William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… his wife, played at cards, they conceived they might often be disagreable intruders. (Gilpin, Memoirs , 150) 6 . Rebecca Warner, Original Letters from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, … , which were published in the 1780s and 1790s in several essays of ‘observations’. The satirical accounts that were afterwards made of his travels and cartooned by Rowlandson show the clergyman, Dr Syntax, at several social gatherings, … and quoting some of the clergyman’s previous statements, William Gilpin’s conception of sociability in the afterlife (Warner 158-163): I have been looking back at your old letters, when we first discussed the subject of re-union with …
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