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The Juice of the Grape (1724) [ Practices ]
… of Using It, as Well for Prevention as Cure. With a Word of Advice to the Vintners . Printed for W. Lewis, under Tom's Coffee-House, Covent-Garden (London), 1724, p. 47-49. Transcription by Noémie Vandenborre (UBO). Full book in ECCO. … The …
Drinking | Medicine | Melancholy
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
Morality | Periodicals | Politeness | Print culture | Politics | Slavery | Theatre | Wit | Women
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Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… crucial significance in various social circles could be best explained by the connections to other public places such as coffee-houses, taverns, markets and many cultural institutions (clubs, libraries, antiquarian circles). Most printers and … In a stimulating chapter on the ‘sites of Natural Knowledge’, Adrian Johns reminded us of the complementarity between coffee houses and print shops in Early-Modern Europe: ‘Early coffee-houses had often abutted onto booksellers’ shops, and …
Books | Commerce | Reading
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… periodical essay While seventeenth-century English newspapers and the political press were largely associated with male coffeehouse sociability – customers could read the papers for the price of a cup of coffee – the leisure press which emerged after 1689 in the form of the periodical essay and prevailed in the first half …
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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
Academies | Censorship | Community | Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Networks | Republic of Letters
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Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
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Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]
… and efforts to clean up taverns in the mid-century, resulting in large, elegant metropolitan taverns, which could house large balls, public meetings, and political dinners. A description of the contested reputation of taverns in the … provided important locations for middle-class male convivial gathering in eighteenth-century cities, emerging alongside coffeehouses as important multi-use venues for a variety of forms of sociability. Distinct from alehouses, which … to the Present, European Perspectives (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), p. 473. Unlike the relatively recent coffee and chocolate houses, taverns had a much longer history, dating back to Roman times, so their origins are harder …
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A Description of a City Shower (1711) [ Places ]
… save in wine. A coming shower your shooting corns presage, Old aches throb, your hollow tooth will rage: Sauntering in coffee-house is Dulman seen; He damns the climate, and complains of spleen. Meanwhile the South, rising with dabbled wings, A …
Streets
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Melancholy (1780) [ Concepts ]
… they will treat him with a kindly indulgence. He is encouraged by the compliments which an unknown reader at the London Coffee-house has been pleased to pay him in this Magazine for last month. He may hope that there are many such readers. Instead …
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