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… talk.’ 1 1 . The Spectator n° 4, ed D. F. Bond (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.) vol. 1, p. 21. The phrase itself shows the intimate relationship the Spectator ’s authors wished to establish between reading such ephemeral prints … conversation understood as sociability. 2 . The Free-Thinker n° 147 (London, 1722), vol. 3, p. 308. The move was in itself paradoxical. Periodicals claimed to improve upper-class forms of sociability by displacing their value from the … forms of sociability of upper-class women. For example, Fulvia ‘thinks life lost in her own Family, and fancies her self out of the World when she is not in the Ring, the Play-House, or the Drawing-Room. […] The missing of an Opera the …
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