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  • Two Turner prize winners, Susan Philipsz and Douglas Gordon, live here, and there are a host of other artists including Ceal Floyer, Jonathan Monk, and Tacita Dean, who has been commissioned to create the next Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern.

    British artists flock to set up home in liberating Berlin 2011

  • Floyer would ask her to dance with him, which she could not refuse without sitting still during the ball, nor accept, after the reports she knew to be spread, without seeming to give a public sanction to them.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Floyer; “the very tread of the stage half tempts me to turn actor.”

    Cecilia 2008

  • Floyer, and proceeded to the little room near the entrance to the great one, in order to wait for their carriages.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Floyer, _Unexplored Baluchistan_ (London, 1882); T. T.ornton, _Life of

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • Johnson, writing from Ashbourne to Dr. Brocklesby on July 20, 1784, says: 'I am now looking into Floyer who lived with his asthma to almost his ninetieth year.'

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Floyer, after recommending 'a general method of bleeding and purging 'before the patient uses cold bathing, continues,' I have commonly cured the rickets by dipping children of a year old in the bath every morning; and this wonderful effect has encouraged me to dip four boys at Lichfield in the font at their baptism, and none have suffered any inconvenience by it. '

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • (For mention of Floyer, see ante, p. 42, and post, March 27 and July 20, 1784.)

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • [827] Floyer was the Lichfield physician on whose advice Johnson was

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • I am now looking into Floyer [1094] who lived with his asthma to almost his ninetieth year.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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