Kit-Cat Club
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… and Tonson continued to exchange their mutual affection and nostalgia for the Club’s hey-day in letters and posted gifts. 11 . Such as those of Walpole at Houghton and Eastbury, or those of Sir Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham … Six of Vanbrugh’s main architectural patrons were fellow members, however, and on one occasion the Club collected a gift of 800 guineas for the actress Mrs Bracegirdle. Reflecting the semi-mercantile nature of the Whig party, the Kit-Cat …
… with Garrick following her comments, she admitted, echoing Hume—during a visit to Paris in 1764, the philosopher had gifted Riccoboni with a copy of his History of England—, that humanity, despite their differences, were all motivated by …
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… Academy was praised by visitors precisely for its adherence to the recommendations of his predecessor. 5 Reynolds’s gift at dealing with children was much praised by his contemporaries. In a drawing depicting the elderly Academician in …
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… due to news of his fame in England, as to first-hand knowledge of his writings. Diderot proved an exception, as Sterne gifted him the six published volumes of Tristram Shandy . The future author of Jacques le Fataliste et son maître was …
… virtue without reward. For the persona of this essay, beauty and virtue are to be encountered in Nature, which are a gift of God. Our faculties are therefore to be used to worship our Creator. Finally, the last essay seems to take the …
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… of the sales and social gatherings, the myth of ‘Pictor Ignotus’ is beginning to fade. 13 . Sarah Haggarty, Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). 14 . Keri Davies, ‘“My Little …
… in a general sense as referring to man’s physical and social environment. For Coleridge, man was the only creature gifted with a moral will and so ‘ever greater than Circumstances’ (Taylor 11). His later writings would reflect on the …