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The New Bath Guide (1766) [ Practices / Places / People ]
… Heroes for Dancing renown'd, Were rouz'd by the Fiddle's harmonious Sound; What Goddess shall first be the Theme of my Song, Whose Name the clear AVON may murmur along, And Echo repeat all the Vallies among! Lady TETTATON's Sister, Miss …
Beauty
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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… of the golden age; Not such as, 'mid Arcadian fastnesses Sequestered, handed down among themselves Felicity, in Grecian song renowned; Nor such as, when an adverse fate had driven, From house and home, the courtly band whose fortunes … had seen) Of maids at sunrise bringing in from far Their May-bush, and along the street in flocks Parading with a song of taunting rhymes, Aimed at the laggards slumbering within doors; Had also heard, from those who yet remembered, … linger, and a farewell lustre sheds On the dear mountain-tops where first he rose. Enough of humble arguments; recal, My Song! those high emotions which thy voice Has heretofore made known; that bursting forth Of sympathy, inspiring and …
Poetry | Friendship | Beauty
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The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated (1733) [ Concepts ]
… into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, [80] Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. Slander or poyson dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge be From furious Sappho scarce a … or Budgell, I will rhyme, and print. F. Alas young man! your days can ne'er be long, In flow'r of age you perish for a song! Plums and Directors, Shylock and his Wife, [105] Will club their testers, now, to take your life! P. What? arm'd …
Friendship | Poetry | Law | Politics
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Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles; gives suppers twice a week; has everything new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds … disgraced, and the marine dropped, because it was his favourite object and province. He employed Pondevelle to make a song on the Pompadour: it was clever and bitter, and did not spare even Majesty. This was Maurepas absurd enough to sing …
Correspondence | Women | France | Eloquence
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The Progress of Society (c. 1799) [ Concepts ]
… the planets in your silver zone; With crystal cords to atom atom bind, Link sex to sex, or marry mind to mind; Attend my song!—with rosy lips rehearse And with your silver arrows write my verse!— So shall my lines …
Nature | Poetry
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… in 1763. Image Legend George Stubbs, ‘Zebra’, 1763, Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.617. Satirical prints and songs about the zebra were produced as symbolic representations of the royal political rivalry and corruption. The connection between the Queen and her female zebra was so notable that a humorous allegorical song was composed: ‘What prospect so charming! / What can surpass? / The delicate sight of her M------‘s A--?’. 1 This rude song surviving in a printed broadsheet is an example of the amusement that the Georgians derived from the zebra jokes and …
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To Horace Walpole (1773) [ People ]
… et me plaire infiniment. Voilà ce que j'ai pu débrouiller sur ce que je pense; vous n'en serez pas satisfait ; mais songez à mon âge et à la faiblesse de mon génie. J'ai reçu ces jours-ci une grande lettre de Voltaire, et je n'en suis …
Friendship | Correspondance
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The Nature, Design, and General Rules, of the United Societies (1743) [ Practices / Concepts ]
… and costly Apparel . The taking such Diversions as cannot be used in the Name of the Lord Jesus: The Singing those Songs , or reading those Books , which do not tend to the knowledge or love of God: Softness and needless …
Religion
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Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… & sons, 1870), p. 721-2. At election feasts or drinking sessions, election ballads (available since the Restoration) and songs were produced to catch the mood and enhance sociability (and hence also solidarity) among a group of voters. By the mid-eighteenth century printed collections of such songs, together with poems and other electoral ephemera (such as candidates’ advertisements about electoral meetings), … of one early miscellany, relating to a York election, called his work ‘an Election Opera’, in emulation of recent ‘sing-song plays’ such as Gay’s Beggar’s Opera . 7 Yet such print could also veer into impoliteness and divisiveness. A 1786 …
Corruption | Elections | Impoliteness | Politeness | Politics | Print culture | Violence
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