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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Müller, ‘Vauxhall Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the garden, and the Orchestra, with the Musick playing’, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1755. Abstract Pleasure gardens were a type of eighteenth-century public … – from food and drink, through art appreciation, music shows, to bowling, fireworks and even animal fights – but also played an active role in activities and trends like gossip and fashion, reflecting varied cultural phenomena such as taste, companionship or being on display. Providing amusement for those willing to pay for it, they operated on a seasonal basis, with the height of their …
Art | Conversation | Entertainement | Fashion | Gardens | Music | Nature | Taste
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
Entertainement | Exhibitions | Gothic | Music | Nature | Pleasure gardens
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Grasmere Journal (1800) [ Practices / People ]
… showery and gusty, morning; for often the sun shines. Thomas Ashburner could not go to Keswick. Read a part of Lamb's Play. The language is often very beautiful, but too imitative in particular phrases, words, etc. The characters, except …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… gave offense to his neighbours by his refusal. Refusing all, he disobliged none. Indeed as neither he, nor his wife, played at cards, they conceived they might often be disagreable intruders. (Gilpin, Memoirs , 150) 6 . Rebecca Warner, …
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