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The Spectator, No. 454 (11 August 1712) [ Places / Transport ]
… was an Air in the Purveyors for Covent-Garden , who frequently converse with Morning Rakes, very unlike the seemly Sobriety of those bound for Stocks Market . Nothing remarkable happened in our Voyage; but I landed with Ten Sail of …
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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… fashion continued to run towards novelty and elegance, but there was a burgeoning desire for sartorial freedom and sobriety. 3 Vigée Le Brun’s portraits of the queen and of Yolande de Polignac contributed to the fashion for the white …
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
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Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
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On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]
… blest reforms that I have never heard, And she may now be as discreet and wise, As once absurd in all discerning eyes. Sobriety perhaps may now be found Where once intoxication press'd the ground; The subtle and injurious may be just, And …
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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
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