered with a profusion of inappropriate poetical trappings.
	www.bartleby.com /221/0207.html (319 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: Sir Richard Payne Knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Knight was born at Wormsley Grange in Herefordshire to a parson, Thomas Knight, and his servant girl, Ursula Nash.
		Knight theorized that such a viewpoint was, indeed, that expressed in the sexual imagery and symbolism of the ancients-- elements of which have survived and can still be seen even in the sacred art and architecture of modern times.
		Knight's extensive collection of ancient coins, medals, stone carvings and bronzes is now in the British Museum, of which he served as Trustee.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/knight.htm (568 words)

	Librar10
		Knight wasn't addressing the relatively narrow issue of garden improvements; he was attempting to construct a full-fledged theory of taste, in the tradition of Gerard, Allison, Shaftesbury, and (ultimately) Kant.
		Overall, Knight set out to answer the question "Is there a standard of taste?" And his attempt incorporated many of the intellectual currents of his time, among them associationism, subjectivism, and theories of the operations of the mind.
		Knight concluded that we can't hope to enumerate or analyze the objects in nature that are picturesque.
	faculty.uccb.ns.ca /philosophy/arcadia/librar10.htm (1911 words)

	Richard Payne Knight -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Payne Knight (15 February 1750 - 23 April 1824) was a Classical scholar and (An expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts) connoisseur best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient (additional info and facts about phallic) phallic imagery.
		He was born at Wormesley Grange in (additional info and facts about Herefordshire) Herefordshire, (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) UK, and was educated at home, but toured Italy and the continent from 1867 for several years.
		The central claim of The Worship of Priapus was that an international religious impulse to worship ‘the generative principle’ was articulated through genital imagery, and that this imagery has persisted into the modern age.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_payne_knight.htm (892 words)

	Architecture, Landscape and Liberty - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Payne Knight (1751—1824) was a distinguished connoisseur and critic who played a very significant role in the cultural life of his day.
		This study traces for the first time the way in which Knight’s thought worked across the whole range of his interests, piecing together a coherent philosophical position, based on the sensibly regulated pursuit of pleasure, which, as the nineteenth century advanced, was increasingly out of step with the tenor of the times.
		Knight’s ideas were given concrete expression in his writings and verses, of which his Analytic Inquiry into the Principles of Taste was the most influential.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521462002&print=y (165 words)

	knight
		Originally, knights were warriors on horse-back, but the title became increasingly connected to nobility and social status, most likely because of the cost of equipping oneself in the cavalry.
		In theory, knighthood could be bestowed on a man by any knight, but it was generally considered honorable to be dubbed knight by the hand of a monarch.
		Knights were eligible to wear a white belt and golden spurs as signs of their status.
	www.fact-library.com /knight.html (472 words)

	The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races - Sex Worship
		Richard Payne Knight[3] quotes a passage from Captain Cook's voyages to one of the Southern Pacific Islands.
		Richard Payne Knight has pointed out that they occur almost entirely on national coins and emblems, and so were the expression of an established belief.
		Richard Payne Knight tells us that Pan was worshipped by the Shepherds under the form of the tall fir, and Bacchus "by sticking up the rude trunk of a tree." It is shown throughout these pages that sexual attributes were worshipped under both these deities.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/phil/psychology/TheSexWorshipAndSymbolismOfPrimitiveRaces/chap1.html (5356 words)

	Richard Payne Knight - a biography from the landscape architecture and Gardens Guide
		: Richard Payne Knight was a connoisseur, author and owner/designer of Downton Castle, between 1774 and 1778.
		Richard Payne Knight was the grandson of an ironmaster and the son of a clergyman.
		Richard Payne Knight wrote a Poem, The Landscape (1794) in which he mocked the 'smooth' style of Lancelot Brown.
	www.gardenvisit.com /b/knight.htm (204 words)

	Fragment of a cornelian breccia cameo, 'The Head of Flora', carved by Benedetto Pistrucci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824), the renowned connoisseur and collector, purchased the 'Flora' cameo in London around 1812 from an Italian dealer, believing it to be ancient.
		Disbelieving this claim, Payne Knight challenged Pistrucci to make a copy in order to prove who was correct.
		The ensuing publicity and controversy earned Pistrucci several commissions: Payne Knight himself purchased a head of Augustus from Pistrucci, also in The British Museum's collection, which he praised in the highest terms.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ586 (330 words)

	Marble portrait bust of Richard Payne Knight by John Bacon the Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) was a renowned philologist, numismatist (coin expert) and collector.
		He was a member of the Society of Dilettanti, one of the founding members of the British Institution, and was appointed to the committee to superintend the monuments of St Paul's Cathedral in London.
		Payne Knight played an active part in the acquisition of Charles Townley's collection of classical marbles by the nation, and in 1814 was appointed a Trustee of the British Museum, representing the Townley family.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ3933 (305 words)

	NYPL, James Gillray
		Gillray’s portrait of Richard Payne Knight, a collector and “self-appointed arbiter of taste,” was never translated into a print.
		Richard Godfrey describes Knight in this drawing as holding an “‘Antique Terminus’ his thumb buttressing the figure’s erect member, which he observes with enthusiasm through a magnifying glass.” Godfrey suggests that the drawing was prompted by an attack on Knight’s essay Discourse on the Worship of Priapus.
		Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Whig politician, orator, and proprietor of the Drury Lane Theatre, charged the Pic-Nics with “licentious and immoral behavior,” while others were appalled by “orgies” led by “the unblushing matrons of fashion.” Still other critics railed against the extravagance of the productions, particularly their displays of lavish costumes and jewelry.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/gillray/part7.html (3015 words)

	Tate Britain \| Past Exhibitions \| James Gillray: The Art of Caricature
		This pair of images represents Richard Payne Knight, who was a collector and writer particularly known for his book called The Worship of Priapus, 1768, about the god of fertility, whose symbol was the phallus.
		The print on the right is a reproduction of an especially flattering portrait of Payne Knight by the portrait painter, Thomas Lawrence.
		It shows Payne Knight as a goofy, ugly man with an interest in the subject matter of his research which was more prurient than academic.
	www.tate.org.uk /britain/exhibitions/gillray/quiz.htm (829 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.09.12
		A typical emendation by Payne Knight, accepted by West, is teon for to son (mss) at I 185, on the analogy of teon at I 138; also at I 207 (in this case, both teon and to son are attested as manuscript variants).
		Such is the problem with the efforts of Payne Knight (and West) in emending Homeric phrases into a state of conformity with a pre-existing article-free phase of their existence.
		Payne Knight is the man who told Elgin about the Acropolis Marbles: "You have lost your labour, my Lord Elgin.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-09-12.html (13507 words)

	Downton Castle, Hereford or Shropshire England - Castle Quest
		Downton Castle is a castleatted mansion built by Richard Payne Knight between 1774 1nd 1778.
		Knight, the grandson of an ironmaster and a clergyman was fasinated by gardens and biult the place for his own tastes in naturalist landscaping.
		It is located 5 miles west of Ludlow (thus it's often listed as being in Shropshire although it is in Herefordshire), south of the A4113.
	www.castlesontheweb.com /quest/Forum1/HTML/000048.html (444 words)

	Dragon's Hoard - THE GREAT GOD PAN
		Payne Knight says that the Lycaean Pan of Arcadia is Pan the Luminous; that is, the divine essence of light incorporated in universal matter.
		When Crowley was enthroned in Berlin as Baphomet, the title he assumed when he joined the OTO, he copied as his seal the Alexandrian gem displayring the conjoined ram and goat of Mendes-Pan, that he had garnered from the "Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus" by Richard Payne Knight.
		Payne Knight, Richard - Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus, privately printed, London, 1865.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/pan.htm (5461 words)

	Aesthetics and the Picturesque, 1795—1840 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price took up the Picturesque cause, not like Gilpin in respect of travel, but because of a shared antipathy for the then prevalent landscape gardening style of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
		Knight’s The Landscape outlines principles of taste, rules of gardening and celebrates older formal gardens while attacking those of Brown and his followers.
		Knight’s intellectual sparring partner Uvedale Price modelled his theories on Edmund Burke’s account of the beautiful and the sublime.
	www.thoemmes.com /404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/aesthetics/picturesque.htm (580 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Discourse on the Worship of Priapus and Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients and (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kessinger Publishing has at least done the world a favor in resurrecting archaic texts like Payne Knight's "Discourse on the Worship of Priapus," many of which had indeed been out of print for decades or even centuries and were largely unavailable to the interested layman.
		Probably most people interested in Knight's "Discourse" have been referred hither by notorious Aleister Crowley, who lauded it as "invaluable to all students" in his "Magick in Theory and Practice." It's easy to see why he was interested.
		Sir Richard Payne Knight (in company with countless others) believed that he had reconstructed the ancient "Symbolical Language" out of the pithy archaeological tokens of bygone civilizations; but it is only another pretension (after all) to insist that he was mistaken.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0766100367 (627 words)

	Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824), Numismatist
		A collector and arbiter of taste, Knight was known for his antiquarian interests and writings on aesthetics.
		He gained notoriety with his Discourse on the Worship of Priapus (1786) which, as it discussed sexual symbolism in ancient societies, was attacked as immoral.
		In 1805, Knight was among the founders of the British Institution to promote history painting.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp02580 (184 words)

	Life-death-rebirth deity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the late eighteenth century, the naturalist interpretation took on renewed vigor, as freethinkers like Richard Payne Knight sought to explain all religious phenomena in terms of solar activity.
		The rape and return of Persephone, the rending and repair of Osiris, the travails and triumph of Baldur would therefore all be rooted in primitive rites to renew the fertility of withered land and crops.
		By the Victorian era, the solar-phallic ideas of Payne Knight along with the less risqué work of scholars like Max Müller had taken strange turns as they made their way into popular discourse.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Life-death-rebirth-deity.htm (1063 words)

	Encyclopedia Index
		British associationism, developed by Hartley and Hume, influenced the landscape theory of Richard Payne Knight and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
		Jones studied in London under Richard Wilson (1763-65) and travelled to Italy in 1776, remaining until 1783, painting his now-celebrated oil sketches in between highly finished views of Rome and Naples.
		A copy of his A Storm in Harvest (a scene described in Thomson) was owned by Payne Knight; the work was criticised by Robert Bloomfield for being unrealistic.
	www.geocities.com /virtualandy/endex.htm (12251 words)

	TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITION: 1786 - 1790. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An Essay on the Worship of Priapus, by Richard Payne Knight, 36, published by the Dilettanti Society.
		It is probable that there is truth in Rebold's statement that the Cannongate Kilwinning Lodge, which was a Jacobite Lodge, was the Christian Harodim which expired, as the Scotch Rite contends with the ruin which befell that political sect.
		The title of Grand Inspector General was acquired by the Grand Lodge of France from the dignatory Officers of the Emperors when, together with the Knights of the East, the remains of these Orders united with the Grand Orient in 1786, and into which Tschoudy had introduced the Noachite.
	www.antiqillum.com /texts/tl/TLSix-007.htm (4467 words)

	AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: Treatise on the worship of Priapus
		Administrative/Biographical history: Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824) was a numismatist.
		It is unclear whether this manuscript is the original of Payne Knight's work, or a copy made by another person following the publication of the work.
		Publication note: Richard Payne Knight, An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, lately existing at Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples: in two letters; one from Sir William Hamilton...
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/14/3147.htm (314 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 96016317 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Publisher description for Architecture, landscape, and liberty : Richard Payne Knight and the picturesque / Andrew Ballantyne.
		Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) was a distinguished connoisseur and critic who played a very significant role in the cultural life of his day.
		Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Knight, Richard Payne, 1750-1824 Contributions in aesthetics, Aesthetics, British 18th century
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam027/96016317.html (202 words)

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		Knight, Christopher and Lomas, Robert THE HIRAM KEY: Pharoahs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus.
		Knight, Richard Payne A DISCOURSE ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS.
		Knight, Stephen THE BROTHERHOOD: The Explosive Expose of the Secret World of the Freemasons/ A considered enquiry into the influence that the secret masonic network has on society.
	www.btinternet.com /~occultique/authors_k.html (1413 words)

	Life-death-rebirth deity - Gurupedia
		The abduction and return of Persephone, Cicero argued, was symbolic of the planting and growth of crops.
		Baldur would therefore all be rooted in primitive rites to renew the fertility of withered land and crops.
		By the Victorian era, the solar-phallic ideas of Payne Knight and his colleagues had taken strange turns as they made their way into popular discourse.
	www.gurupedia.com /l/li/life-death-rebirth_deity.htm (825 words)

	Liber LII Manifesto of the O.T.O.
		The Order of the Knights of the Holy Ghost.
		The Order of the Knights of St. John.
		Knight of the East and of the West.
	www.the-equinox.org /vol3/eqv3n1/eq0301195.htm (1435 words)

	Amazon.com: A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus: A History of Phallic Worship: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion.
		Richard Knight hoped to discover the meaning of the widespread practice of phallic worship in the ancient world, and what relationship this might have to the theology of the ancients.
		Knight discovered that the forms and ceremonies of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense, but are to be considered as symbolic representations of some hidden meaning, which may be extremely wise and just.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/158963036X?v=glance (868 words)

	Georgian Index - Gardens
		Mount Edgecombe the Cornwall home of the Edgecombe family was one of the most visited gardens in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
		Richard Edgecombe laid out a walk by the sea with temples and romantic woods.
		In the early 1800's Richard Payne Knight was the chief critic of Repton's work.
	www.georgianlife.homestead.com /Files/garden/Gardens.html (2640 words)

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