… from Oliver Goldsmith, An history of the earth, and animated nature. By Oliver Goldsmith. In eight volumes. London: printed for J. N, 1779. … On Female beauty (1774) …
… … Gaming … Gentleman … George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general. Printed for R. Baldwin, in Pater-Noster Row, London; and sold by W. Jackson, in the High-Street, Oxford (Oxford), 1767, …
… An Essay on Friendship; Or, a Moral Discourse on the Nature and Effects of Mutual Love. By Timothy Greated, Gent . Printed by J. Ilive, in Aldersgate-Street, 1726, p. 1-4. Transcription by Noémie Vandenborre (UBO). Full book in ECCO. …
… Combe, William. The Auction. A Town Eclogue. By the honourable Mr. ---: [i.e. William Combe] The third edition. London : printed for J. Bew, No. 28, Pater-Noster-Row, 1778. Full text from ECCO. … The Auction (1778) …
… hear? Our intellectual ore must shine, Not slumber idly in the mine. Let education's moral mint The noblest images imprint; Let taste her curious touchstone hold, To try if standard be the gold; But 'tis thy commerce, Conversation, Must … from Hannah More, Florio: a tale, for fine gentlemen and fine ladies: and, the bas bleu; or, conversation: two poems . Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand (London), 1786, p. 66-89. … The Bas Bleu (1786) …
… itself shows the intimate relationship the Spectator ’s authors wished to establish between reading such ephemeral prints and shaping people’s social behaviours. Reading periodicals was conceived as an essentially collective activity. … their value from the luxurious material objects which had occasioned them, – the tea sets – to cheap yet enlightening prints 3 which would turn each tea /coffee table assembly into exclusive circles reminiscent of the seventeenth-century … Political Thought, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 211-245. Shevelow, Kathryn, Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Ea rly Periodical (London: Routledge, 1989). In the DIGIT.EN.S …
… in their pages, they finally create their own model, which can be seen as a virtual sociable space. Objects > Print culture Keywords Conversation Correspondence News Periodicals Politics Women A ‘periodical’ or periodical … Whig ministers. Two scholarly theories are available on the origins of periodicals: journalism is traced back before printing, assuming that only the regularity counts, even if the document was handwritten; or it is assumed that journalism was born with the printing press. 3 Indeed, it should be remembered that printed periodicals developed almost simultaneously in France, …