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Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (c. 1713) [ Practices ]
… with the several symptoms and circumstances of them; wall enumerate the hardships and injustice they have suffered in court, in parliament, in love, or in law. Others, are more dextrous, and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in … of kingdoms depended on them; and they were usually attended with an humble audience of young students from the inns of court, or the universities; who, at due distance, listened to these oracles, and returned home with great contempt for … obtruding our own knowledge in common discourse, and placing too great a value upon it; by which definition, men of the court, or the army, may be as guilty of pedantry, as a philosopher or a divine; and it is the same vice in women, when …
Conversation | Audience
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Dialogues Concerning Education (1745) [ Concepts / Practices ]
… Society? But it is not so much those common Forms of speaking, which Custom has made universal, that I condemn, as those courtly Strains of Deceit, used by your Sex, to flatter and impose on ours. Simp . I find, Madam, it will be no easy … to ask you, Madam, how it has come about, that you, who have been bred up at and near the Town, and have been often at Court, should be such a sworn Foe to the elegant Forms of polite Life, or to those Ways of Adress, that are in vogue …
Education | Conversation | Gender | Friendship | Children
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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]
Grand Tour | Italy | Assemblies | Conversation | Diplomacy
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On Conversation (1756) [ Concepts ]
… in the street, and paying their compliments with the same volubility of speech, the same grimace and action, as two courtiers on the Thuilleries. I shall not attempt to lay down any particular rules for conversation, but rather point out …
Conversation | Animals | Theatre
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Autobiography, 1784 [ Places / Practices ]
… his scourge. They told him, as I was a Protestant I was of course an infidel, and should be a favourite at the German court which the Emperor kept at Milan. So I was; but one day when some of our Italian eccle- siastics dined with us and …
Grand Tour | Women | Conversation
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Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… appear more frequently in English texts in the later decades of the seventeenth century. Prior to that, words such as ‘courtesy’ or ‘civility’ conveyed ideals of sociability. The rise of the term ‘politeness’ was founded on translations of …
Civility | Conversation | Consumption | Periodicals
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… tea was strongly marked, from its inception, by its association with high status socializing, with women and the royal court, and with the domestic or private sphere. It is also worth noting that all tea consumed in Britain in this period …
Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table
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On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]
… high Above all else, and wonder'd he should die. Ere yet they brought their journey to an end, A stranger join'd them, courteous as a friend, And ask'd them, with a kind engaging air, What their affliction was, and begg'd a share. Inform'd, …
Conversation | Crime
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… air Is Music slumbering on her instrument.’ (‘The Eolian Harp’, PW I, 218) ‘The Eolian Harp’ composed at the time he was courting Sara Fricker reveals the deeply religious impulse which underlay his reformist social aspirations. Coleridge did …
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
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