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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… Brewer, David A., 'Making Hogarth Heritage', Representations (vol. 71, n o 1, 2000), p. 21-63. Burnett, John, Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (London and New York: Routledge, 1999). Grigsby, Leslie B., … … Brewer, David A., 'Making Hogarth Heritage', Representations (vol. 71, n o 1, 2000), p. 21-63. Burnett, John, Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (London and New York: Routledge, 1999). Grigsby, Leslie B., …
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The Secret History of Clubs, 1709 [ Practices / Places ]
… a reserv'd Modesty, thro the fear of forfeiting, perhaps, a Six-Penny Trifle, a Punishment not adequate to those sinful Pleasures they are liable to be tempted to. Therefore, is it not equally senseless for a Body of Men to hold their …
Clubs | Drinking
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The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… giving up his estate. The next person, whom you ought to beware of, is a DRUNKARD; one that takes an unaccountable pleasure in sapping his constitution, and drowning his understanding. He constantly goes senseless to bed, and rises … pests of society. They are often of a mischievous disposition, and by their calumnies and false suggestions take a pleasure in setting the most intimate friends at variance. But if they only deal in harmless and improbable lies, their …
Drinking | Women | Rake | Gaming | Gentleman
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A Poem upon Tea (1712) [ Practices ]
… And Tea, whose Fame shou'd o’er all Plants be rais'd. None, says the God, shall with that Tree compare; Health, Vigour, Pleasure bloom forever there Sense for the Learn'd, and Beauty for the Fair. Tea both imparts: For, while it cheers the … chears the drooping Old, Like Healing Tea, the only Liquid Gold! Improv'd by Age, see how it Age improves, And adds new Pleasure, and old Pain removes! So Man, refining at his Youth's Expence, Grows ripe for Thought, and mellows into Sense. …
Tea | Drinking | Beauty | Charm
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The Juice of the Grape (1724) [ Practices ]
… three quarters of a Year after, he came to me with a Smile, and told me that his Buboes were cured with all the Ease and Pleasure imaginable; and he thank’d God he was now a sound Man. … "... you need only live well, feed high, take a hearty …
Drinking | Medicine | Melancholy
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