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28 mag 2024 · As a poet, dramatist, and experimental novelist, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975) played a major role in the twentieth-century Scottish Literary Renaissance and was a vital presence on Edinburgh’s post-war literary scene.
30 mag 2024 · Sydney Smith (born June 3, 1771, Woodford, Essex, Eng.—died Feb. 22, 1845, London) was one of the foremost English preachers of his day, and a champion of parliamentary reform. Through his writings, he perhaps did more than anyone else to change public opinion regarding Roman Catholic emancipation.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
28 mag 2024 · The Sydney Goodsir Smith Papers (Coll-497) include working materials for Smith's most important poetic and dramatic works, along with letters from other major figures of the Scottish Literary Renaissance.
1 giorno fa · Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
10 mag 2024 · Sydney Carton, fictional character, one of the protagonists of Charles Dickens ’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859), set in France and England before and during the French Revolution. Carton first appears as a cynical drunkard who serves as a legal aide to a London barrister.
21 mag 2024 · A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By His Daughter, Lady Holland with a Selection from His Letters In Two Volumes Bookreader Item Preview
4 giorni fa · Sydney Smith, sacerdote anglicano e polemista liberale inglese, nacque il 3 giugno 1771. Tre citazioni “Abbi il coraggio di essere ignorante su un gran numero di cose, in modo da evitare la calamità di essere ignorante su tutto.” “Il più grande di tutti gli errori è non fare nulla perché si può fare solo poco.”
