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The Auction (1778) [ People ]
… kept in awe “By the stern rigours of maternal law, “Ne'er aim'd at higher joys than to bestow “Our eager gazings on the streets below. “Happy indeed, if, on the First of May, “The dancing chimney-sweeper came that way. “No balmy fluids did …
Women | Beauty | Leisure
Anthology
The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… of " our lips." A LOWNGER is a creature, that you will often fee lolling in a coffee-house, or sauntering about the streets, with great calmness, and a most inflexible stupidity in his countenance. He takes as much pains as the Sot, to …
Drinking | Women | Rake | Gaming | Gentleman
Anthology
The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… distrest; At once they rise--so have I seen-- You guess the simile I mean, Take what comparison you please, The crowded streets, the swarming bees, The pebbles on the shores that lie, The stars which form the galaxy; These serve t' embellish …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
Anthology
Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
Education | French Revolution | Travel | Women
Encyclopedia
Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… successful set of images. Among the public spaces where the new commodity items were staged were shops and shopping streets, theatres, pleasure gardens, all of them spaces where people often went in groups. For example, joint urban …
Art | Commodities | Community | Consumption | Furniture | Luxury | Porcelain | Shopping | Tea-table | Women
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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… (1826-1831) , trans. Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi Books, 2011), p. 222-223 . In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Walking the Streets of London (1716) Les caprices de la mode (1721) Gentleman's Magazine on Dress (1731) Gentleman's Magazine …
Clothes | Consumption | Dress | Fashion | Rank | Women
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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]
… ‘merry peal’ of church bells, the tasteful richness of the decorated chair, and the careful order of the procession. The streets were crowded to a degree that access became almost difficult. The windows of almost every house were thronged …
Dining | Elections | Public sphere | Tories | Whigs | Women
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