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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]

… contemporaries. People > Art and Literature Keywords poetry Friendship Scriblerus Club Correspondence Literary celebrity Enmity Both in financial terms and in the scale of his cultural influence, Alexander Pope was one of the most successful … understood by his contemporaries. … poetry … Friendship … Scriblerus Club … Correspondence … Literary celebrity … Enmity … Alexander Pope …

Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]

… of everyday life was identifying friends from enemies. Few periodicals or treatises explicitly dealt with the subject of enmity, but it was always a central feature of the literature on friendship from this period, which contained abundant … friendships. Yet the candour and honesty of enemies had important social utilities. Probing the association between enmity and friendship opens up discussion about the tensions inherent in the sociability described, performed, and … that men and women faced in their everyday lives was identifying a friend from an enemy. In fact, friendship and enmity were far from simple binaries: they were closely connected. Theorists and writers spoke of both the benefits and …

Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]

… occurred when accidental opposite opinions have met in private houses’. 4  Lord Sydney similarly laid the blame for the enmity to women’s political involvement: ‘We have seen no times when it has been so necessary to separate parties in …

Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]

… acting of Richard III in October 1741.   Macklin and Garrick Macklin’s friendship with Garrick turned to bitter enmity. In 1773, Garrick and Macklin led a riot of Drury Lane’s actors against the manager Charles Fleetwood, who had not …

David Hume [ Philosophy ]

… of command of temper, of an open, social, and cheerful humour, capable of attachment, but little susceptible of enmity, and of great moderation in all my passions. Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my …