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Grasmere Journal (1800) [ Practices / People ]
… morning. Wm. walked to Ambleside after dinner. I went with him part of the way. He talked much about the object of his essay for the second volume of "L. B." ... Amos Cottle's death in the Morning Post . N.B. —When William and I returned … came in while we were at dinner, very wet. We talked till twelve o'clock. He had sate up all the night before, writing essays for the newspaper.... Exceedingly delighted with the second part of Christabel . Sunday Morning, 5th October. …
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… a towering figure in circles promoting literary sociability, and a respected literary critic after her publication of an essay on Shakespeare refuting Voltaire’s criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her own stamp on … terms with Samuel Johnson , who seems to have admired her knowledge on literature. For his pejorative remarks on her Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769), there is only Boswell’s word, but they did fall out when Johnson … a towering figure in circles promoting literary sociability, and a respected literary critic after her publication of an essay on Shakespeare refuting Voltaire’s criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her own stamp on …
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the sociable assembly. As an idea, the tea-table … as a form of sociability at which conversation and periodical reading, as well as tea, were central. Thirteen further essays (Nos 92, 140, 158, 212, 216, 246, 276, 300, 323, 395, 488, 536, 606) in The Spectator reinforce this trope of the … was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the sociable assembly. As an idea, the tea-table …
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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… the celebrity he gradually gained by a lifetime of work as a professional writer, with publications, like his Rambler essays between 1750 and 1752, his edition of the works of Shakespeare in 1765, and above all his Dictionary of the …
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Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… Locke as one of the main reasons for controversies and errors. See for instance John Locke, ‘Of the Abuse of Words’, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1690], ed. Peter H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975) p. 490-491. 4 . …
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