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Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… The Temple of Nature , in which he considers the concept of sociability as one of the keys to the evolution of species: love and sympathy guide the species toward perfection through the multiple changes caused by transformism. To some … of the enlightenment of mankind, and Darwin marveled at such a change in which he saw the very origin of man: ‘How Love and Sympathy the bosom warm, / Allure with pleasure, and with pain alarm, / With soft affections weave the social … ‘Philosophy. Science. Peace. Elements subdued. Swords turned to ploughshares. Every man under his fig tree. Moral world. Love each other’, as Darwin summarizes it in his first draft. 2 Darwin was eager to offer his own scientific and …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
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Stefan Zanović [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
… included not only Giacomo Casanova and Lord Lincoln, but also Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston , whose lover he became. News of the couple’s exploits and flamboyant lifestyle was followed with great interest in England and … became romantically entangled but he was undoubtedly charming the British lady to manipulate her. Nevertheless, their love affair was one of the most scandalous in British society at the end of the eighteenth century . Zanović’s strategy … included not only Giacomo Casanova and Lord Lincoln, but also Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston , whose lover he became. News of the couple’s exploits and flamboyant lifestyle was followed with great interest in England and …
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To Mary Berry (1795) [ Practices ]
… at which I left them. The situation seems handsome, the house extremely pretty and in very pure taste; there is a lovely little gallery painted in treillage, rather prettier than a paper of that gender, which I have seen some where or …
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William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… kind, engages with public issues and explores various forms of community. The Prelude (1805) celebrates ‘Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind’ (book VIII) and declares that the love for local landscape is ‘To patriotic and domestic love / Analogous’. 6 The affinity of local and national …
Correspondence | Domesticity | French Revolution | Politics | Solitude
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… (1713), bi-weeklies like The Free-Thinker (1718-1721), or yet triweeklies like The Tatler (1709-1711) or The Lover (1714) were not only available in coffeehouses but also through private subscriptions. Women, who were barred … conversation topics and rumours as a source of inspiration. Other papers like The Female Tatler (1709-1710) or The Lover could transcribe the conversations of a fictitious team of writers meeting in a club. 5 . The Spectator n° 16, vol. …
Commerce | Correspondence | Femininity | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… , and later became close with the president of the Chambre des enquêtes, Charles-Jean-François Hénault, who shared her love of repartee and sociability. The marquise du Deffand was a spirited woman with a sharp tongue. She presided over the …
Correspondence | France | Friendship | Salons
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… Horatian imitation, Wortley Montagu and her ally Lord Hervey describe Pope as ‘No more for loving made than to be loved’. 3 Elsewhere in their Verses Address’d to the Imitator (1733), he is presented as a vile, subhuman fiend, unfit … own time and throughout history. His Eloisa, the speaker in 1717’s Eloisa to Abelard , yearns for her cruelly castrated lover while confined to a twelfth-century convent, and ends her soliloquy by communing across the centuries with Pope himself: ‘some future Bard […] / who loves so long, so well’. 5 And in The Rape of the Lock , although deriding a social world which would prioritise the …
Catholicism | Celebrity | Correspondence | Enmity | Friendship | Poetry
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… 1775. 1 Montagu invited members of the upper as well as middle classes, men as well as women, professionals and amateur lovers of literature, to their various homes, mostly in London but also in the country, for gatherings which did not … Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO): http://emco.swansea.ac.uk/edition/introduction/ In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Of The Love of Fame (1734) Letter to The Chronicle (1762) Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) The Bas Bleu (1786) … Called the …
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