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... a collection of pornographic poems at the close of the second volume under the title The Cabinet of Love , Curll subtly created a false association between Rochester and its content. Providing a bibliographical analysis of The Works , this essay traces the shifting ways in which Rochester and his poems were...

... naturelle; ouvrage de lacqs, habillemens indiens & chinois, armes anciennes, tant des pays étrangers que de France. . . . &c.” In the largest of the rooms, the objects were stored in Chinese lacquerwork cabinets, above and below which were grouped arrangements of crystal vases, porcelain containers...

... in Olivia’s less-­than-­safe keeping, Manly struggles throughout the play to be the plain dealer that he says he is. The conspicuous absence of his cabinet, in which he places his cash and jewels, corresponds to the Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 37, Number 2, Spring...

... an ideal virtuoso. He was also deeply welcome as a homegrown, Protestant answer to the dazzling continental examples of connoisseurs and collectors whose hoards formed de rigueur stops on the early Grand Tour. Survey- ing European curiosity cabinets had constituted a requisite exercise in self...

..., Silver eschews a chronological narrative and looks instead to eighteenth-century forms of the cabinet of curiosities and the museum to supply his book’s structural arrangement. In place of chap- ters, he provides “cases” organized by abstract themes, including “metaphor,” “design,” “inwardness...

... elaborate Menippean apparatus, does mock Ambrose Philips as a writer who does not understand how to emu- late the elder poets (175). The first is burlesque, the second satirical burlesque. One might think of the survey chapters as a kind of curiosity cabinet con- taining five drawers, one for each...

... the period of her birth, Thus to the Genius of the day A certain Dame was heard to pray: “Give me, indulgent Genius, give ’Midst learned cabinets to live, ’Midst curiosities, collections, Specimens, medals, and dissections, With books of every tongue and land All difficult to understand...

... the cabinets of Ladies and Gentle- 66  Eighteenth-Century Life Figure 5a. Frontispiece from The Polite Repository, or, Pocket Companion for the Year MDCCCVIII. Reproduced from a copy in the author’s collection. Figure 5b. Frontispiece from The Polite Repository, or, Pocket Companion for the Year...

... magazines. There are some witty layouts: Georgian dresses on mannequins are presented in a cabinet with a transparent back, allowing one to observe other exhibition-goers as they continue round the displays. By encouraging visitors to look past the objects and watch other people engaged in acts...

... extensive collections; a detailed Musaeum Catalogue in preparation for publication; and her own collection taxonomy inspired by the cabinets of renowned eighteenth-century collectors. 76 Her activities connected her with enlightened connoisseurs or sophisticated amateur collectors who maintained prints...

.... G. Saur, 2007), 37 47, especially 44. It is conceivable that this payment was to another Mrs. Kellner. Queen Charlot te s 1789 Account Book 9 9 December 15th To M Bean Cabinet maker87 To Papendiek88 To Nicolay89 Colonel Goldsworthy Blackney for House hire90 Albert To Woodbridge Laceman91...

... together, George Colman and Bonnell Thornton drew on manuscripts (as Chantal Lavoie reports) from the Cowper family and included this poem with one other in 146   Eighteenth-Century Life a section headed “Original Poems by Mrs. Madan.”9 The same year, how- ever, The Lovers Cabinet (1755) had...

... that Delany’s cabinet, which had as much a visual as a social function, reveals much about the purpose of her collecting and displaying, which helped maintain Delany’s social networks. The grottoes she decorated were a further example of a domestic space that invited sociability, becoming metonyms...

... pam- phlets, contemporary journals and periodicals, such as Le Cabinet des modes, and chronicles, such as the Mémoires secrets, as well as portraits and gazettes des atours (eighteenth-­century “look books,” which contained fabric swatches 128 Eighteenth-Century Life and dress descriptions...

... from the time it is dated (235). This is in fact a let- ter that Elizabeth Montagu sent to her friends thirty years earlier with strict instructions to lock it up in a cabinet. Somehow, it was not kept private and now proves emblematic of the continuous recirculation across [the] porous boundaries...

... artists, he oversaw two publishing endeavors, both of which spanned four volumes in folio. The first, Antiquités étrusques, grecques, et romaines tirées du cabinet du M. William Hamilton, commonly referred to as AEGR, was begun in 1766, and its volumes were brought out over the next decade.4...

...,” in Buffon’s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du roi (Paris, 1752–68), 22:195. Courtesy National Library of Australia. ECL26303-Knell.q4.jw 3/26/03 2:50 PM Page 18 18 Eighteenth-Century Life mid nineteenth century...

... and Duchess of Northum- berland in 1773 and completed by Robert Adam in 1775, the Glass Drawing Room was a thirty-six by twenty-two foot space completely surrounded by elegantly patterned, radiant, red-glass panels and six-foot-tall mirrors. Though Catherine de Medici’s cabinet des miroirs, la galerie...

... According to this logic, the self and its cognitive faculty must first be “wholly shut off.” Understanding is enabled by accumulating knowledge supplied by exterior objects: “The Senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet” (55). Thus is the human faculty, “closet,” and “empty...

... for his curiosity cabinet, and Boruwlaski sent him his last pair of Polish boots, a sign of caste, the Duke returned him a £20 note.55 More disastrously, his noble friends ignored him. Exiled from the magic proximity to nobles, Boruwlaski lost his elite frisson.56 Taught years earlier by Count...