... on dogs. The passage of this seemingly slight piece of legislation created impassioned debates about the nature and welfare of animals, about the rights of individuals to possess or keep property, and about the way the kinship felt for animals tampers with the seemingly self-evident borders of kind...

... in order to emphasize how her employers mistreat her. Her comment that it “seemed indeed the privilege of their superior nature to kick me about, like the dog or cat” calls attention to the anthropocentrism inherent in human society (82). The apparently “superior” masters who rule over both domestic staff...

... to include the Hogarth’s Graphic Works numbers of the corresponding prints. What Ein- berg acknowledges as “an unchallenged” (9) catalog of the prints ought to have been the sister volume to her catalog of the paintings. Trump In Self-Portrait with Pug (1749, no. 194, p. 284n, figure 5), the dog...

... of Venus and Vulcan. (Zoffany also graphi- cally separates Venus from her Vulcan.) It is most likely, however, that the addition of the flageolet is an example of Zoffany’s playful control as artist, stamped on the picture in the signature of his dog, Roma, bottom center, with eyes fixed...

... been fortunate in evading hunters: “Taint, in this context, means to leave a scent, to become vulnerable to pur- suing dogs. A creature leaves more scent on dewy mornings than on dry ones” (58). Notwithstanding this definition of taint, the line cuts both ways. On the one hand, Tiney never knew...

... backwards toward a hatch, dramatizing the force of the strike. The combatants are slightly larger than the onlookers, implying that the artist is trying to make this scene seem a larger-­than-­life struggle. Daniel Dodd’s illustration of Lieutenant Bowling defending Rod- erick from a pack of dogs...

... economy of nature drew his attention to the fact that Selborne was itself a crossroads for nature’s extensive cir- culation, effected through both human commerce and natural migration. In Selborne, White observes the presence in his parish of such exotics as Oriental goldfish, a Chinese dog,32 German...

... Elizabeth Bennet and Miss Bingley were both aware. And just as horses and dogs were being bred true to various types, the differentiation of the laboring from the polite was being sought and encouraged to emphasize the perception of different breeds of humans...

... and usually effective procedure known as couching on a young adolescent, William Taylor, who had been born blind, A Variable Account of Bl indness 7 7 to remove his cataracts. The young man after the procedure had not been able to distinguish his dog from his cat without first touching them, and Cheselden...

... that in the Debates he had taken “care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it,” which hardly sounds like Brobdingnagian detachment (Hill, Johnsonian Miscellanies, 1:379). As Kaminksi and Hoover point out, however, it is difficult to know which mongrels Johnson has in mind here—Walpole’s guard dogs...

... calls “legendary Swiftiana”: “Here, neither Swift nor Stella is made a bastard,” he writes; “Swift does not say, ‘My uncle gave me the education of a dog’; Dryden does not say, ‘Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet’; and Temple does not seat Swift and Stella at the servants’ table.”1 Despite...

... is “the figure of mourning”—alone, self- absorbed, set in a natural scene. In Wedgwood stoneware, she is accompanied by simply a tree and her pet dog. From 1790 through the 1820s, however, illus- trators turn their attention to the conclusion of the Maria episode to empha- size “Maria rescued.” She...

..., it is discovered and read aloud to everyone present. The coffeehouse patrons hardly know how to interpret the apparently nonsensical inventory of “Hints” that contains such strange items as “Childermas-day­ , Saltseller, House-­Dog, Screech-­Owl, Cricket,” “Lion by Trade a Tailor,” and “Face half Pict half...

... accompanied by a dog that became a Parisian celeb- rity.3 He made time for occasional literary exercises, such as an Essai historique et critique sur le duel;4 and in 1825, at the end of his life, he pub- Eighteenth-Century Life 25 (Spring 2001): 214–224 © 2001...

..., Reading Swift's Poetry , opens with this beautiful illustration of Swift's metapoetic tricksiness, which serves as an apt base from which Cook examines Swift's chronic filching from the poetic archive. The question of how an author makes new from old (stale genres, tropes, clichés, etc.) dogged Swift...

..., it has recently been argued,2 Dampier seeks to reclaim the “Eng- lish” identity that his buccaneering had forfeited, much as another famous West Country sea dog, Captain Henry Morgan, was able to refashion himself through the deputy governorship of Jamaica...

... their genitals as hunting dogs. The clown drops his breeches: “To her,” he cries at his rigid member, “to her, Towzer.” For her part, the young woman knows how to manage the situation: 200   Eighteenth-Century Life The Nymph, in a Heat, Ne’er stood to debate, Resolving to manage...

... their texts. And while some adversarial Whigs such as John Dennis were hyper-attuned to the Jacobite dog whistle, liable to be set barking by even the most innocuous of texts, there can be little doubt that authors such as Pope expected their friends in the Jacobite underworld to discover local seditious...

... that they caught dogs and bandicoots and circum- Captivity and Captivation: Gullivers in Brobdingnag 129 cised them, knowing that this would incense their captors because Moslems regard dogs as unclean. The action brought further punishment, but Bristow felt it was justified because “compelling us...

... to inscribe him in the “volume of honour” (271). Like the dog, horse, and livestock breeders whose activities at the turn of the nineteenth century were establishing the breeds we recognize today, Sir Walter values particular species characteristics—he admires his eldest daughter for “being very...