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Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… of Monsieur de Nivernois, for you must not believe a syllable of what you read in their novels. It requires the greatest curiosity, or the greatest habitude, to discover the smallest connection between the sexes here. N o familiarity, but … et d'Egmont, they have not yet lost their characters, nor got any. You must not attribute my intimacy with Paris to curiosity alone. An accident unlocked the doors for me. That passe-partout, called the fashion, has made them fly …
Correspondence | Women | France | Eloquence
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Roxana (1724) [ Practices ]
… and with this Turkish slave I bought the rich clothes too. The dress was extraordinary fine indeed, I had bought it as a curiosity, having never seen the like; the robe was a fine Persian or Indian damask, the ground white and the flowers …
Fiction | Masquerade | Beauty | Court | Dance | Gentleman
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Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) [ Concepts ]
… knowledge; to show their wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture. Curiosity allures the wise; vanity the foolish; and pleasure both. Particular clubs and societies are every where formed: …
Commerce | Refinement | Luxury | Charity | Corruption | Democracy | Disorder | Happiness
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Rules for Walking the Streets (1737) [ Places / Practices ]
… Level . To gape into any Dining-Room, or Parlour, where Company is assembled, as one passes along, is a most impertinent Curiosity. Persons of Figure, when they chuse to amble the Publick Streets, should always appear in a Dress suitable to …
Conduct | Conversation | Public sphere
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Humphry Clinker (1771) [ Places ]
… from the city, in the harbour of which I have seen above one hundred ships lying all together. You must know, I had the curiosity to cross the Frith in a passage boat, and stayed two days in Fife, which is remarkably fruitful in corn, and …
Fiction | Scotland | Correspondence | Architecture
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… promoted a recreational message of social inclusiveness leading to a deep transformation of social habits, social curiosity and social interests in Great Britain and all over Europe. As aptly summarised by S. Easterby-Smith, ‘[t]he … menageries (public or private) as objects of fascination and wonder whose aim was to entertain guests and satisfy their curiosity for the animal world. The privileged gentry, the aristocracy, the fashionable and rich metropolitan elite, as …
Animals | Australia | Chinoiserie | Collecting | Commerce | Exoticism | Menageries | North America
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… Yet West End locations for elite sociability co-existed with a vigorous popular culture, located in pubs, sites of curiosity, print shops, coffeehouses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland [ Clubs & Societies ]
… the past. Their museums provided long-term preservation that could not be granted to private collections and cabinets of curiosity depending on the collector’s heirs. A specific form of sociability developed among knowledgeable men who strove …
Collecting | Fellowship | Learned society | Museums | National Character | Scotland
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