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Public Advertiser (1781) [ Practices ]
… the Loss of a Crown; and if Lucre alone possesses the Boson, Thorns grow there without Restraint. The vivid Glow which plays upon the Face of Beauty, and calls a divine Lustre on the humane Face, is dimmed by that Attention which is necessary to preserve the Charatter of a good Player; and that Sprightliness which makes its Way irresistibly into the Heart, is lost amidst the Ideas which are raifed … the Female Voice is too often made dissonant by the Peevishnefs occasioned by a Loss, and the late Hours occasioned by playing a double Pool, is more destructive of the delicate Charms of Beauty, than a Fever or a Confumption. The Love of …
Gaming | Conversation | Beauty
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Drury Lane (1740) [ People / Places ]
… to that grand Spectacle, as eagerly crowded into Drury-Lane to a new Comedy call'd The fair Quaker of Deal . This Play having some low Strokes of natural Humour in it, was rightly calculated for the Capacity of the Actors who play'd it, and to the Taste of the Multitude who were now more disposed and at leisure to see it: But the most happy … Attempt upon which the Support of their weak Society depended. But when the Trial I have mention'd and the Run of this Play was over, the Tide of the Town beginning to turn again in our Favour, Collier was reduced to give his Theatrical …
Theatre | Dress | Beauty
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The New Bath Guide (1766) [ Practices / Places / People ]
… Graces instructed, and Cyprian Queen: As when in a Garden delightful and gay, Where FLORA is wont all her Charms to display, The sweet Hyacinthus with Pleasure we view Contend with Narcissus in delicate Hue, [Page 74] The Gard'ner … and a Half. Now why should I mention a Hundred or more, Who went the same Circle as others before, To a Tune that they play'd us a hundred Times o'er? See little BOB JEROM, old CHRYSOSTOM's Son, With a Chitterlin Shirt, and a Buckle of … a snug little House on the Road, Page 80How SAUL was restor'd, tho' his Sorrow was sharp, When DAVID, the Bethlemite, play'd on the Harp: 'Twas Music that brought a Man's Wife from Old Nick; And at Bath has the Pow'r to recover the Sick: …
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The Auction (1778) [ People ]
… Nursery, “I passed my time beneath that harsh restraint, “Which language cannot tell, nor fancy paint; “Our youthful, playsome spirits, kept in awe “By the stern rigours of maternal law, “Ne'er aim'd at higher joys than to bestow “Our …
Women | Beauty | Leisure
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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… the heart Insensibly, each with the other's help. For me, when my affections first were led From kindred, friends, and playmates, to partake Love for the human creature's absolute self, That noticeable kindliness of heart Sprang out of … Preceptress! for at times Thou canst put on an aspect most severe; London, to thee I willingly return. Erewhile my verse played idly with the flowers Enwrought upon thy mantle; satisfied With that amusement, and a simple look Of child-like …
Poetry | Friendship | Beauty
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… gave offense to his neighbours by his refusal. Refusing all, he disobliged none. Indeed as neither he, nor his wife, played at cards, they conceived they might often be disagreable intruders. (Gilpin, Memoirs , 150) 6 . Rebecca Warner, …
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… of twenty - marketed to women as a means of conduct, social classification and moral surveillance. In this way, beauty played a multifaceted role in the development of eighteenth-century sociability, in Britain and beyond . 12 . Samuel …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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