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The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… it contains several just and sensible reflections, which may be of use to many of my readers, I have willingly complied with the request of my correspondent in making it the enntertainment of to-day. Dear Sir, As you are now going to the … but to defend one's self. In a word, you will find it a great unhappiness, when you return hither, if you do not bring with you some taste for reading: for a mere country gentleman, who can find no society in books, will have little else to … to fit, as squire of the company, tippling among a parcel of idle wretches, whose understandings are nearly on a level with his dogs and horses. It has been an established maxim, that the world will always form an opinion of persons …
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Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 [ Practices ]
… Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661–1715) Duchess of St. Albans THE LINE of Vere, so long renowned in arms, Concludes with lustre in St. Albans’ charms; Her conquering eyes have made their race complete; They rose in Valour, and in Beauty set. Duchess of Beaufort Offspring of a tuneful sire, Blest with more than mortal fire; Likeness of a mother’s face, Blest with more than mortal grace; You with double charms surprise, With his wit, and with her eyes. Lady …
Toasting | Drinking | Beauty | Charm
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A Poem upon Tea (1712) [ Practices ]
… in Wine to seek a solid Joy; All fierce Enjoyments soon themselves destroy, Wine fires the Fancy to a dangerous height, With smoaky Flam, and with a cloudy Light. From its Excess ev'n Wisdom's self grows mad; For an Excess of Good it self is bad. All Reason's in … the flowing Mud. Tea ev’n the Ills from Coffee sprung repairs, Disclaims its Vices, and its Virtue shares. To bless me with the Juice two Foes conspire, The clearest Water with the purest Fire. Wine's Essence in a Lamp to Fewel turns, …
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Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 (2) [ Practices ]
… LADY CARLISLE. CARLISLE'S name can every Muse inspire; To Carlisle fill the glass, and tune the lyre. With his lov'd bays the god of day shall crown A wit and lustre equal to his own. THE SAME. At once the Sun and Carlisle took their way, To warm the frozen north, … is the cheerful Morn. LADY WHARTON. When Jove to Ida did the gods invite, And in immortal toasting pass'd the night, With more than nectar be the banquet bless'd, For Wharton was the Venus of the feast. … "The bravest hero, and the …
Toasting | Drinking
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On our stay in the city of Marseilles, 1826-1831 [ Practices ]
… It was there that we became aware of the high-quality construction of this country’s buildings, which are filled with gardens, fountains, etc. The first day, almost without out being aware of it, we experienced things that were for the most part strange. They brought a number of French … of every plate they put a glass goblet, a knife, fork and spoon, and on each table there were about two bottles filled with water, a small container with salt and another with pepper. Around the table they then arranged chairs, one for each …
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Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… glasses. Punchbowls came in many materials and prices, varying according to social hierarchy and the type of beverage, with pewter, stoneware and the rougher sort of delftware used for alcoholic beverages, and finer, more modern and … such as William Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Conversation representing a party of drunk gentlemen around a table decked with a decorated punchbowl, flagons and broad-footed glasses. Stem glasses were used for wine drinking, again with considerable variation in price and sophistication. A thick stem foot was ideal for toasting glasses because the …
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… person to sell coffee publicly in England. By 1656, James Farr, had established the Rainbow Coffeehouse in competition with Rosee and soon thereafter many other coffeehouses began to proliferate. By 1663, there were eighty-two coffeehouses … of politeness that they saw in those places. They promoted an ideal whereby coffeehouse conversation should be informed, witty, and wise. 4 While this model of polite coffeehouse sociability remained an ideal, it became an ever more powerful … [BM] Department of Prints and Drawings, Catalogue of English Cartoons and Satirical Prints, 1320–1832 [BM Sat.] 1539; with C. Lamb after G. M. Woodward, ‘A Sudden Thought’ (London: S. W. Fores, 1 Jan. 1804), etching and stipple, (25 × 35.5 …
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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… a range of materials and contained a drink that was accessible to a range of social ranks. These bowls were associated with a particular mode of convivial sociability. A richly symbolic object, the physical qualities of the punchbowl played … drink accessible to a range of social ranks, including those in the middling and elite ranks who might be associated with wine and those in the lower and plebeian ranks who would drink beer. 1 1 . Karen Harvey, ‘Ritual encounters: punch … and a range of ceramics, but increasingly punchbowls were manufactured in ceramic. The quality could vary considerably, with bowls produced in both fine porcelain and creamware, as well as simpler and cheaper earthenware. Whereas ale, wine …
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