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Brewer's: Boarding School

I am going to boarding school. Going to prison to be taught good behaviour. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BoardsBoard School (A) A B C D E F G H I…

Brewer's: Bolognese School

There were three periods to the Bolognese School in painting- the Early, the Roman, and the Eclectic. The first was founded by Marco Zoppo, in the fifteenth century, and its best exponent…

Brewer's: Angel of the Schools.

St. Thomas Aquinas. (See Angelic Doctor.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AngelsAngel A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…

Brewer's: Romantic School

The name assumed, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, by a number of young poets and critics in Germany, who wished to limit poetry and art to romance. Some twenty-five years later…

Brewer's: Pyrrhonian School

(The). The sceptical platform founded by Pyrrho. (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PyrrhonismPyrrho A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…

Brewer's: Spasmodic School

A name applied by Professor Aytoun to certain authors of the nineteenth century, whose writings are distinguished by spasmodic or forced conceits. Of this school the most noted are Carlyle…

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Director:Hart BochnerWriters:David Zucker, Robert LoCash and Pat ProftDirector of Photography:Vernon LaytonEditor:James R. SymonsMusic:Ira NewbornProduction Designer:Dennis…

Brewer's: Flemish School

A school of painting established by the brothers Van Eyck, in the fifteenth century. The chief early masters were Memling, Weyden, Matsys, Mabus, and Moro. Of the second period, Rubens and…

Brewer's: Fleshly School

(The). A class of “realistic” British poets, such as Swinburne, Rossetti, Morris, etc. So called by Thomas Maitland [R. Buchanan] in the Contemporary Review. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

Brewer's: Megarian School

A philosophical school, founded by Euclid, a native of Megara, and disciple of Socrates. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MegariansMeg Merrilies A B C D E…