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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
Art | Collecting | Commerce | Conversation | Correspondence | Exhibitions | Friendship | Patronage | Poetry | Salons
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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… Johnson was one of the foremost and most controversial literary men of his age, and a leading figure of intellectual and conversational life in London. He loved the activities of intelligent society, and was instrumental in forming clubs for … intelligent women and had several long-standing and loyal female friends. People > Art and Literature Keywords Celebrity Conversation Depression Clubs Fame Gender Unkempt, ungainly, uncouth, with appallingly gluttonous table manners, aggressively loud, rude and argumentative, a conversational bully, perpetually racked by bodily tics and compulsions, blind in one eye, hard of hearing, and his face …
Celebrity | Conversation | Depression | Clubs | Fame | Gender
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Observations on Insanity (1798) [ Concepts ]
… part of life are feebly recollected, whilst the scenes of youth, and of manhood, remain more strongly impressed. To many conversations of the old incurable patients to which I have listened, the topic has always turned upon the scenes of … state of ideotism. These have, for some years, been the silent and gloomy inhabitants of the Hospital, who have avoided conversation, and sought solitude ; consequently have acquired no new ideas, and time has effaced the impression of those … to be seen‘. … "These have, for some years, been the silent and gloomy inhabitants of the Hospital, who have avoided conversation, and sought solitude..." … Health … Conversation … Confinement … Text taken from John Haslam, Observations …
Health | Conversation | Confinement
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Diary on Art Gossip (1803) [ Practices / People ]
… January 17. — Company I had to dinner. — Sharpe, Fuseli, Daniell, Halls & Smirke. Much conversation abt. Art. — Vasari, Fuseli sd. was a useful writer as His books contain much information of circumstancesand … had been taken out and it then proved that He was not possessed of more than 3 or 400 pounds a year. — January 26. — A conversation abt. different merits of artists. —Northcote sd. Beechey more original than Hoppner but his art is of a … of Barry's has written to Perry abt. him. … "Company I had to dinner. — Sharpe, Fuseli, Daniell, Halls & Smirke. Much conversation ab[ou]t Art." … Conversation … Aesthetics … Diaries … Gossip … Text taken from Joseph Farington, The …
Conversation | Aesthetics | Diaries | Gossip
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… encounter, including both men and women, occasioned by the consumption of tea, and typically characterized as focused on conversation and gossip. Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Practices > Eating & Drinking Keywords Conversation Domesticity Exoticism Furniture Gossip Politeness Public sphere Tea Tea-table The tea-table is an object, an … tea-table’ increasingly referred not only to the piece of furniture, but also the company assembled at tea, the kind of conversation established there, and the social gathering in general. Tea-table as idea The tea-table as an idea is …
Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table
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Public Advertiser (1781) [ Practices ]
… who is an entire Stranger to the first Principles of Religion ? People used formerly to meet together for the Sake of Conversation ; but ever since the Card Table has been in Fashion, all the Pleasures of Speech have been suppressed, and a … our Friends or ourselves, several noble Hints were thrown out, which might be of Service to Mankind in general; but the Conversation which is engrossed for Hours upon playing alone, Basto, Ponto, Manille, Matts, and Fish, can afford no … meet with your Approbation, and find a Place in the Public Advertiser. A. B. … "the Conversation which is engrossed for Hours upon playing alone, Basto, Ponto, Manille, Matts, and Fish, can afford no …
Gaming | Conversation | Beauty
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Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]
Conflict | Conversation | Diaries | Notebook | Romanticism
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Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… There was ample room, figuratively at least, for sociability, since music-making was only part of the entertainment, and conversation also took up a fair amount of time. As in the Bluestocking salons, members of the aristocracy freely mixed … footing with the men. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Art Audience Bluestockings Conversation Music Among those who visited the Sunday evening musical parties at the Burneys’ on a more or less regular … was generally two-fold: first, musical performances were enjoyed by at least some parts of the audience and afterwards conversation followed, facilitating sociability ( The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, I, xxi-xxii). In his …
Art | Audience | Bluestockings | Conversation | Music
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