Friday, January 30, 2009

'I'le believe my speckled friend' - falling in John Abbott.

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J. A. Rivers, who wrote Devout rhapsodies and published it in 1647, was not an anomalo...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

The research assistant

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(Ah well, it makes a change from writing crap on my computer.) It is suggested that he looks like a webcam, connected (of course) by a USBe...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Peeter and the wolf

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The pamphlet A true discourse. Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe Peeter, a most wic...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Sion's downfallen breaches

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I have been reading Joanereidos, or, Feminine valour eminently discovered in weste...
Friday, January 09, 2009

Squandering the philosopher's stone

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Searching EEBO for something else, I recently came back across Johann Joachim Becher’s Magnalia naturae, or, The philosophers-stone lately e...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

A bad start to 1609 at the Sign of the Firebrand

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A bloudy new- yeares gift, or A true declaration of the most cruell and bloudy mu...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Francis Quarles and the nappy of his saviour.

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Francis Quarles, who was (just about) the most popular poet of the first half of 17 th ...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Herbert's dolphin

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“O what a sight were Man, if his attires Di...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

400 years ago today: John Milton

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Monday, December 08, 2008

Two dangerous pets from 'Zeno'

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The last week of my teaching term, and while I have launched myself ha...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

The demoniac's jet ring

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I have been re-reading Samuel Harsnett’s famous Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603). For all that he so...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Robert Crofts cites Donne as he gives up on love, 1641

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My down-time reading this week has been Robert Crofts’ The way to happinesse on earth conc...
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