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• namby-pamby — adj. & n. adj. 1 lacking vigour or drive; weak. 2 insipidly pretty or sentimental. n. (pl. ies) 1 a namby pamby person. 2 namby pamby talk. Etymology: fanciful formulation on name of Ambrose Philips, Engl. pastoral writer d. 1749 …   Useful english dictionary

• namby-pamby — derogatory adjective lacking courage or vigour; feeble. noun (plural namby pambies) a namby pamby person. Origin C18: based on the given name of Ambrose Philips, an English writer whose pastorals were ridiculed as insipid …   English new terms dictionary

• Henry Carey (writer) — Henry Carey (c. August 26, 1687 ndash; October 5, 1743), was an English poet, dramatist and song writer. He is remembered as an anti Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely… …   Wikipedia

• James Russell Lowell — Infobox Writer name = James Russell Lowell caption = James Russell Lowell circa 1855 birthdate = birth date|1819|2|22|mf=y birthplace = Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States deathdate = death date and age|1891|08|12|1819|02|22 deathplace =… …   Wikipedia

• Maria Edgeworth — Maria Edgeworth, ca. 1841 Born 1 January 1768(1768 01 01) Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England Died …   Wikipedia

• 1713 in literature — The year 1713 in literature involved some significant events.Events* Scriblerus Club is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, Robert Harley, and Henry St. John. They meet at John Arbuthnot s house. *… …   Wikipedia

• Peggy Mitchell — Infobox EastEnders character 2 caption=Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchell character name=Peggy Mitchell actor name=Jo Warne (1991) Barbara Windsor (1994 mdash;) years=1991, 1994–2003, 2004, 2005 mdash; first=30 April 1991 classification=Present;… …   Wikipedia

• Ambrose Philips — Ambrose Philips, (1674 ndash; 18 June 1749), was an English poet.He was born in Shropshire of a Leicestershire family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John s College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1699. He seems to have… …   Wikipedia

• 1725 in literature — The year 1725 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events*Émilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent Claude du Chastellet. *Death of Peter the Great of Russia. *Charles Killigrew dies, after 48 years in the office of the… …   Wikipedia

• Augustan literature — is a style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century, ending in the 1740s with the deaths of Pope and Swift (1744 and 1745, respectively). It is a literary… …   Wikipedia

• Eye for an Eye (1996 film) — Infobox Film name = Eye for an Eye caption = Eye for an Eye film poster director = John Schlesinger producer = Michael I. Levy Michael Polaire Kathryn Knowlton (associate) writer = Novel Erika Holzer Screenplay Amanda Silver Rick Jaffa narrator …   Wikipedia