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I could not help thinking of the account of the Weasel in Bewick's Quadrupeds: 'It passes the greatest part of the day in sleeping, and usually employs the night in exercise and eating' [2] And though, my Lord, I feel myself a weasel's superior still, I do not think that the enjoyment would be improved by a repetition, I felt myself out of my element.
Letter 86 2009
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Benjamin Bewick from Pulso Social wrote and brought to our attention IndieGoGo, a website where independent film-makers can raise funds and promote their film.
Global Voices in English » IndieGoGo: fundraising for independent film-makers 2009
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'Oh, mamma!' said one of the little boys, 'this is the very thing that is mentioned in Bewick's History of Birds.
Belinda 1801
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The faithful description of the Blocks illustrating this volume has led to numerous descriptive digressions, apparently irrelevant to the subject; it was found however that in tracing out the former history and use of some of the "Bewick" and other cuts contained in this volume, that the
Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature Edwin Pearson
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"The third species of American swans is that known as Bewick's swan
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850
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This is no flimsy successor to the engineering masterpieces associated with all three rivers: the history of pioneering art in northernmost England embraces the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Ashington painters, the engravings of Thomas Bewick and the wild, apocalyptic landscapes of John Martin.
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Anderson, John (1775 –?): a woodcut illustrator, apprenticed to Thomas Bewick (1792 – 99), who engraved the illustrations of the first edition of The Farmer's Boy.
Index of People 2009
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Bewick, Thomas (1753 – 1828): with his younger brother John (1760 – 1795), Bewick revived the art of woodcut illustration, with animals, birds and rural scenes his speciality.
Index of People 2009
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This is no flimsy successor to the engineering masterpieces associated with all three rivers: the history of pioneering art in northernmost England embraces the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Ashington painters, the engravings of Thomas Bewick and the wild, apocalyptic landscapes of John Martin.
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Gustav MacLeod, chair of governors, Thomas Bewick special school, Newcastle-u-Tyne, for serv educ.
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