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… wander around the well-tended garden, with neatly trimmed hedges and trees providing the backdrop for disparate forms of conviviality, gambling and other quickly expanding forms of distraction. One was invited to take advantage of the several …

… many literary and artistic luminaries. 8 Such institutions often produced dining clubs where men could enjoy a spirit of conviviality. 6 . Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), …

… include a series of Anacreontic and convivial poems, which celebrate the glass being passed around, a celebration of conviviality which takes on a particular poignance when written in the context of imprisonment on a charge of Treason, …

… of  Sheridan ). Richard B. Sheridan was a socializer in the sense that he cherished club life with its spirit of male conviviality and friendship and for its ability to build a literary and political career. To rephrase one of R. B. …

… Musical performances were equally on the menu. The festivities contributed to making Arcadia part of the ‘practices of conviviality of the urban elite.’ (Lilti 10) We can infer the prevalence of meals from the few sporadic mentions in …

… and many of them tended to be rather boisterous during solemn ceremonies’. Elsewhere, the ministers themselves enjoyed conviviality rather too much . 14  Parsonages, too, hosted gatherings, be it for ad-hoc events or parish decisions; in …