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A Poem upon Tea (1712) [ Practices ]
… by Tables plac'd Adorn the Sides, and tempt the Sight and Taste. Yet more the gay, the lovely Colour courts, The Flavour charms us, but the Taste transports. I drink, and lo the kindly Steams arise, Wine's Vapour flags, and soon subsides and dies. The friendly Spirits brighten mine again, Repel the Brute, and re-inthrone the Man. The rising Charmer with a pleasing Ray Dawns on the Mind, and introduces Day: So its bright Parent with prevailing Light, Recalls … which thy Pow'r inspires ! Blest Juice, assist, while I the Vision draw Which then in Sleep with inward Eyes I saw! Thy Charms alone can equal Thoughts infuse: Be thou my Theme, my Nectar, and my Muse. I saw the Gods and Goddesses above, …
Tea | Drinking | Beauty | Charm
Anthology
Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 [ Practices ]
… (1661–1715) Duchess of St. Albans THE LINE of Vere, so long renowned in arms, Concludes with lustre in St. Albans’ charms; Her conquering eyes have made their race complete; They rose in Valour, and in Beauty set. Duchess of … with more than mortal fire; Likeness of a mother’s face, Blest with more than mortal grace; You with double charms surprise, With his wit, and with her eyes. Lady Mary Churchill Fairest and latest of the … adorers offerings prove who’s most divine, They sacrificed in water, we in wine. Lady Sunderland All Nature’s charms in Sunderland appear, Bright as her eyes, and as her reason clear: Yet still their force, to men …
Toasting | Drinking | Beauty | Charm
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Theatres and Cafés in revolutionary Paris (1792) [ Practices ]
… are at present no less than twenty theatres at Paris, which are well filled every night ; and at most of which you see charming acting. The grace, the sprightliness, the naïveté, the easy natural movements of their comic actors far surpass … electric fire, But strike the eye, and as they strike expire ; Incense too pure a bodied frame to bear, Its fragrance charms the sense, and melts in air." Mademoiselle Clairon, the celebrated French tragic actress, not contented with the …
France | Theatre | Coffeehouses | French Revolution
Anthology
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
Correspondence | Fashion | Fiction | Gambling | Politics | Suicide
Encyclopedia
The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… frigid Beau! Ah! luckless fair, 'Tis not for you that studied air; Ah! not for you that sidelong glance, And all that charming nonchalance; Ah! not for you the three long hours He worshipp'd the Cosmetic powers; That finish'd head which … be, To warm the snows of Rhodope: Too cold to feel, too proud to feign, For him you're wise and fair in vain; In vain to charm him you intend, Self is his object, aim, and end. Chill shade of that affected Peer, Who dreaded Mirth, come safely … spoke! Her potent wand the Circle broke: The social Spirits hover round, And bless the liberated ground. Ask you what charms this gift dispense? 'Tis the strong spell of COMMON SENSE. Away dull Ceremony flew, And with her bore Detraction …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
Anthology
On the Lycée (1792) [ Practices ]
… I am not, however, always occupied by these vast political discussions, but spend a part of every day at the Lycée, a charming institution, where learning seems stripped of its thorns and decorated with flowers, and where the gay and … knowledge in the different sciences they teach, I, in my ignorance, am little qualified to judge. But I can feel the charms of eloquence, and therefore find that chemistry, when taught by Mons. Fourcroy, is the most engaging, the most …
France | Education | Science
Anthology
Gentleman's Magazine on Spring Gardens (1732) [ Places ]
… play, When nature smiles , and all the world is gay ; From Drury's bounds see shining throngs repair With borrow'd charms to breath in sweeter air; From stinking rags, and lofty garret free'd, Lo! Oyster Betty shines in stiff Brocade … handsome cits, Who love new fashions, and who hate the wit, To her they bow'd, then with a desp'rate sigh Says one, Your charming love, or let me dye; To them with thund'ring march a captain comes, ' Surrender there. The cits now …
Gardens | Love
Anthology
On Conversation (1790) [ Practices ]
… mark its ruggedness. Happy are a people, so fond of talking as the French, in possessing a language modelled to all the charming purposes of conversation. Then turn of expression is a dress that hangs so gracefully on gay ideas, that you are … mark its ruggedness. Happy are a people, so fond of talking as the French, in possessing a language modelled to all the charming purposes of conversation." … France … Conversation … Text: Helen Maria Williams , Letters on the French …
France | Conversation
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