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Preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s letters (1724) [ People / Practices ]
… be pretended. Let us be better Christians, than to look upon her with an evil eye, only because the giver of all good gifts has entrusted and adorned her with the most excellent talents. Rather let us freely own the superiority, of this …
Women | Travel | Curiosity
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The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… potent wand the Circle broke: The social Spirits hover round, And bless the liberated ground. Ask you what charms this gift dispense? 'Tis the strong spell of COMMON SENSE. Away dull Ceremony flew, And with her bore Detraction too. Nor only …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… Academy was praised by visitors precisely for its adherence to the recommendations of his predecessor. 5 Reynolds’s gift at dealing with children was much praised by his contemporaries. In a drawing depicting the elderly Academician in …
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