Poer

Could Spring Heeled Jack have some connection with the Libertine movement founded by Henry de la Poer Beresford, a.k.a. the Mad Marquess, or with the Technologists, a scientific league formed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the eugenicist Francis Galton, the medical genius Florence Nightingale and the great scientist Charles Darwin?

"The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder Michael Dirda 2010

Being a traditional Irish musician myself, I'd also have to add "Fanny Poer" by Turlough O'Carolan.. an instrumental, and "Josefin's Waltz", a traditional Norwegian? tune, here performed by Vasen:

"But it grieves my heart, love/To see you tryin' to be a part of/A world that just don't exist ..." Ann Althouse 2009

We get the same conceptual play on words, as Delapore descends simultaneously into the putrid bowels of his "house" (Exham Priory) and his "house" (the De la Poer lineage).

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

Dario makes his debut with a series of monologues entitled "Poer Nano" ( "poor little thing", an affectionate expression in the Lombard dialect) in the revue "Sette giorni a Milano", where he meets Franca Rame.

Dario Fo - Biography 1998

After studying art and architecture in Milan, Fo took part in radio programmes with a series of monologues Poer Nano

The Nobel Prize for Literature 1997 - Bio-bibliography 1997

They had let him pass slowly by the first covert, so that Bagot might be behind him, and Poer and Shure one on either side before him.

The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984

A distant relative of mine, a descendant, like myself, from Nicholas le Poer, had long ministered to my genealogical proclivities by stories which from my childhood had vaguely haunted and charmed my imagination.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

= Herbert de la Poer =, or Poore (1194-1217), who succeeded him, ruled in a troubled period, when the realm was under the interdict of Pope

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874

Irish Poer or Power, it may be traced to the word _puer_, used in a restricted sense to denote the sons of royal or noble families not yet in possession of their heritage.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874

Stung by his defeats, Richard sent one of his dependent Papworths to Poer

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868