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Toast at the Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1797) [ Practices ]
… Bicentennial Commission and published by authority of Congress ; John C. Fitzpatrick, editor ... Washington: Government Printing Office, v.35, p. 397. Transcription by Alain Kerhervé. Full volume from Hathitrust. … Toast at the Philadelphia …
Toasting | Dance | Assemblies
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Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 (2) [ Practices ]
… Stepney, Esq; William Walsh, Esq; Thomas Tickell, Esq. Never before collected and publish'd together. In two volumes . Printed for F. Cogan, at the Middle Temple Gate (London), 1749, vol. 1, p. 234-235. Full text by ECCO. … …
Toasting | Drinking
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Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
… 1780s and early 1790s, these could be highly structured events, with both toasts and songs pre-arranged and sometimes printed in advance, forming a secular order of service to the convivial occasion. 3 1 . ‘conviviality, n.‘ OED Online, … 1762-1830 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), p.14. The development of conviviality gave birth to a variety of print productions that served the needs of convivial meetings. A substantial print industry was dedicated to reproducing the words for convivial songs in ‘ songsters ‘ . 5 These existed alongside …
Community | Conviviality | Hilarity | Politics | Song | Toasting
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Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… well as a political institution. Poetry written for the club’s toasting glasses by Lord Halifax and others appeared in print, paying homage to aristocratic ladies known for their beauty, wit or other qualities, the ‘toasts of the town’. 6 … elsewhere, used phallic-shaped ‘prick glasses’. 7 6 . ‘Verses Written for the Toasting-Glasses of the Kit-Cat Club’, printed in The Toasters Compleat. With the Last Additions (London: s.n., 1704), and reprinted in John Dryden, The fifth part of Miscellany poems. Containing variety of new translations of the ancient poets: …
Alcohol | Drinking | Ritual | Tableware | Toasting
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