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Letter to Samuel Crisp (1775) [ People / Practices ]
… Brudenal was going with her, but as she looked very soft & good Natured, I ventured to ask her to favour us with another song; & though her Cloak was on, she was so obliging as to return. She sung much better than at first, &, for all Mr …
Correspondence | Music | Assemblies
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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… and gloomy walks, or crowd together upon the wet gravel, without any other cover than the cope of Heaven, listening to a song, which one half of them cannot possibly hear, how can I help supposing they are actually possessed by a spirit, more …
Fiction | Towns | Correspondence
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
Art | Collecting | Commerce | Conversation | Correspondence | Exhibitions | Friendship | Patronage | Poetry | Salons
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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles; gives suppers twice a week; has everything new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds …
Correspondence | France | Friendship | Salons
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Periodicals [ Print culture ]
… proceed to a detailed and scholarly reflection on a particular linguistic phenomenon while integrating various poems, songs, or word plays. In this sense, the periodical creates a virtual space in which can be expressed different practices …
Conversation | Correspondence | News | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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