#britain
…Tim
The Last Stand by William Barnes Wollen
Elizabeth Thompson’s painting The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras. The painting depicts the 28th Regiment (North Gloucestershire) of Foot formed into a square to hold against cavalry attack at Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo. The painting is wonderful, save for the shakos, which ought to be stovepipe, but are depicted as false-fronted Belgic.
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All That Was Left Of Them, by Richard Caton Woodville. The painting depicts C Squadron of the 17th Lancers at Modderfontein in the Second Boer War. A lovely painting from a singularly unlovely war.
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Elizabeth Carter as Minerva by John Fayram 1735-1741. Height: 90 cm (35.4 in); Width: 69 cm (27.1 in). National Portrait Gallery, London. Elizabeth Carter was the first person to translate the whole of Epictetus into English.
“Ode to Wisdom:
The solitary bird of night
Through the thick shades now wings his flight,
And quits his time-shook tow'r;
Where shelter’d from the blaze of day,
In philosophic gloom he lay,
Beneath his ivy bow'r.
With joy I hear the solemn sound,
Which midnight echoes waft around,
And sighing gales repeat.
Fav'rite of Pallas! I attend,
And, faithful to thy summons, bend
At Wisdom’s awful seat.
She loves the cool, the silent eve,
Where no false shews of life deceive,
Beneath the lunar ray.
Here folly drops each vain disguise,
Nor sport her gaily-colour’d dyes,
As in the beam of day.
O Pallas! queen of ev'ry art,
That glads the sense, and mends the heart,
Blest source of purer joys:
In every form of beauty bright
That captivates the mental fight
With pleasure and surprize:
At thy unspotted shrine I bow:
Attend thy modest suppliant’s vow,
That breathes no wild desires:
But taught by thy unerring rules,
To shun the fruitless wish of fools.
To nobler views of aspires.
Not fortune’s gem, ambition’s plume,
Nor Cytherea’s fading bloom,
Be objects of my pray'r:
Let av'rice, vanity, and pride,
Those envy’d glitt'ring toys divide,
The dull rewards of care.
To me thy better gifts impart,
Each moral beauty of the heart,
By studious thoughts refin’d;
For wealth, the smiles of glad content,
For pow'r, its amplest, best extent,
An empire o'er the mind.”
-Elizabeth Carter, Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great Britain and Ireland. Page 48-50.
https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2022/03/elizabeth-carter-as-minerva-by-john.html
not to applaud american neoliberalism but joe biden talking about people having to board coffin ships during ireland’s great famine “because of what the brits were doing” is the funniest thing I’ve seen this month. I guarantee you the british media are gonna have a field day with this one. to them bombing syria is fine but calling brits ‘brits’ in a pro-irish context is where they draw the line
Listen to Ian Lucas On LBC with James O'Brien | 14 Nov 2019 | 10-10:30am by No More Unicorns on #SoundCloud
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“Russian Interference” LBC with James O'Brien 14 Nov 2019 | 10-10:30am Full segment with Ian Lucas (minus ad break) from @mrjamesob’s @LBC programme earlier today
From an English person to America:
We are so sorry for killing John Laurens.
