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Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 [ Practices ]
… toast; The adorers offerings prove who’s most divine, They sacrificed in water, we in wine." … Toasting … Drinking … Beauty … Charm … Taken from Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), "Verses, Written for the …
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James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… London, NPG 4452, 1785. Abstract After a restricted childhood, Boswell as a young man broke out to become a hard-drinking womaniser and dedicated socialiser. He also devoted considerable time to seeking out the company of great men, … women in terms of sociability rather than for sexual pleasure. He was a depressive, often connected to his excessive drinking, which placed a limit on his capacity for sociability. People > Art and Literature Keywords Alcohol Depression … kept for more or less the whole of his life, and which remained lost until the early years of the twentieth century. Drinking for Boswell almost always took place within a social context. He was not particularly choosey, though, about the …
Alcohol | Depression | Charm | Manners | Sex
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