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Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… functioned as sociable spaces for locals, travellers, tradesmen, and politicians. In the hierarchy of eighteenth-century drinking-places, inns were superior to pubs and alehouses. They sometimes functioned as settings for novels, facilitating … advent of the railway network in the nineteenth century, they began to decline. Places > Residences & Lodgings Keywords Drinking Hospitality Travel In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period which John Chartres has called … local politics. The inn, much older than the comparatively young coffee-house , was one of several types of eating and drinking venue. Chaucer's medieval Tabard, offering food and accommodation for pilgrims 2 , is the British literary …
Drinking | Hospitality | Travel
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
Coffeehouses | Drinking | Public sphere | Politics
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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
Alcohol | Celebration | Conviviality | Drinking | Masculinity | Ritual | Tableware
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The Juice of the Grape (1724) [ Practices ]
… An hypochondriacal Gentleman, who fancied himself infected with the Venereal Disease, cured by drinking Wine. A third, and the last remarkable Instance I design to produce of an hypocondriacal Patient, recover’d by … a Salivation or any other Physick: The Method I speak of will infallibly throw off the Malignity from the Blood..." … Drinking … Medicine … Melancholy … Taken from Peter Shaw, The Juice of the Grape: Or, Wine Preferable to Water. A …
Drinking | Medicine | Melancholy
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The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… so that a man cannot entirely refrain from his glass, if he keeps any company at all. But let it be remembered, that in drinking, as well as in talking, we ought [p. 84] always to " keep a watch over the doors of " our lips." A LOWNGER is a … of the bottle to enliven it: so that a man cannot entirely refrain from his glass, if he keeps any company at all. " … Drinking … Women … Rake … Gaming … Gentleman … George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, critic …
Drinking | Women | Rake | Gaming | Gentleman
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A Poem upon Tea (1712) [ Practices ]
… soon themselves destroy, Wine fires the Fancy to a dangerous height, With smoaky Flam, and with a cloudy Light." … Tea … Drinking … Beauty … Charm … Peter Motteux, A Poem upon Tea . London: Printed for …
Tea | Drinking | Beauty | Charm
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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 …
Toasting | Drinking | Beauty | Charm
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Misfortunes of the enchanted snuff-box (1710) [ Objects ]
… of it; the Matter indeed was but plain Oak, (but pretended to be part of the Royal Oak) neatly inlaid with Silver..." … Drinking … Satire … Exoticism … Religion … F.B. [Brokesby, Francis] , Les tours d'une tabatiere: or, the travels and …
Drinking | Satire | Exoticism | Religion
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Judith Defour Case, 1734 [ Practices ]
… a Shilling, and the Petticoat and Stockings for a Groat. We parted the Money, and join'd for a Quartern of Gin." … Law … Drinking … Death … Judith Defour. Killing; murder. 27th February 1734. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey …
Law | Drinking | Death
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