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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… 1763, British Museum, Cc,3.44. Image InFilms, ‘View from Prior Park, Bath over gardens and the Palladian Bridge towards the city of Bath’, 2006, WikiCommons. Résumé Bath and Pyrmont were each renowned for their waters in the long … the True Nature and Due Method of Treating the Gout (1720) in which he enumerated the components of the Bath waters. Towards the end of the century, Dr Makittrick Adair’s essay, Medical Cautions. For the Consideration of Invalids: … and after his reign the issue of vesting power in the hands of a single individual was forcibly raised. The trend towards openness was thwarted by a desire for a more private form of entertainment and for more exclusiveness. The …
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… ridicule of contemporary mores (1712’s The Rape of the Lock and his various editions of The Dunciad from 1728 onwards); and philosophical treatises in verse (his Essay on Man of 1733-4 perhaps being the most notable of these). … with this moment in British literary history. The formal symmetry and self-containment of Pope’s couplets belie his awkward social position. In addition to the disadvantages of his Catholicism, he also lived with severe disability from the age of twelve onwards, his growth stunted and his back hunched following a bout of what is now known as Pott’s Disease. If his literary …
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