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… charming bodies with the cooling and salubrious breezes’. Their ‘majestic deportment’ is juxtaposed with the fawning gentlemen they attract – with such ‘sheepish humility’ these ‘cringing worshippers’ appeared as though the ‘world was … Muse, or, Universal Medly (1707), for example, which cheerfully claimed to have been ‘written by a society of merry gentlemen, for the entertainment of the town’. The contents also suggest that its anticipated audience was a collective … Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800 (Harlow, 2001). 17 . Kate Davison, ‘Occasional Politeness and Gentlemen’s Laughter in 18th Century England’, The Historical Journal, 57, 4 (2014), p. 921-45. 18 . Charles Harding …
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