• Henry Peacham may refer to: Henry Peacham (born 1546) (1546–1634), English clergyman and writer Henry Peacham (born 1578) (1578– in or after 1644), his...
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    Henry Peacham (1546–1634), sometimes called Henry Peacham the Elder, was an English clergyman, best known for his treatise on rhetoric entitled The Garden...
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    Henry Peacham (born 1578, d. in or after 1644) was an English poet and writer, known today primarily for his book, The Compleat Gentleman, first printed...
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  • Peacham is a town in the U.S. state of Vermont Peacham may also refer to: Henry Peacham (born 1546), was an English curate, best known for his treatise...
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    English. The word palindrome was introduced by English poet and writer Henry Peacham in 1638. The concept of a palindrome can be dated to the 3rd-century...
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    in the 1954 film Journey to Italy along with the Farnese Hercules. Henry Peacham, in The Compleat Gentleman, says that it "out-strippeth all other Statues...
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    Melanchthonis. In Erasmi Roterdami libellum De duplici copia. Paris, 1542. Henry Peacham, The garden of eloquence: conteyning the figures of grammar and rhetorick...
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    scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech. Henry Peacham, for example, in his The Garden of Eloquence (1577), enumerated 184...
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    created gossip about their relationship. An emblem produced by engraver Henry Peacham may secretly ridicule Preston for the way in which he gained his honours...
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  • The Arte of English Poesie. 1589. Kent State University Press, 1988. Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence. 1593. As of this edit, this article uses content...
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  • the persuasion of his friends, nor the love of his country. [sic]" (Henry Peacham) Glossary of rhetorical terms Figure of speech Rhetoric Hypozeuxis Antanaclasis...
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  • opinion or aphorism"). A gnome was defined by the Elizabethan critic Henry Peacham as "a saying pertaining to the manners and common practices of men,...
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    configurations before the nineteenth century. Figures such as John Hoskyns, Henry Peacham, John Sandford, and John Taylor lived in the early seventeenth century...
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    The Peacham drawing, or 'Longleat manuscript', is the only surviving contemporary Shakespearean illustration, now in the library of the Marquess of Bath...
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  • Holinshed's Chronicles, Richard Hakluyt's Voyages and the rhetorical works of Henry Peacham and Thomas Wilson, among other primary sources. Several reference works...
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    classified into various types and subtypes. One Renaissance writer, Henry Peacham, enumerated 184 different figures of speech, but it could be argued...
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  • Hunter conjectured that this collection might have been the work of Henry Peacham, but the internal evidence is convincingly in favour of Parrot's authorship...
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    Commonwealth athlete. Commonwealth Gold Medalist (hammer) 1962, 1966, 1970. Henry Peacham, a writer, was an assistant master at the school in the early 17th century...
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  • Edmund Peacham, or Edmond Peacham, (died 1616) was an English clergyman and traitor. Peacham was instituted to the rectory of Hinton St. George, Somerset...
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    Tamia, included Peake on a list of the best English artists. In 1612, Henry Peacham wrote in The Gentleman's Exercise that his "good friend Mr Peake", along...
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    references to a mysterious "Master Bold". In The Compleat Gentleman (1622) Henry Peacham (1576–1643) praised Byrd in lavish terms as a composer of sacred music:...
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    ermine in her portrait, Lady with an Ermine, by Leonardo da Vinci. Henry Peacham's Emblem 75, which depicts an ermine being pursued by a hunter and two...
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  • (Equality of Men and Women) Richard Hawkins – Voiage into the South Sea Henry Peacham – The Compleat Gentleman Giambattista Andreini – The Centaur (publication...
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    In 1622 Henry Peacham wrote, "for delicious aires and sweet invention in madrigals, Luca Marenzio excelleth all others." This quote by Peacham illustrates...
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  • Kent. London. p. 316. Peacham, Henry (1622). The Compleat Gentleman. London. p. 51. Vergil, Polydore (1844). Ellis, Sir Henry (ed.). Three Books of Polydore...
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    the court of Charles I, where his main rival was Francesco Fanelli. Henry Peacham was informed that Le Sueur was a pupil of Giambologna in Florence. Though...
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  • the work and associate Wroth with the Sidney family's literary canon. Henry Peacham, in the 1622 The Compleat Gentleman, names her “an inheretrix of the...
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    Priory Cartulary and Charters: Part 2, Boydell & Brewer (1994), p. 31 Henry Peacham: The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary...
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  • catalogue of figures of speech, in the tradition of Richard Sherry, Henry Peacham, Abraham Fraunce and Angel Day. Since language is inherently artificial...
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  • playwright David Peace (born 1967), novelist Henry Peacham the Elder (1546–1634), rhetorician and cleric Henry Peacham the Younger (c. 1573 – c. 1643), poet...
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