Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ] Morality | Periodicals | Politeness | Print culture | Politics | Slavery | Theatre | Wit | Women Encyclopedia
Beau Nash [ Fashion ] … Image After William Hoare, ‘Richard (‘Beau’) Nash’, © National Portrait Gallery London, NPG 1537, 1909. Abstract Richard Nash, known as Beau Nash by his contemporaries, played a … sociability. Oliver Goldsmith, the author of his first biography, published shortly after his death in 1761, draws the portrait of a riotous young man and a womanizer who, after a few years at Jesus College, Oxford, and an unsuccessful … Fashion | Gaming | Manners | Politeness | Refinement | Spa | Wit Encyclopedia
Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ] … Image John Closterman, 'Maurice Ashley-Cooper; Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury', © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 5308, circa 1700-1701. Abstract Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), is … Affection | Catholicism | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Manners | Politeness | Whigs | Wit Encyclopedia
Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ] Literature | Manners | Periodicals | Politeness | Whigs | Wit Encyclopedia
Laughter [ Communication ] … Image William Hogarth, ‘The Laughing Audience (or A Pleased Audience)’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D21374, 1733. Abstract Laughter was considered fundamental to sociability in eighteenth-century … Humour | Impoliteness | Laughter | Manners | Politeness | Taste | Wit Encyclopedia
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