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New fire-works, at the Prospect Hotel, Hooper's Hill, Margate. Signior Hengler & Co. Artists in fire-works, of Vauxhall, inform the Nobility and Gentry of Margate, Ramsgate, and their environs, that they will exhibit a grand and brilliant display of fire-works, on Thursday evening next, the 7th August, 1800, In a far superior style to any yet displayed in this Place. order of firing. 1. Three Signal Rockets 2. Battery of Maroons 3. A Bengal Fire 4. The Grand Wheel of Boreas, in Blue, White, Green, and Brilliant Fires, surrounded with Brilliant Stars 5. A Grand Battery of Sofison Volland 6. A Horizontal Girandole Wheel, with Roman Candles and Mines 7 A Vertical Wheel in Brilliant Fire, in which will appear a Contact between the Sun and Moon 8. A Flight of Rockets 9. The Grand Star of Malta, in Four Mutations, in Radiant and Brilliant Angelic Pires 10. A Battery of Sofison Volland 11....
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Vagrant writing : social and semiotic disorders in the English renaissance /
Table of Contents: “…Mortality and the Utility of Courtship: Castiglione's Book of the Courtier; 6. The Radiant and the Reflective: Courtly Authority and Crisis in Jonson's Masques and Cynthia's Revels; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index…”
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Byron's heroines /
Table of Contents: “…'Quiet Cruising o'er the Ocean Woman': Byron's Don Juan and the Woman Question -- 5. 'Each Was Radiant in Her Proper Sphere': Byron's Theory of Repression from Greece to the 'Gynocrasy' -- 6. …”
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