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Characteristicks, of men, manners, opinions, times, 1711 [ ]
… belong'd to handle these Subjects, have done it in such a manner as to put the better Sort out of countenance with the Undertaking. The appropriating this Concern to mere Scholasticks, has brought their Fashion and Air into the … Helps of Learning and sound Reason. Even the Fair Sex, in whose favour we pretend to make this Condescension, may with reason despise us for it, and laugh at us for aiming at their peculiar Softness. 'Tis no Compliment to them, to … may pretend to, 'tis more a Disfigurement than any real Refinement of Discourse, to render it thus delicate. No Work of Wit can be esteem'd perfect without that Style. Strength and Boldness of Hand, which gives it Body and Proportions. A …
Conversation | Beauty
Anthology
Diary on Art Gossip (1803) [ Practices / People ]
Conversation | Aesthetics | Diaries | Gossip
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On Conversation (1790) [ Practices ]
… pleasure that sheds the most delicious flowers which grow on the path of life; but in France she covers the whole way with roses, and the traveller can scarcely mark its ruggedness. Happy are a people, so fond of talking as the French, in … conversation. Then turn of expression is a dress that hangs so gracefully on gay ideas, that you are apt to suppose that wit, a quality parsimoniously distributed in other countries, is in France as common as the gift of speech. Perhaps that … ingenuity must we allow to a people who have formed a language, of which the common-place phrases give you the idea of wit! … "In every country it is social pleasure that sheds the most delicious flowers which grow on the path of life; but …
France | Conversation
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Public Advertiser (1781) [ Practices ]
… the Use of those Faculties, which enobles us in the Scale of Creation. If we were to ask wherher we were endowed with an immortal Soul, to spend Hours together in beholding a few Spots upon a Piece of Pasteboard, the Question would be … not Iess than that which is occasioned by the Loss of a Crown; and if Lucre alone possesses the Boson, Thorns grow there without Restraint. The vivid Glow which plays upon the Face of Beauty, and calls a divine Lustre on the humane Face, is … its proving too tedious; but shall conclude, though at the same Time indulge a pleasing Hope, that this Letter will meet with your Approbation, and find a Place in the Public Advertiser. A. B. … "the …
Gaming | Conversation | Beauty
Anthology
Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… century. There was no vocabulary for loneliness in this period, but solitude was a state often associated with melancholy and thus frequently employed in a negative sense. A range of eighteenth-century writers warned about the … employed in a negative sense. It denoted a place or condition and thus a physical state of isolation that stood at odds with the ideal of civilisation that brought with it the benefits of mutual support and protection. The distinct word ‘lonely’ appeared in the English language only …
Conversation | Emotions | Gender | Melancholy | Politeness | Privacy | Religion
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White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… to walk a fine line between recommending honesty towards oneself and politeness towards others, while novelists grappled with their characters’ attempts to attain or reject a sociable sincerity that proved to be elusive. Practices > Reading & … of lies, although he accepted that there were exceptions: he excluded ‘jocose lies’ that are self-evident and uttered without any intention to deceive from his list of lies. White lies, however, are arguably meant to deceive, if for … indicating a story that was not strictly accurate rather than a deception. This, however, led him into trouble with those he deeply offended by heedlessly accusing them of having told a lie, however unintentional the offence. 4 At …
Conversation | Falsehood | Lies | Politeness
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Friendship | Women
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