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Letter to Samuel Crisp (1775) [ People / Practices ]
… a Conversation on the subject, & told him, I only hated them, because they made me, & such as me look so very insignificant. You may be sure his gallantry would by no means subscribe to this speech, which was followed by the usual style of …
Correspondence | Music | Assemblies
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The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… Skirt, and Pockets within two Inches of the Bottom, as the most proper Fashion for his Business; and for all ’tis so scanty, he makes it serve him for a Cloak , with which it covers abundance of Shame , and a great deal of Knavery . … the dangers and difficulties we have run thro’; at this rate, Wounds who the Devil wou’d be a Soldier? As such sort of Cant he is excellent, and utters himself with as little Hesitation, and as great Grace as a Town-Stallion when he … at these following Qualifications; He can out-flatter a Poet , out-huff a Bully , out-wrangle a Lawyer , out-cant a Puritan , out-cringe a Beau , out-face Truth , and out-lie the Devil . The rest that you see were a kind of …
Taverns | Dining
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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… of a tin cascade; in a fourth, a gloomy cave of a circular form, like a sepulchral vault half lighted; in a fifth, a scanty flip of grass-plat, that would not afford pasture sufficient for an ass’s colt. The walks, which nature seems to …
Fiction | Towns | Correspondence
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Aphra Behn [ Art and Literature ]
… fait référence à la jeune Aphra Behn, fille d’un barbier, qui vivait à Wye dans le Kent. Née Aphra Johnston près de Canterbury, Aphra Behn fut baptisée le 14 décembre 1640. Mais peu de documents nous permettent de connaître ses premières …
Commerce | Espionage | Salons | Slavery | Theatre
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Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
Commerce | Patronage | Politics | Satire | Sex
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… Compagnie (VOC) , and later, in rapidly increasing quantities imported by the English East India Company (EIC) from Canton and other factory ports in China. 1 1 . Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger, Empire of Tea … Coffee-houses’. 4 In this list, Addison identified the tea-table as the equal, and most innovative, of the other significant institutions that characterized public culture in the period, such as coffeehouses and clubs. Accordingly Addison …
Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
Art | Collecting | Commerce | Conversation | Correspondence | Exhibitions | Friendship | Patronage | Poetry | Salons
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The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… and forms the mind. If high those truths in estimation, Whose search is crown'd with demonstration; To these assign no scanty praise, Our taste which clear, our views which raise. For grant that mathematic truth Best balances the mind of …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
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