Capel Lofft was a British lawyer, writer and amateur astronomer. Capel Lofft. Portrait by William Ridley, 1802. Born, (1751-11-14)November 14, 1751
Capel Lofft is an editor, Tory Socialist and High Church Anglican who likes a drink, a pie and a hearty rendition of “God Save the Queen”.
When Keir Starmer said he wanted a mission-led government, I didn't realise that the mission would be 'killing as many old people as possible'. If freezing doesn't get 'em, he has a back up plan now...
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Walking to work, I do love the soft sunlight of autumn, which seems both gentler, producing long, atmospheric shadows, but also somehow more intense, picking out the colours and details of the landscape with greater crispness and clarity.
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The Tories *really* need to rediscover their tradition of scepticism towards US power. There used to be Tories who were aware that the Americans are interested only in advancing their own interests, often at our expense. Now Tories are uniformly embarrassing transatlantic toadies
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Debate with my wife about what the best analogy is for our toddler, who has been very angry this week. Yahweh rebuking a hapless Old Testament King? A Norse God? A minor Greek deity? A French Dauphin? I swear we haven't been sacrificing to Baal or worshipping in the high places
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Is it just me or can writing 'please' sometimes come across as passive aggressive in emails in a way that not writing what is ostensibly a social pleasantry usually doesn't? I sometimes write 'can you do x please' and it feels somehow ruder
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Capel Lofft
Lawyer and writer
Capel Lofft was a British lawyer, writer and amateur astronomer. Wikipedia
Born: November 14, 1751, London, United Kingdom
Died: May 26, 1824 (age 72 years), Moncalieri, Italy
Children: Laura Capel Lofft and Capel Lofft
Spouse: Anne Emlyn (m. 1778)
Partner: Sarah Watson Finch
Books
Laura; or, An anthology of sonnets ... and elegiac quatorzains, English, Italian [&c.] original and translated. With a preface, notes
1813
Aphorisms from Shakespeare: Arranged According to the Plays, &c. with a Preface and Notes: Numerical References to Each Subject; and a Copious Index ...
Observations on Mrs. Macaulay's History of England, (lately Published) from the Revolution to the Resignation of Sir Robert Walpole. In a Letter Addressed to that Lady. By Capel Lofft
1778
Observations on a Late Publication, Entitled "A Dialogue on the Actual State of Parliament,": And Also on a Treatise Entitled "Free Parliaments." With Remarks on Mr. Hatsell's Argument Concerning Annual Elections, and on the Letter to Mr. Sinclair
1783
On the Revival of the Cause of Reform in the Representation of the House of Commons in Parliament
1809
Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of Shakspeare; Resulting From a Collation of the Early Copies, With That of Johnson and Steevens, Ed. by Isaac Reed, Esq., Together With Some Valuable Extracts From the Mss. of the Late Right
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Lofft was associated with movements for constitutional, legal, and religious reform. He was a strong critic of the British government's attempt to re-assert ...
Dec 5, 2023 ˇ Old Capel Lofft here should know, having sadly lost his job at Silverwood Colliery due to the rather terrifying levels of mass immigration.
Abstract: The papers consist of letters, poems by both William Smith and others, newspaper clippings and other material related to Smith's career in the theater ...
Capel Lofft, his first name sometimes written as Capell, was an English lawyer but he supplemented this with occasional forays into writing poetry.
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Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse.
Born in 1892, he went to work in the brickfields at the age of 12. He then served in the Royal Navy, where he was shot at on the beaches of Gallipoli.