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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]

… entrance now into some magic cave Or palace built by fairies of the rock; Nor could I have been bribed to disenchant The spectacle, by visiting the spot. Thus wilful Fancy, in no hurtful mood, Engrafted far-fetched shapes on feelings bred By …
Poetry  |  Friendship  |  Beauty
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]

… became confounded. Robert Jones has argued that the new thoughts on sociability and femininity were embodied by the ‘spectacle of a virtuous woman’. 5  Likewise, Morag Martin has suggested that ‘the physical and moral nature of …
Aesthetics  |  Beauty  |  Conduct  |  Femininity  |  Manners  |  Women
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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]

… qui sont reçus le dimanche à Bellechasse. Enthousiasmée par la prise de la Bastille, Genlis conduit ses élèves au spectacle de sa démolition 5  et affiche son soutien à la disparition du régime absolutiste, comme en témoigne la …
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Flora Tristan [ Travel / Art and Literature ]

… . L’intrépide voyageuse y trouva des scènes témoignant de la dégénérescence de la civilisation moderne : Le plus grand spectacle pour l’homme c’est l’homme !  – […] À neuf heures et demie, dans tous les théâtres, les places sont à moitié … sortent des loges à chaque instant, car la représentation n’est nullement l’objet de leur attention ; elles viennent au spectacle uniquement pour faire leur métier [sic.] […]. L’air ambiant a quelque chose de délétère dont la poitrine est …
Cosmopolitanism  |  Discrimination  |  France  |  Literature  |  Travel  |  Women
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On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]

… or respect finds none, Save from the subjects of that work alone. The World grown old her deep discernment shows, Claps spectacles on her sagacious nose, Peruses closely the true Christian's face, And finds it a mere mask of sly grimace; …
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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… in Times, Friday 6 February (London, 1789). As fashionable dress became ever more involved with wealth and visual spectacle, it moved further away from the reaches of the lower ranks, and even stretched the pockets of Dukes and …
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Spas [ Health ]

… for display, performance and music pervading the whole town, from the early morning music kiosk to the late outdoor spectacles. In some smaller spas, the theatre became more famous than the spa itself, as was the case for Sadler’s Wells …
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]

… was followed by all of them having lunch together with Sir William (Vigée Le Brun 175). Sir William organized other spectacles during the daytime. Vigé Le Brun and Goethe both relate in their memoirs that Sir William hired young boys to …
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Huguenots in Northern Europe [ Commerce / Religion & Philanthropy ]

… théâtres françaises se produisent dans la ville hanséatique et offrent aux habitants, parfois avec un grand succès, des spectacles divers. 5 5 . Franklin Kopitsch and Ursula Stephan-Kopitsch,’Franzosen in den Hansestädten und in Altona …
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