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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… making handsome entertainments. He was glad to receive a friend at dinner in a family way; or a neighbour to drink tea: but the expence of entertainments — the loss of time they occasioned, which in large mixed companies is seldom made … words, scholarly education is thus perceived as the means to learn social life and must be understood by young children. Teaching how to live together in society was one of the main concerns of the headmaster in his school at Cheam. In order … sociabilité: résistances et résilience (Paris : Le Manuscrit, 2017). Barbier, C. P., William Gilpin: His Drawings, Teachings, and Theory of the Picturesque (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963). Gilpin, William, Memoirs of Dr. …
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The Auction (1778) [ People ]
… her soul a prey to sad affright, At morning's dawn dispell'd her tort'ring fears, And for a few short hours dried up her tears. Now gaudy Fancy, with her painted Train Of antic Visions, sported o'er her brain, And scatter'd airy pleasures as … glossy whiteness, gay with streaky gold; Sighs, that in Gr---n-street no longer she Can idly dawdle o'er her morning's tea, And glean the new-born scandal of the Town, As proud of other's follies as her own . In vain the attending Ministers … an uninteresting scene to me! “No gentle whisper from the gazing throng, “Gave sweet importance as I pass'd along: “Instead of praises wheresoe'er we came, “Continued censure hung upon our name. “Around the Fair the youthful Nobles bow'd; …
Women | Beauty | Leisure
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The New Bath Guide (1766) [ Practices / Places / People ]
… Maid By Man, by perfidious Man is betray'd; Taught Charity's Hand to relieve the distrest, With tender Compassion his Tears have exprest: But alas! He is gone, and the City can tell How in Years and in Glory lamented he sell; Him mourn'd … did she faint, when she heard of the News; Six Days did she weep, and all Comfort refuse: But STEPHEN, no Sorrow, no Tears can recall!— So she hallows the Seventh, and comes to the Ball. For Music, sweet Music, has Charms to controul, And …
Beauty
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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… wait upon the storms: of their approach Sagacious, into sheltering coves he drives His flock, and thither from the homestead bears A toilsome burden up the craggy ways, And deals it out, their regular nourishment Strewn on the frozen snow. … with Phyllis in the midst— Was, for the purposes of kind, a man With the most common; husband, father; learned, Could teach, admonish; suffered with the rest From vice and folly, wretchedness and fear; Of this I little saw, cared less for … fact was caught at greedily, and there She must be visitant the whole year through, Wetting the turf with never-ending tears. Through quaint obliquities I might pursue These cravings; when the fox-glove, one by one, Upwards through every …
Poetry | Friendship | Beauty
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