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William James Stillman
William James Stillman (1828-1901)

painter, photographer, journalist, diplomat, art historian

  • Union College

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The Autobiography Of A Journalist
The autobiography of a journalist, William James Stillman
Poetic localities
Poetic localities of Cambridge
The union of Italy, 1815-1895
The old Rome and the new
American consul in a Cretan war
The amateur's photographic guide book
Herzegovina and the late uprising
Journalism and literature
Billy and Hans, my squirrel friends
On the track of Ulysses
The Cretan insurrection of 1866-7-8
Herzegovina and the late uprising: the causes of the latter and the remedies
The constitutional and legal aspect of the Mormon question
The coinage of the Greeks
Francesco Crispi
Articles and despatches [sic] from Crete
The old Rome and the new and other studies
The union of Italy, 1815-1895
The autobiography of a journalist
Report of W.J. Stillman on the Cesnola Collection
The Acropolis of Athens
Venus & Apollo in painting and sculpture
The Crayon
The old Rome and the new and other studies
The old Rome and the new and other stories
William Hayley
William Hayley (1745-1820)

poet, painter, biographer

  • University of Cambridge, Eton College

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The life of John Milton, with conjectures on the origin of Paradise lost
Two dialogues
The life of Milton
The life of George Romney ..
The life and letters of William Cowper
Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. the friend and biographer of Cowper
The life of Milton, in three parts
The triumphs of temper
Douglas D'Arcy: Some Passages in the Life of an Adventurer
An essay on epic poetry
An essay on sculpture: in a series of epistles [in verse]. With notes
The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem. In Six Cantos
An essay on painting, in two epistles to Mr. Romney
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq. the Friend and Biographer of Cowper
An essay on history
Plays of Three Acts: Written for a Private Theatre
An Essay on Epic Poetry: In Five Epistles to the Revd. Mr. Mason. With Notes ..
The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq.: With Remarks on Epistolary Writers
The triumphs of temper, a poem
Epistle to a friend, on the death of John Thornton, Esq
The eulogies of Howard ; Ballads, founded on anecdotes relating to animals ; Poems on serious and sacred subjects
Occasional stanzas, written at the request of the Revolution Society and recited on their anniversary, November 4, 1788 ; to which is added, Queen Mary to King William, during his campaign in Ireland, 1690
Three plays
The life, and posthumous writings, of William Cowper, esq
Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, the friend and biographer of Cowper
Ode to Mr. Wright of Derby
The life, and posthumous writings, of William Cowper, esqr
Life and posthumous writings of William Cowper
The life and letters of William Cowper
Douglas D'Arcy
A poetical epistle to an eminent painter
Ballads
Ballads Founded on Anecdotes of Animals
An essay on history
Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq., the friend and biographer of Cowper
Poems On Serious And Sacred Subjects
Poems and plays
Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, esq
The Eulogies of Howard
An essay on painting
Epistle to Admiral Keppel
The life and letters of William Cowper, esq
A poetical epistle to an eminent painter ; An elegy on the ancient Greek model ; Epistle to Admiral Keppel ; Epistle to a friend on the death of John Thornton ; An essay on history
Ballads, Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals
Plays
An essay on sculpture
An essay on sculpture: in a series of epistles to John Flaxman, esq. R.A., with notes ..
The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper
A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids
A sermon preached in the parish church of St. Giles in the Fields
Eudora
An elegy on the ancient Greek model
Poems
Lord Russel
Ode, inscribed to John Howard
The life of the late William Cowper, esq
An essay on sculpture: in a series of epistles to John Flaxman, ... By William Hayley, Esq
A tribute to the memory of William Cowper, author of The task, and other poems
The life of John Milton; to which are added conjectures on the origin of 'Paradise lost', with an appendix
An essay on epic poetry, in five epistles to ... Mr. Mason, with notes
Song for the amicable fraternity of Felpham
Ode to Mr. Wright of Derby. By William Hayley, Esq
The two connoisseurs
The mausoleum
The happy prescription, or, The lady relieved from her lovers
Designs to a series of ballads written by William Hayley, Esq. and founded on anecdotes relating to animals
An elegy on the ancient Greek model, addressed to the right reverend Robert Lowth, Lord Bishop of London
The young widow; or the history of Cornelia Sedley
An essay on history in three epistles to Edward Gibbon, esq. (1780)
Epistle to a friend
Marcella
The life and postumous writings of William Cowper
Little Tom, the sailor
Sonnet and epitaph
Poems, by William Hayley, Esq. ..
The life of John Milton
The triumph of music
Supplementary pages to the life of Cowper
An essay on history, in three epistles to Edward Gibbon Esq., with notes
The two connoisseurs; a comedy, in rhyme. Written for a private theatre, by William Hayley, Esq
Memoirs of the life and writings of W. Hayley, the friend and biographer of Cowper, written by himself, with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry
Occasional stanzas
Ode, inscribed to John Howard, Esq., F.R.S., author of The state of English and foreign prisons ..
Anecdotes of Philip, late earl of Chesterfield and Dr. Johnson
Essai satirique et amusant sur les vieilles filles
A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids. By a friend to the sisterhood. In three volumes. ..
A patriotic song for the Amicable Club of Felpham
The life of George Romney, Esq
An elegy on the ancient Greek model
Ode inscribed to John Howard, L.L.D., F.R.S
The eulogies of Howard. A vision
Two dialogues (1787)
Ode, inscribed to John Howard ; An essay on painting ; The triumphs of temper ; An essay on epic poetry
[Designs to a series of ballads written by William Hayley and founded on anecdotes relating to animals, drawn, engr. and pub. by William Glake
Ode inscribed to John Howard, esq. ... author of "The State of English and Foreign Prisons"
An essay on sculpture
The triumphs of temper
The triumphs of temper
Ode, inscribed to John Howard, author of "The state of English and foreign prisons" ...
The life of John Milton
Plays of three acts
Douglas D'Arcy
An essay on painting
The life and posthumous writings, of William Cowper, esqr
Epistle to a friend, on the death of John Thornton, Esq
Epistle to a friend on the death of John Thornton ...
Amelia, or, The faithless Briton
A philosophical, historical and moral essay on old maids ...
Maximilian Voloshin
Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932)

painter, poet, literary critic, translator, essayist, journalist, bretteur, bibliophile

  • Feodosia male gymnasium, Moscow State University, Faculty of Law

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Poems
Istorii͡a︡ moeĭ dushi
Maksimilian Voloshin
Putnik po vselennym
Avtobiograficheskai͡a︡ proza
Surikov
Vse daty bytii͡a︡
"Parizha i︠a︡ li︠u︡bli︠u︡ osenniĭ, strogiĭ plen-- "
O Ri︠e︡pini︠e︡
I︠U︡venalii︠a︡
Izbrannoe
"Temoĭ moeĭ i︠a︡vli︠a︡etsi︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡"
Puti︠a︡mi Kaina
Rossii︠a︡ raspi︠a︡tai︠a︡
Anno mundi ardentis, 1915
Koktebelʹskie berega
Puti Rossii
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡, statʹi, vospominanii︠a︡ sovremennikov
Rekviem
Usobit͡s︡a
Liki tvorchestva
Zhiznʹ--beskonechnoe poznanʹe
"I︠A︡ byl, i︠a︡ esmʹ--"
Peĭzazhi Maksimiliana Voloshina
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Sobranie sochineniĭ, T. 5: Liki tvorchestva: Kn. 2: Iskusstvo i iskus; Kn. 3: Teatr i snovidenie, proza
Kimmerii︠a︡
"Sredotochʹe vsekh puteĭ--"
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ 1910-1920
Demony glukhonemye
Lirika
Dom poėta
Maksimilian Voloshin
Stikhi o terrore
Dar Mikhaila Baryshnikova
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡
Panait Istrati
Panait Istrati (1884-1935)

journalist, photographer, painter and varnisher, valet

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Vers l'autre flamme
Le pèlerin du cœur
Amintiri, evocări, confesiuni
Cum am devenit scriitor
Pelerinul inimii
Le pêcheur d'éponges
Mes départs
Correspondance intégrale
Kyra Kyralina
Kyra Kyralina
Uncle Anghel
Presentation des Haidoucs (les Recits d'Adrien Zograffi)
Codin
La Russie nue
Pagini de corespondentă
Bandits
Œuvres ..
Correspondance intégrale Panait Istrati-Romain Rolland
Feṭer Angel
La famille Perlmutter [par] Panaït Istrati et Josué Jéhouda
Méditerranée: Coucher du soleil
Pusztai bogáncsok
Die Disteln des Baragan
OEuvres ..
Michail
Russia unveiled
En Égypte
Les chardons du Baragan
Codin ; Mihail ; Ciulinii Bărăganului
The bitter orange tree
Cruciada mea sau a noastră
Domnitza de Snagov
Méditerranée
Kyra Kyralina (Les Recits d'Adrien Zograffi)
Corespondență cu scriitori străini
Soviets, 1929
Présentation des Haïdoucs
Oncle Anghel
Enfance d'Adrien Zograffi
Kyra Kyraline
Oncle Anghel (Les Recits d'Adrien Zograffi)
Onkel Angiël
... Mes départs (pages autobiographiques)
Haïdoucs
Tage der Jugend
La maison Thüringer
Ce que je fus
Nerrantsoula­Tsatsa­Minnka­La Famille Perlmutter
Le pêcheur d'éponges
Povestirile lui Adrian Zograffi
Trecut și viitor
The thistles of the Baragan ..
Opere alese
Akdeniz
Krya Kyralina (Short Story Index)
Neranțula și alte povestiri
So geht es nicht!
Opere
Sokak kızı (Nerrantsula)
Tsatsa Minnka
Di hayduḳn
Pentru a fi iubit pămîntul ..
Méditerranée
Moș Anghel
The thistles of the Baragan
Trei deceni de publicistică
Les chardons du Baragan
Vie d'Adrien Zograffi
Ḳira Ḳiralina
Domnitza de Snagov
Codine
Russland nackt
Ḳirah Ḳiralinah
Musah
Kyra Kyralina
Stávka v přístavě
La maison Thüringer
Les chardons du Baragon ; suivi de, Tsatsa-Minnka, Nerrantsoula, La famille Perlmutter, Pour avoir aimé la terre
Di heyduḳn
Povestirile lui Adrian Zograffi
The bandits
Jiu jiu Angge'er
Jila Jilalinna
Les récits d'Adrien Zograffi
Trecut şi viitor
Kodin, Kindheit des Adrian Zograffi
Vers l'autre flamme
Musah
Kŭmʺ drugii︠a︡ plamŭkʺ
Hajduci z vyprávění Adriana Zograffiho
Viața lui Adrian Zografi
Pentru a fi iubit pămîntul ...
Moș Anghel ; Codin
CHIRA CHIRALINA
Tsatsa-Minnka
Ḳira Ḳiralina
Ciulinii Bărăganului
Uncle Anghel
Isaac
La jeunesse d'Adrien Zograffi
Opere alese
Omul care nu aderă la nimic
Eugène Fromentin
Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876)

painter, art historian

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Gustave Drouineau
Gustave Drouineau
The masters of past time
Dominique
Un été dans le Sahara
The old masters of Belgium and Holland
Les mai tres d'autrefois, Belgique, Hollande
Between sea and Sahara
Les maitres d'autrefois
Correspondance et fragments inédits
Les maîtres d'autrefois, Belgique, Hollande
Dominique
Une année dans le Sahel
Les maîtres d'autrefois
Rubens et Rembrandt
Dominique
Dominique
Die alten Meister (Belgien-Holland)
Etude sur l'Ahasverus d'Edgar Quinet
Dominique
Œuvres complètes
Étude sur l'Ahasvérus d'Edgar Quinet
Voyage en Égypte (1869)
The old masters of Belgium and Holland (Les mai tres d'autrefois)
Dominique
Dominique. Chronologie et introd. par Guy Sagnes
Étude sur l'Athasvérus d'Edgar Quinet
Lettres de jeunesse
Un été dans la Sahara
Sahara et Sahel
Correspondance et fragments
Fromentin
Un été dans le Sahara
Dominique
Etude sur l'Ahasvérus d'Edgar Quinet
Gustave Drouineau
Un e te dans le Sahara
The Masters of a past time
Dominque
Sahara & Sahel
Une année dans le Sahel
Lettres de jeunesse
Les maîtres d'autrefois, Belgigue-Hollande
Die alten Meister
Un été dans le Sahara
Les Maîtres d'autrefois, Belgique-Hollande
Les plus belles pages consacrées à Pierre-Paul Rubens
Les maitres d'autrefois, Belgique-Hollande
Correspondance et fragments inédits
Voyage en Egypte (1869)
Mistrzowie dawni
Un été dans le Sahara
The old masters of Belgium & Holland
Correspondance et fragments inédits
Sahara et Sahel
Dominique
Une année dans le Sahel
Sahara et Sahel
Někdejší mistři
Gustave Drouineau
Eugène Fromentin, 1820-1876
The masters of past time
Correspondance et fragments inédits
Die alten meister, Belgien-Holland
Un éte dans le Sahara
Dominique
Lettres de jeunesse
Dominique
Eugène Fromentin : écrivain-peintre
Voyage en Égypte (1869)
Notes sur l'île de Ré
Correspondance d'Eugène Fromentin
Un été dans la Sahara
The old masters of Belgium and Holland
Les Maîtres d'autrefois, Belgique-Hollande
Los maestros de antaño
Lettres de jeunesse
Dominique
Dominique
Les maîtres d'autrefois, Belgique - Hollande
Dominique
Dominique
Les maîtres d'autrefois, beigique-Hollande
Les Maîtres d'autrefois
Les Maîtres d'autrefois, Belgique-Hollande
Un Eté dans le Sahara
Une année dans le Sahel ; un été dans le Sahara
Les maîtres d'autrefois, Belgique-Hollande
Les Maîtres d'autrefois
Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes (1881-1953)

painter, printmaker, illustrator, philosopher, drawer, art theorist, art critic

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Albert Gleizes
Du cubisme et des moyens de le comprendre
Kubismus
Cubism
Du "Cubisme"
Life and death of the Christian West
Vers une conscience plastique
Art et religion
L' homme devenu peintre
Souvenirs, le cubisme, 1908-1914
Key words
Vie et mort de l'Occident chrétien
Objet & sujet
Gleizes sur Picasso et Braque
Souvenirs
Albert Gleizes in 1934
Albert Gleizes and the Section d'or
The Epic
L' art sacré d'Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes, l'œuvre graphique , "La lumière et le trait"
Puissances du cubisme
Tradition et cubisme
Homocentrisme
Albert Gleizes 1881-1953
Art and Religion, Art and Science, Art and Production
Art & science
Du "Cubisme"
Souvenirs, le cubisme, 1908-1914
Peinture et perspective descriptive
[Paintings]
Homocentrisme
La signification humaine du cubism
Rétrospective Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953
Tradition et cubisme vers une conscience plastique
Le Cubisme
Vers une conscience plastique
Art et religion, art et science, art et production
Spirituality, rhythm, form
Vie et mort de l'Occident chrétien
Exposition Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953
La signification humaine du cubisme
Albert Gleizes et le cubisme
La peinture et ses lois
Albert Gleizes et tempête dans les salons, 1910-1914
Paintings, gouaches, drawings
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)

painter, journalist, editor, literary critic, drawer, poet, critic

  • Slade School of Fine Art, Rugby School

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Journey into Barbary
The essential Wyndham Lewis
Rude assignment
The caliph's design
The wild body
The lion and the fox
Time and western man
Self condemned
The vulgar streak
The apes of God
The revenge for love
Blasting & bombardiering
Tarr
The complete Wild body
Paleface
The art of being ruled
Snooty baronet
The roaring queen
Men without art
Enemy salvoes
Men without art
The human age
Hitler
Wyndham Lewis
Creatures of habit and creatures of change
Doom of youth
Count your dead: they are alive!
Unlucky for Pringle
Unlucky for Pringle: unpublished and other stories
The demon of progress in the arts
Wyndham Lewis, the artist ; from "Blast" to Burlington House
The lion and the fox
Anglosaxony
The Childermass
Filibusters in Barbary
Satire & fiction
One-way song
Wyndham Lewis and vorticism
Wyndham Lewis on art
Rotting Hill
Blast 2
The diabolical principle, and The dithyrambic spectator
Harold Gilman, an appreciation
The Red priest
The shadow of Cervantes
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Wyndham Lewis
Beyond this limit
Letters
The old gang and the new gang
America, I presume
Wyndham Lewis
America and cosmic man
Left wings over Europe
A soldier of fortune
The Hitler cult
Ezra Pound
The stuffed owl
Wyndham Lewis the artist from "Blast" to Burlington House
Unlucky for Pringle
Paleface, the philosophy of the "melting-pot"
The Jews, are they human?
A moralist with a corn cob
Rotting Hill
REVENGE FOR LOVE
The roaring queen
Wyndham Lewis, collected poems and plays
The art of being ruled
Collected poems and plays
Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose
Wyndham Lewis & I.A. Richards
The mysterious Mr. Bull
Wyndham Lewis, the artist
The sea-mists of the winter
Engine fight-talk
The lion and the fox
The letters of Wyndham Lewis
Fifteen drawings
Enemy of the stars
Tarr
Count your dead: they are alive! Or a new war in the making
Timon - Athens - Shakespeare [sic]
Satire and fiction. preceded by the history of a rejected review
The code of a herdsman
Filibusters in Barbary (record of a visit to the Sous)
On straw and other conceits
Wyndham Lewis 1882-1957
Caps, bells, and knockers
WILD BODY: 'A SOLDIER OF HUMOUR' AND OTHER STORIES
Monstre gai
Engine fight-talk, The song of the militant romance, If so the man you are, One-way song, Envoi
Cantleman's spring mate
An anthology of his prose
Filibusters in Barbary
Tarr
Mrs Dukes' Million
MEN WITHOUT ART
The Tyro
Imaginary letters
Blast 1
Self condemned
Thirty personalities and a self-portrait
Malign fiesta
A soldier of humor, and selected writings
The writer and the absolute
Blast
Wyndham Lewis, the artist
Mrs. Dukes' million
The Childermass
Satire & fiction
Imaginary letters
The revenge for love. --
America and cosmic man
The revenge for love. --
The Childermass
Rotting hill. --
Collected poems and plays [of] Wyndham Lewis
The sea-mists of the winter
[Paintings]
Wyndham Lewis
Crossing the frontier
The lion and the fox
The Childermass
One-way song
Der mysteriöse John Bull
Akuma shugi
The Enemy
Letters
The apes of God
The human age
Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet (1758-1838)

anthropologist, archaeologist, antiquarian seller, painter, explorer, diarist

  • Queen Elizabeth Grammar School

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The journeys of Sir Richard Colt Hoare through Wales and England, 1793-1810
Recollections abroad, during the years 1785[-1791]
A tour through the island of Elba
A catalogue of books relating to the history and topography of Italy
A classical tour through Italy and Sicily
Journal of a tour in Ireland, A.D. 1806
The ancient history of Wiltshire
The history of modern Wiltshire
Hungerfordiana
Monastic remains of the religious houses at Witham, Bruton, & Stavordale, com ̃Somerset
A catalogue of books relating to the history and topography of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland
A collection of forty-eight views of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats,towns, castles, churches, monasteries, and romantic places in north and south Wales
Hints to travellers in Italy
The Stourhead heirlooms
Catalogue of the Hoare library at Stourhead, co. Wilts
Catalogue of the paintings and drawings at Stourhead, co. Wilts
The Pitney Pavement discovered by Samuel Hasell, Esq. of Littleton, A.D. 1828