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Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… Oxford, in which he warned his readers against the potential decadence of the English language it if were to imitate the French language too much: ‘the French [language] […] appears to be declining by the natural Inconstancy of that People, and the Affectation of some late … That interest in vulgar language and pastimes flourished in the last years of the long eighteenth century, as the French Revolution and its aftermath threatened to redefine British politics and sociability completely. Vic Gattrell has called …
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
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Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… 3 vols. (Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1790), 1, p. xix. In the 1790s, political tensions following the outbreak of the French Revolution began to impinge on the public culture of science in Britain. The government suspected debating and discussion … relations surrounding public experimentation. It seems telling that several commentators likened them to the fervor of revolutionary political change, which threatened to spread through society with equally dramatic results. Priestley and …
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Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… 1884), vol. 1, p. 112. Boscawen’s life was not free from tragedy and loss, and her last years were embittered by the French Revolution and the ensuing wars. 18 During the reign of terror, she reminisced to Lady Chatham that she had met many of … I pass [the Heat] very quietly under the Shade of my Trees, or in cool Rooms, where I may reflect if I please how many french Ladies I entertain’d in them during the past Summers who have now suffer’d & been put to death on the Scaffold. A …
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