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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of Vaux Hall Gardens (1751). Victoria and Albert Museum. Abstract Vauxhall was one of the major pleasure gardens in London from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Its architecture and spatial organization … ranging from open spaces and cultural venues to more intimate structures. It became one of the major pleasure gardens in London from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Soon after the opening, the essayist John … known as ‘ Vauxhall ‘ though it officially took the name only in 1785. This new garden was more distant from central London, in the rural suburb of Lambeth to the South, on the right bank of the Thames which was outside London: it was …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… in the evening which could easily extend on to nighttime. The most famous pleasure gardens of the era were located in London ( Vauxhall , on the South Bank, or Ranelagh , in Chelsea), with other smaller but also frequently visited venues … Burney, Smollet). 3 . Hannah Greig, ‘’All Together and All Distinct’: Public Sociability and Social Exclusivity in London’s Pleasure Gardens 1740-1800’, Journal of British Studies (51, January 2012), p. 51. 4 . see Jonathan Conlin, ‘Vauxhall Revisited: The Afterlife of a London Pleasure Garden, 1770–1859’ Journal of British Studies (vol. 45, No. 4, October 2006), p. 718-743. Prints like the …
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To the Viscountess Andover (16 May 1769) [ People ]
… loss of Almacks, Ranelagh, &c., but that as soon as their beauties fade, she will return to the sprightly diversions of London and her friends there. I beg my best compliments to her. The Duchess's love, and Miss Dewes’s respects attend dear … loss of Almacks, Ranelagh, &c., but that as soon as their beauties fade, she will return to the sprightly diversions of London and her friends there." … Nature … Manuscript in New Haven, CN., Beinecke Library, Osborn Files 4258. Printed in The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Delany (London: Bentley, 1861), II.1, p. 209. … To the Viscountess Andover (16 May 1769) …
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Peregrine Pickle (1751) [ Places ]
… that the English gentlemen would frankly and candidly declare, whether his cabinet, or that of Mynheer Sloane, at London, was the most valuable. When this request was signified in English to the company, the painter instantly … pinned upon paper." … Nature … Travel … Fiction … Curiosity … Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (London: D. Wilson, 1751), chapter 64. Full text from Gutenberg project. … Peregrine Pickle (1751) …
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On Picturesque Beauty, 1792 [ Concepts ]
… taken from William Gilpin, Three essays : on picturesque beauty, on picturesque travel and on sketching landscape . London: R. Blamire, in the STRAND, 1792, p. i-iii. Transcribed by A. Kerhervé. Full text here . … On Picturesque Beauty, …
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Of Other Laws of Nature (1651) [ Concepts ]
… Nature, consisteth the Fountain and Originall of JUSTICE." … Nature … Social Contract … Law … Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1651. Text based on Pelican Classics …
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… central to Keats’s life; his poetry and letters attest to a vitally social existence, and to the lasting influence of London literary coteries on his development as a poet and thinker. People > Art and Literature Keywords Correspondence … a vibrant sense of the intellectual crosscurrents, as well as the private prejudices and tensions, which characterized London literary life in the Regency period. Keats was not always known for such worldliness. Indeed, during his lifetime, … and poetic. 4 . From ‘Sleep and Poetry’ (ll. 246-47), in Keats’s Poetry and Prose, ed. Jeffrey N. Cox (New-York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009), p. 64 If the poems of Keats’s 1817 volume explicitly attest to his formative …
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