Hot-House and Green-House Plants, &c. A Catalogue of a most Valuable, Extensive, and Choice Collection of Healthy, Green House, Hot House, Herbaceous, and Hardy Plants ... Likewise the complete erections of five hot houses and greenhouses, pits, frames, lights, &c. which will be sold by auction by Mr. Winstanley ... on Wednesday, July 10, 1799, and three following days ... By order of the executors of Thomas Sikes, Esq. deceased

1799

Author: Esq. Thomas SIKES

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

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A Treatise upon Planting, Gardening, and the Management of the Hot-House

2014-04-17
Science

Author: John Kennedy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1108072240

Category: Science

Page: 580

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This treatise, on the gardening skills needed on a grand eighteenth-century agricultural estate, is reissued in its 1777 second edition. The coverage ranges from plants such as cabbages and turnips used as cattle feed to hothouse exotics such as pineapples, as well as delicacies such as asparagus and cultivated mushrooms.

Autumn in the Hothouse And Other Poems

2006-04
Drama

Author: David Swartz

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 0595395538

Category: Drama

Page: 332

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The metaphysical outrage and indignation contained within these verses, for the most part formal yet seething with fury, has its only parallel in Wilfred Owen's terrible indictments of the first Great War. There is a significant difference, however. The poet's torment is expressed in the face of God and His Creation and not simply humankind's personal handiwork. The lure of Swartz's "Hothouse" is how dangerously it verges on disintegration and madness. The trial, simply stated, is why, a boundless WHY? hurled into abyss. Only more fearful is the implied silence, the calculated indifference of the answer. The four long poems comprising Part Two are a lull in the rage of the opening section. The poet, while certainly not at ease with his Maker's universe, attempts, even, to entertain, while having his own private jokes with Bard Himself. Part Three includes two representative dramatic poems. The first, "Last Supper," depicts the final moments of Christopher Marlowe, the second, "The Hitler Sonata," those of Adolf Hitler, a disturbing, powerful read. If Plath confronted demons in her brilliant final anguish, the author of THESE skillful, wrenching poems assails the very source of them. One cannot leave this book behind.

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

2001-09-13
Literary Criticism

Author: Gordon Williams

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 0485113937

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 560

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Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.
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