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Brewer's: Lake School
(The). The school of poetry introduced by the Lake poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who resided in the Lake district of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and sought inspiration in the…Brewer's: Hedge School
(A). A school kept in the open air, near a hedge. At one time common in Ireland. “These irregular or `hedge schools' are tolerated only in villages where no regular school exists within a…Brewer's: Hippocratean School
A school of medicine, so called from Hippocrates. (See Dogmatic.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hippocrates' SleeveHippocras A B C D E F G H I J…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: Dutch School
of painting is a sort of “pre-Raphaelite” exactness of detail without selection. It is, in fact, photographing exactly what appears before the artist, as faithfully as his art will allow.…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…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…Computers in Public Schools
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