Anthology

1600-1700

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).

Thomas Hobbes, Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society (1651), "De Cive", chap. 1.

Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1662/63).

Henry Oldenburg, Philosophical  Transactions, vol. 1 (6 March 1664/5).

Lyonell Beacher, Wonders if not miracles (1665), p. 5-8.

Samuel Pepys,  The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1667).

Anon., The Character of a Coffee-House (1673).

Katherine Philips, Heartfelt Words for a Friend (1678).

Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life And Writings of John Evelyn (1696).

The London-Spy Compleat (1699).*

1701-1710

Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, "Verses, Written for the Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club" (1703)

The London Spy Compleat (1703), part 1.

Verses Written for the Toasting-Glasses of the Kit-Kat Club (1703).

Richard Blackmore, The Kit-Cats (1708).

Ned Ward on Clubs (1709).

Ned Ward on the Kit-Cat Club (1709).

The Female Tatler 9 (25-27 July 1709).

Joseph Addison, "On The Lady Manchester" (b. 1719).

1711-1720

Jonathan Swift, A Description of a City Shower (1711).

The Spectator, no. 10 (12 March 1711) by Joseph Addison.

The Spectator, no. 11 (13 March 1711) by Richard Steele.

The Spectator, no. 49 (26 April  1711) by Richard Steele.

The Spectator, no. 68 (18 May 1711), by Joseph Addison.

The Spectator, no. 69 (19 May 1711) by Joseph Addison.

The Spectator, no. 454 (11 August 11 1712), by Richard Steele.

Lord Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), "The Moralists", Part 1, Section 1.

The Spectator, no. 383 (20 May 1712) by Joseph Addison.

The Spectator, no. 433 (17 July 1712) by Joseph Addison.

Peter Motteux, A Poem upon Tea (1712).*

Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712).*

Jonathan Swift, Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (c. 1713).

Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (1714), lines 197-304.

Richard Baxter, The Signs and Causes of Melancholy (1716).*

John Gay, Walking the Streets of London (1716), book 1, lines 1-82.

Thomas Brown, Works Serious and Comical, 1720, vol. 3, p. 44-45 ("The Walks").*

1721-1730

Daniel Defoe, The Fortunate Mistress [Roxana] (1724), p. 210-216.

Mary Astell's Preface to Lady Mary Montagu’s letters (1724).

Peter Shaw, The Juice of the Grape (1724).*

Daniel Defoe on races (1724).

Francis Nichols, The British compendium (1725), p. iv-viii.

Timothy Greated, An Essay on Friendship (1726).*

Nicholas Robinson, A New System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy (1729).*

1731-1740

The Gentleman's Magazine, no. 58 (11 February 1731), pp. 56-57 (‘Grub Street Journal‘).*

The Gentleman's Magazine, no. 155 (25 September 1731), pp. 388-89 (‘Of Dress and Modesty‘).*

The Gentleman's Magazine, II, n°18 (June 1732), p. 820 ('Spring Gardens').

James Forrester, The Polite Philosopher (1734).*

Gilbert Burnet, History of my own time (1734).*

David Hume, "Of The Love of Fame" (1734).

Erasmus Jones, "Rules for walking the Streets and other Publick Places" (1737).*

The Scots Magazine, July 1739, p. 363 (‘An Evening at Vaux-hall’).

1741-1750

Henry Fielding,  Jonathan Wild The Great, book 3, chapter 14.

John Wesley, The Nature, Design, and General Rules, of the United Societies (1743).

David Fordyce, Dialogues Concerning Education (1745).*

Taylor in The London Tradesman (1747).*

Letter from Mme de Staal to  la marquise Du Deffand, (15 August 1747).*

David Hume “Of National Characters” (1748).

Samuel Richardson, Clarissa  (1748), Letter LV.

Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1748), iii, p. 42-4.

Francis Hutcheson, Reflections upon Laughter (1750).

1751-1760

Letter from Elie Fréron to D'Hemery (1753).*

The Connoisseur, no. 82 (Thursday, August 21, 1755).*

William Cowper , 'On conversation', The Connoisseur no.138 (16 September 1756).

Horace Walpole, Letter to Conway, Thursday 12 February 1756.

Denis Diderot, “Entretiens sur le Fils Naturelˮ (1757).

David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste (1757).

White Conduit House by William Woty (1760)

1761-1770

Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Richard Nash (1762).

Voltaire, Letter to D'Argental (1762).*

Elizabeth Montagu, Letter to The Chronicle (December 1762).

The Public Advertiser, volume 6, issue 8882 (22  Apr. 1763).*

Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide (1766), pp. 70-80 ("Letter XI. A Description of the Ball, with an Episode on Beau Nash").

Horace Walpole, Letter to Thomas Gray, 25 January 1766.

Royal Academy Instrument of Foundation (1768).

Ranelagh Advertisements (May 1769).*

1771-1780

Tobias George Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), vol. 1, p. 126-131 (M. Bramble to Dr. Lewis, London, 20 May).

Tobias George Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), vol. 1, p. 1-11 (M. Bramble to Dr. Lewis, Edinburgh, 8 Aug.).

Madame Du Deffand to Horace Walpole, Sunday 8 August 1773.

Horace Wapole, Strawberry-hill (1774).

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letters of Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield, to his Son (1774), 139 (10 January 1765).*

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letters of Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield, to his Son (1774), 161 (26 August 1766).*

Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol (1774).

Oliver Goldsmith, on female beauty (1774).

Horace Wapole, Strawberry-hill (1774).

Frances Burney, 'A Musical Evening at Dr Burney's' (1775).*

Frances Burney, 'Another Musical Evening at Dr Burney's' (1775)*

James Boswell, Life of Johnson (1776).

David Hume, Essays, Moral, and Political, and Literary, "On Refinement in the Arts" (1741, 1777).

Susan Burney, The Journals and Letters, p. 84-87 (16 November 1779).*

Jean Baptiste  Grosier, Nouvelles de la République des Lettres (1779).*

Choderlos de Laclos,  Les Liaisons dangereuses (1779), letter 81.

James Boswell, "The Hypochondriack, no. XXXIX" (1780).*

Sir Gregory Gigg; or, the city beau (c. 1780).*

1781-1790

The Public Advertiser, no. 14521 (Thursday,  Apr. 26, 1781).*

Peter Beckford, Thoughts upon hunting (London, 1782), p. 214-215.

William Cowper, Conversation (1782).

Minute Book of the Highland Society of London (1784).

Hannah More, The Bas Bleu (1786).

The Times, no. 1284 (6 February 1789).*

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).

Manon Roland, Mémoires de Madame Roland, tome 2, p.10-11.

The Young lady's pocket library, Or Parental monitor (1793), p. 21-22.

The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason (1794).

1791-1852

Choderlos de Laclos, Journal des Amis de la Constitution, 8 février 1791.

Helen Maria Williams, On Theatres and Cafés in revolutionary Paris (1792).

William Gilpin on picturesque beauty (1792).

Helen Maria Williams , Letters on the French Revolution (1790), Letter 23 (on conversation).

Helen Maria Williams, On the Lycée (1792).

William Godwin,  An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), IV, 2.1 ("Duties of a Citizen").

The Sporting Magazine (1793).*

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry (1795).

William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians (1797).*

John Haslam, Observations on Insanity (1798).*

Dorothy Wordsworth, Alfoxden Journal (1798).

Erasmus Darwin, The Progress of Society (c. 1799).

Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journal (1800).

William Wordsworth, Preface of Lyrical Ballads (1800).

Joseph Farington's Diary (1803).*

Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1812).*

Jane Austen, Emma (1815), Ch.III.ii.284-97.

Mme de Genlis, Salon de Mme du Deffand (1825).

Rifa‘a Rafi‘ Al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831), p. 150-154.

Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831), p. 222-223.

Frances Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832), vol. 2, p. 9-18.

Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1836-37), chap. 10.

Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1836-37), chap. 21.

William Wordsworth, Prelude (1850).

Charles Dickens, Household Words (1852).