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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Ana M. Acosta The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27102-Acosta.q4.jw.SH 4/14/03 2:10 PM Page 1
Spaces of Dissent and the Public Sphere in
Hackney, Stoke Newington, and Newington Green...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 240–242.
Published: 01 January 2011
... a
consistent political viewpoint, which is quite a challenge, since Fielding’s writ-
ings were widely seen at the time, and since, as deriving entirely from his need
to be paid, whatever the source — this is, after all, the man who wrote that his
career choices were to become either a hackney writer...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 115–117.
Published: 01 September 2014
... maintained a
consistent political viewpoint, which is quite a challenge, since Fielding’s writ-
ings were widely seen at the time, and since, as deriving entirely from his need
to be paid, whatever the source—this is, after all, the man who wrote that his
career choices were to become either a hackney...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 January 2014
...
ignominiously in 1786. A more appropriate reference would have been to New
College, Manchester, and New College, Hackney, both of which opened in
1786, though the latter also closed ignominiously ten years later. Major’s treat-
ment of the Countess of Huntingdon is disappointing: her college at Trevecka...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 63–77.
Published: 01 April 2001
.... Fearon’s initial discomfiture
highlights the tension between political opinions and personal experi-
ence:
A boy procured us two hackney coaches, from a distance of about a quarter
of a mile. I offered him an English shilling, having no other small coin...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 105–126.
Published: 01 September 2009
... is currently best known, not for her literary efforts, but
for denouncing Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets (1784) as “hackneyed” “hedge-
flowersfull of notorious plagiarisms.”1 Seward’s accusations likely influ-
enced Smith to insert quotation marks in the third and subsequent editions
of her sonnets...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 82–92.
Published: 01 January 2012
....
In the introduction to the second edition, he reminisces about his efforts to
stay focused as he plowed through often dreary prose and hackneyed plots. “I
remember my own struggle,” he recalls, “during those long afternoons I spent
reading these novels, to sustain my wandering attention and overcome a long...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 85–105.
Published: 01 April 2000
... in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry
Norris and the Hackney Petty Sessions Book, vol. 28 (London Record Soc., 1991), p. 11.
58. London Metropolitan Archives, Calendar of Commitments to the Westminster
House of Correction, WJ/CC/B 150.
59. London Metropolitan Archives...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 17–28.
Published: 01 January 2001
...
Britain in John Bates, Two (United) are better than One alone. A Thanksgiving Sermon Upon the
Union of the Two Kingdoms, of England and Scotland, Preach’d at Hackney, May 1. 1707 (Lon-
don, 1707), pp. 6 & 26; and Joseph Stennet, A Sermon Preach’d on the First of May, 1707...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2002
...). Pp. 347. $85. ISBN 0-19-818395-X
Hammond, Brean S. Professional Imaginative Writing in England 1670–1740: “Hackney
for Bread” (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997). Pp. 348. $85. ISBN 0-19-811299-8
Siskin, Clifford. The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 34–50.
Published: 01 September 2021
... deployment of the trope reflecting not a single coherent argument but instead “the polyphonic theatre of words that constitutes public debate.” 23 By the mid-nineteenth century, the trope of London in ruins had become so hackneyed that Punch issued a proclamation banning the use of the New Zealander...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 53–69.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., or “classical,” schools that dosed their pupils
with sufficient Latin to make them eligible for university and careers in the
law, the church, or the government, such research has described schools
sponsored by various Christian denominations— for example, Hackney
Academy— or vocational institutions...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 124–139.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Conan Doyle’s oddly topical story, The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898),
recently republished by a small English press. This is a most hackneyed and
predictable adventure tale about a party of tourists on a Nile steamer who are
kidnapped by “Dervishes” (the Islamic extremists of the 1890s). The villains...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... “to
talk politics as to breathe,” and pilloried the belief that “every cobbler, tin-
ker, porter, and hackney-coachman” was able to “point out every blunder
of this or that minister.”41 Of laborers, he added, quoting the famous prov-
erb, “Ne sutor ultra crepidam! Let them mind to their own work...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 80–93.
Published: 01 September 2001
... argues that Johnson might well have seen Savage’s life fitting the paradigm of “the
fall of greatness,” suggesting that, by 1743, “the fall of Walpole” had made this “hackneyed
plot seem fresh again” (p. 79). Lipking notes that an “alternative view” expressed by J. C. D...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 3–18.
Published: 01 April 2001
... contemporary images of him, most of them
satiric caricatures on the order of Shadwell’s Bayes, that “abject” and over-
rated “Hackney-rayler.”6 Eighteenth-century portraits of Dryden, like those
of Congreve and Dennis, mainly posit antidotes to these rebarbative
sketches...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., Budgell's best remembered: “Every one knows that hackneyed sentence,” declared the Westminster Magazine in 1775. 2 And regardless of whether or not Budgell actually wrote the lines, which is not recorded until 1752, it posits his suicide as an act of exegesis, a disquieting reading of one...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 23–44.
Published: 01 April 2002
..., ed. Shirley Strum Kenny (Washington: Folger, 1984),
pp. 41–66.
8. Kenneth Charlton notes the emphasis on religious education and modest
conduct in the boarding schools that peppered the villages of Chelsea, Hackney, and
Putney just outside...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 33–54.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the ancient model by
using it “to make their fortune” (Reflections, 92–93). Samuel Parker agreed,
disclaiming panegyric’s “Nauseous, vile, pedantick Forms,” and mercenary
panegyrists’ hackneyed compliments “as prostituted Common-places as
Panegyrick itself!”12 By the time Jonathan Swift published his...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 53–72.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., brick
makers, laborers, brewers’ servants, carters, color grinders, workers in white
lead, turpentine makers, watch gilders, lapidaries, plumbers, chimney
sweepers, and lamp lighters. Farriers, lighteners, watermen, carmen,
draymen, and hackney coachmen were...
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