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Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… to the assembly. Sterne published his sermons under the title The Sermons of Mr. Yorick (1760, 1766). This caused the displeasure of some critics who disapproved of publication of religious texts under the name of Yorick, the King’s jester in … a desire to take part in a local quarrel, perhaps in the (disappointed) hope of preferment, as from the discovery of the pleasures of writing. The pamphlet was destroyed, and only a handful of copies have survived. The pleasures of writing in the satirical vein soon became apparent with the publication of the first two volumes of The Life …
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… happiness: invalids and those that accompanied them sought an improvement in their physical condition and psychological pleasure. Their psychosomatic disorders could only be relieved by the combined experience of novelty and freedom. The … in the spa, mixed-sex sociability, imposed refinement and theatricality in the Parades, the Assembly Rooms, the Pleasure Gardens, the coffee-houses, put a new burden on the newcomers, that of conforming to a specific ritual with its …
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