… included the most celebrated singers of the day, such as the famous soprano Lucrezia Agujari (1743-96), but also travellers such as James Bruce (1730-94), lionized by all the cognoscenti of London. 1 In 1782, Dr Burney’s musical …
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… an economic system that privileged material progress to the expense of social and moral betterment: ‘Alas! we need not travel to the coasts of Africa for Fetisch worshippers- I had been almost tempted to say that the whole constitution of … at the landscape. This type of shared vision would resurface in Dorothy’s journals and Coleridge’s notebooks as they travelled together to Germany in September 1798, and Scotland in August 1803. His wife, Sarah, though stood on the …
… especially in naval politics for the rest of her life. 6 As was usual for ladies of her social status, she also travelled to Bath or Tunbridge Wells to drink the waters and enjoy the easy-going sociability of these watering places. …
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… of Jupiter, flanked by further examples of the classical material culture which they explored and discussed on their travels: the Colosseum and an urn bearing the relief of The Borghese Dancers . On the other, it also sustained that …