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	Rake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rake became the butt of moralistic tales in which his typical fate was debtor's prison, venereal disease, or, in the case of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, insanity in Bedlam.
		The Tavern Scene from A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth.
		Tom Rakewell, the protagonist of William Hogarth's series of paintings, A Rake's Progress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rake (451 words)

	Rake (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth
		For machinery and gates, "raked" means slanted; for example, the angle of the steering post of a bicycle to the vertical is its "rake angle".
		Rake is a guitar playing technique, where play one or more strings muted before the intended notes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rake_(disambiguation) (185 words)

	A Rake's Progress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Rake's Progress is a series of the paintings and engravings by William Hogarth made from 1733 to 1735.
		The libretto of The Rake's Progress, written by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman to a score by Igor Stravinsky, is loosely based on the story from Hogarth's paintings.
		The eight pictures show the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who comes to London, wastes all his money on luxurious living, whoring and gambling, and as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bedlam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Rake's_Progress (304 words)

	Lords Rake Scafell (or Lord's Rake)
		Forward progress is now easy down a short descent with fine airy views to the right, which should be appreciated standing still, as the path is narrow and strewn with loose rocks, especialy at the halfway point, where the path is broken by scree and larger debris.
		Reports indicate that the pinnacle at the top of the first section has collapsed into the rake and is now wedged.
		Care should be taken to avoid dislodging rocks in the rake as due to its enclosed nature any stones will fall onto any climbers below who will be unable to move out of the line of fire.
	www.fellwalk.co.uk /page47.htm (644 words)

	Rake's Progress
		When your pal the Rake recovers, he'll try to get the rakesprogress.com address pointing in the right direction.
		For now, please visit the new and improved Rake's Progress here, and thanks for reading.
		Adams was in large part responsible for the Rake's transition from young smartass to, well, older smartass.
	www.rakesprogress.com (6210 words)

	Rake's Progress
		You want this blog re-named Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code Presents Rake's Progress?
		The Rake is especially glad to see that the Colorado Rockies weblog The Denver Baseball Observer is appropriately cynical.
		The Rake's heading up north to cause trouble with his good time buddies, so posting will probably be sporadic at best the next couple days.
	rakesprogress.com /archive/2004_03_01_rakesprogress_archive.html (12359 words)

	Rake's Progress
		Rake's Progress celebrates two years of utter frivolity today.
		Expect more of the same in the next year, with the addition of some no doubt insufferable twaddle about Baby Rake, who's due in early August.
		YPTR was just made aware of this excerpt of Hobart's interview with Sal Plascencia, of The People of Paper renown.
	rakesprogress.typepad.com /rakes_progress (2460 words)

	Rake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rake became the butt of moralistic tales in which his typical fate was debtor's prison, venereal disease, or, in the case of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, insanity in Bedlam.
		During the Restoration period 1660-1688, the word was used in a glamorous sense: the Restoration rake is a carefree, witty, sexually irresistible aristocrat typified by Charles II's courtiers, the Earl of Rochester and the Earl of Dorset, who combined riotous living with intellectual pursuits and patronage of the arts.
		The rake is also frequently a cad: a man who seduces a young woman and impregnates her before leaving, often to her social or financial ruin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rake (451 words)

	Rake (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth.
		In poker and related multi-player gambling, a rake is a tax that the house takes on players' bets on each other.
		The Rake is a literary magazine in Minnesota.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rake_%28disambiguation%29 (451 words)

	Rake (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth
		Raking fire is fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
		A rake, a stock character in a play or movie, a man of high society with loose morals
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raking (122 words)

	Rake (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth
		Raking fire is fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
		A rake, a stock character in a play or movie, a man of high society with loose morals
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raking (125 words)

	Banff
		Their seat is deeper (in the soul), and is I never saw the face of the madman (in the "Rake's Progress ") exceeded in that has seen can easily forget." It is, as he argues, human suffering attention of the reader to Lamb 's bold and excellent defence of Hogarth.
		As a painter passions from the lowest mirth to the profoundest melancholy, possessing as I presume it can--in beings who have neither costume nor rank to set grandeur are far beyond the conventional figures of many other artists.
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.termsdefined.net /ba/banff.html (125 words)

	rake
		Guidelines Work at the Rake Reprint Information Contact Rake staff Media Kit Privacy Policy The Rake's Progress: Webbed Feet (07/18) Â» Yo, Ivanhoe!: My Back Pages: No Man Should Ever (07/22) Â» Read Menace...
		We are one of the original rake back websites and the leader in providing fully-automated rake back plans.
		It's that time of year again, when Barclays Premiership players all reluctantly return from the Caribbean to stroll through some friendly matches against lower league clubs or jet off to the Far East to rake in some cash from football-crazy locals.
	rake.networklive.org (125 words)

	Tower Records - Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress / Stravinsky, Royal PO
		Tower Records - Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress / Stravinsky, Royal PO Welcome to TowerRecords.com!
		We do not know when this title will be available to order.
		Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1085893 (310 words)

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		Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress / Bostridge · York · Terfel · von Otter · Howells · LSO · Gardiner
		Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress / Lott, Goeke, Ramey, Elias, van Allan, Haitink, Glyndebourne Opera
		Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress / Hockney, Haitink, Glyndebourn Festival
	www.pricegig.com /rake.html (126 words)

	Rake, IA
		Rake's Progress, The Rake, IA Rake, Iowa Rake-and-scrape rake-off rake-off Rake-vein rakehell Rakehoe Rakel Rakel Liekki Word (phrase): Word Starts with Ends with Definition Free Tools: For surfers:
	realdating-iowa.info /city/Rake (526 words)

	Chester Kallman
		Together with W.H. Auden, Kallman prepared the libretto for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress ; they also worked together on two librettos for Henze, Elegy for Young Lovers and The Bassarids, and on a number of libretto translations.
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		He was praised for his volumes of poetry, notably Absent and Present (1963)
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/chester_kallman (526 words)

	Island of Freedom - Wystan Hugh Auden
		With his close friend Chester Kallman he collaborated on opera libretti, including Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951).
		He received the National Medal for Literature in 1967.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /AUDEN.HTM (526 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Rakes Progress: An Opera In 3
		The Rake's Progress: My Tale Shall Be Told
		The Rake's Progress: You Love Him, Seek To Set Him Right
		The Rake's Progress: Come, Master, Observe The Host Of Mankind
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005E43 (526 words)

	Gin Lane - A Hogarth Inspired Dolls House
		The bottom floor will be the Quack Apothecary from "Rake's Progress" with the upper floor being a combo of "Before and After" and "The Harlot's Progress" but mainly drawing on the former.
		But when looking through Hogarth's prints in search of inspiration, and he had a fairly detailed apothecary scene in "The Rakes Progress" the project swiftly shifted to incorporate the quack and his famous harlots, his humor and attention to detail.
		The first thing I did after gluing the house together was to make my Harlot's corset, seen on the Progress page.
	www.sepulchritude.com /miniatures/ginlane (230 words)

	Tingle Alley
		In which Tingle Alley concludes a dialogue with Rake’s Progress on Salvador Plascencia’s novel The People of Paper.
		For the past little bit, the proprietors of Tingle Alley and Rake’s Progress have been confabbing about Salvador Plascencia’s novel The People of Paper.
		Sorry to keep you waiting on the final People of Paper dispatch, my response to my pal The Rake with a little ditty about the James Wood realism piece — I’ve been tapping away but it is still not quite ready and I have to dash out for a couple meetings.
	www.tinglealley.com (8317 words)

	William Congreve
		lick here to see William Hogarth's famous morally didactic series of engravings, "The Rake's Progress." Click here to see a modern British production's costumes and set designs for William Etheredge's Man of Mode, another Restoration comedy.
		The "rake" (from "rake-hell") is a type of Restoration comedy character we have not yet encountered in early literature except for John Wilmot, the earl of Rochester and perhaps the living model for "Mr.
		To see a visual representation of the "rake" lifestyle by an artist who was Congreve's younger contemporary, c
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/william_congreve.htm (8317 words)

	Gin Lane - A Hogarth Inspired Dolls House
		But when looking through Hogarth's prints in search of inspiration, and he had a fairly detailed apothecary scene in "The Rakes Progress" the project swiftly shifted to incorporate the quack and his famous harlots, his humor and attention to detail.
		The bottom floor will be the Quack Apothecary from "Rake's Progress" with the upper floor being a combo of "Before and After" and "The Harlot's Progress" but mainly drawing on the former.
		The first thing I did after gluing the house together was to make my Harlot's corset, seen on the Progress page.
	www.sepulchritude.com /miniatures/ginlane (8317 words)

	Gottfried Helnwein: Kristallnacht ARTIST Biography Stage design and costumes for Strawinsky's "Rake's progress" at the State Opera in Hamburg (Hamburgische Staatsoper).Tom Rakewell
		Stage design and costumes for Strawinsky's "Rake's progress" at the State Opera in Hamburg (Hamburgische Staatsoper).
		Stage design and costumes for Strawinsky's "Rake's progress" at the State Opera in Hamburg (Hamburgische Staatsoper).Tom Rakewell
	kristallnacht.helnwein.com /en_US/kuenstler/biografie/artikel_858.html (8317 words)

	INTERVIEW: The Rake's Progress, Altitude - Bob Gajarsky
		One of the people at Almo said that people at major labels were kicking themselves, asking "Who the hell are the Rake's Progress, what is hifi records {the label which released the
		; fans who want to hear what the band sounds like in their natural habitat, live, should check out for future B-sides from The Rake's Progress, culled from an early 1995 show at New York's Irving Plaza.
		E.P.}, and why is KROQ playing them and not our bands?" It was a fluke - but through that, it's been spreading to other radio stations around the country.
	www.westnet.com /consumable/1995/07.07/revrakes.html (1107 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts news Emin bed sets scene for her theatre debut
		He went on to design stages for Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in 1978, Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and another production of The Rake's Progress at the San Francisco Opera House in 1982.
		His first foray into theatre was in 1975 when he designed sets for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival.
		His designs became more ambitious as he moved on to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in 1987, Puccini's Turandot at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1992.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1204921,00.html (1107 words)

	Timeline 1879-1882
		His work also included "The Rake’s Progress" and "Oedipus Rex." The libretto for Rake’s Progress was written by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman.
		1880 Francis W. Parker (d.1902 at 64), a pioneer in progressive elementary education, became supervisor of the Boston school system and later established the Chicago Institute.
		He argued that the value of land was based on its location and that the value of the land should flow to society as a whole rather than the person who holds title.
	timelines.ws /1879_1882.HTML (1107 words)

	bedlam.doc
		The interior of St. Mary's (bedlam) is illustrated in a series of paintings by William Hogarth, depicting the tale "A Rake's Progress." A Rake's Progress is the story who comes into money and spends it all on "drink, debauchery and dissolute pursuits." The wretched life he leads ends up driving him insane.
		This story parallels Dr. Minor's sordid life while he was living in Lambeth Marsh, the "Tenderloin District" of New York, and frequenting the bars and brothels of Brooklyn.
		Luckily for Dr. Minor, the hospital was extremely overcrowded at the time; this twist of fate certainly prevented Dr. Minor's paranoid delusions from becoming worse.
	www.uwrf.edu /~W1082720/bedlam.doc (446 words)

	Timeline 1879-1882
		His work also included "The Rake’s Progress" and "Oedipus Rex." The libretto for Rake’s Progress was written by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman.
		Chester Arthur approved new borders for the Hopi reservation, a 1.6 million-acre site in the center of 17 million acres of Navajo land in the 4 Corners area of the Southwest.
		1881 Sep 20, Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A.
	timelines.ws /1879_1882.HTML (13985 words)

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