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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]

… were some of the most popular sports in the eighteenth century, this entry is concerned chiefly with the examples of cricket and horse-racing.   Practices > Associational culture Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés sports Club Cricket Horse-Racing Colonies Gambling Newmarket Cricket While the game of cricket had become popular in the first half of the eighteenth century, the loss of the great …

Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]

… et amis qui pouvaient rester des semaines ou des mois. On y organisait des loisirs (parties de chasse, jeux, tel le cricket ou le bowling) et on y admirait les collections dans des bibliothèques, des cabinets et des galeries richement …

John Keats [ Art and Literature ]

… such as the sonnet ‘Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison’, or the sonnet ‘On the Grasshopper and the Cricket’, which was the product of one of the friendly sonnet-writing contests held at Hunt’s house. One of Keats’s most …