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Clarissa (1748) [ Practices / Concepts ]
… dearest friend, keep to yourself every thing that may appear disreputable of him from me. I must acquaint you that his kind behaviour, and my low-spiritedness, co-operating with your former advice, and my unhappy situation, made me that … his declarations: and now indeed I am more in his power than ever. He presses me every hour (indeed as needlessly, as unkindly) for fresh tokens of my esteem for him, and confidence in him. And as I have been brought to some verbal … to such protection as I could find. All my comfort is, that your advice repeatedly given me to the same purpose, in your kind letter before me, warrants me. I now set out the more cheerfully to London on that account: for, before, a heavy …
Fiction | Correspondence | Friendship
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Humphry Clinker (1771) [ Places ]
… Lewis, if I did not find myself disposed to think and speak favourably of this people, among whom I have met with more kindness, hospitality, and rational entertainment, in a few weeks, than ever I received in any other country during the … would be no difference, in point of dialect, between the youth of Edinburgh and of London. The civil regulations of this kingdom and metropolis are taken from very different models from those of England, except in a few particular … advantage of attending the infirmary, which is the best instituted charitable foundation that I ever knew. Now we are talking of charities, here are several hospitals, exceedingly well endowed, and maintained under admirable regulations; and …
Fiction | Scotland | Correspondence | Architecture
Anthology
At the Ball (1815) [ Practices ]
… entreaties for her early attendance, for her arriving there as soon as possible after themselves, for the purpose of taking her opinion as to the propriety and comfort of the rooms before any other person came, that she could not refuse … Frank was standing by her, but not steadily; there was a restlessness, which showed a mind not at ease. He was looking about, he was going to the door, he was watching for the sound of other carriages, —impatient to begin, or afraid of … Elton appeared; and all the smiles and the proprieties passed. “But Miss Bates and Miss Fairfax” said Mr. Weston, looking about. “We thought you were to bring them.” The mistake had been slight. The carriage was sent for them now. Emma …
Fiction | Dance | Benevolence | Happiness
Anthology
Hunting scene in Joseph Andrews (1742) [ Practices ]
… Joseph, who whilst he was speaking had continued in one attitude, with his head reclining on one side, and his eyes cast on the ground, no sooner perceived, on looking up, the position of Adams, who was stretched on his back, and snored louder than the usual braying of the animal with long ears, than he turned towards Fanny, and, taking her by the hand, began a dalliance, which, though consistent with the purest innocence and decency, neither he would …
Hunting | Fiction
Anthology
Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… Theatre Women Best known as a novelist and chronicler of London’s literary circles, Frances Burney was in fact born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, in 1752, and spent the first eight years of her life there. Some eighty years later, when compiling her Memoirs of Dr Burney (1832), she remembered the sociability of King’s Lynn as characterized by ‘inertia’, lambasting the mid-eighteenth century provinces for their ‘love of frippery, … and not there alone, nor alone in any other small town, but in every village, every hamlet, nay every cottage in the kingdom; and though mental cultivation is as slowly gradual, and as precarious of circulation, as Genius […] still the …
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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Robinson Crusoe (1719) [ People ]
… peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection, which I frequently made, how like a king I looked. First of all, the whole country was my own property, so that I had an undoubted right of dominion. … had secured my two weak, rescued prisoners, and given them shelter, and a place to rest them upon, I began to think of making some provision for them; and the first thing I did, I ordered Friday to take a yearling goat, betwixt a kid and a … peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection, which I frequently made, how like a king I looked." … Conversation … Fiction … Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe …
Conversation | Fiction
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… and created a society of writers and readers based on esteem, admiration and friendship, thereby promoting a special kind of sociability, relying on the qualities of the heart and mind. People > Art and Literature Keywords Correspondence … his correspondents, among them Lady Bradshaigh 4 , considered that there were advantages to writing and drawbacks to speaking because some remarks are made more to be written than spoken, and because speaking can lead to shallow communication. On the contrary, writing, especially when it manages to integrate features …
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… The absurdity will appear in its full force, when we consider that one sixth part of the natives of this whole extensive kingdom is crowded within the bills of mortality. What wonder that our villages are depopulated, and our farms in want of … wilderness, in which there is neither watch nor ward of any signification, nor any order or police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. There are many causes that contribute to the daily increase of this enormous mass; but they … and licentiousness, they are seen every where rambling, riding, rolling, rushing, justling, mixing, bouncing, cracking, and crashing in one vile ferment of stupidity and corruption—All is tumult and hurry; one would imagine they were …
Fiction | Towns | Correspondence
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Oroonoko (1688) [ People ]
… our Western World, and by that Name he was receiv’d on Shoar at Parham-House, where he was destin’d a Slave. But if the King himself (God bless him) had come a-shore, there cou’d not have been greater Expectations by all the whole …
Fiction | Hierarchy | Slavery | Politics
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