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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 75–104.
Published: 01 April 2014
.... In The Task and several other works, Cowper depicts himself as a benevolent caretaker who generously provides shelter, food, and protection for his apparently grateful pet hares, but this representation of pet keeping coexists uneasily with the more skeptical and impartial accounts of interspecies hospitality...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 82–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Majesty s are (PRO, 30/93/6). It is fascinating sport to trace the different emphases on both public events and the minutiae of life throughout these volumes. The queen, for instance, frequently notes that the Kg went stag hunting, or hare hunting, as if these hunts had nothing to do with her...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 183–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., books, and pictures. He was waked
by Basilico yesterday, and Hare afterwards by his valet de chambre, they
bein[g] told at the same time that the execution has begun, and the carts
were drawn up against the door. Such furniture I never saw.
Betty and Jack Manners are perpetually...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
... reprimands “those pampered sons of luxury, whose tables are amply supplied with the choicest viands, whose appetites are palled by variety, and whose reason is absorbed in the gulf of dissipation,” for killing animals unnecessarily (31:690‒91). Additionally, when she rebukes people for hunting hares, she...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (3): 181–188.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., Henri, Marquis de Beuvron
Fagel, François, 72 and duc d’, 4
Flattery, 22, 50 Harcourt, marchioness d’, 4
Florence, 7, 8, 9 Harcourt, Sir Simon, 13, 37, 38, 40, 41
Fox, Sir Stephen, 33 Hare, Thomas, 24
France...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 19–30.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... There, he
likens himself to a hare abandoned by all possible friends and helpers
when “the hounds are just in view” (l. 65), an image not simply of betrayal
but also of the experience of being permanently afraid.
According to Havel, ideology creates a “formalised...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 237–251.
Published: 01 April 2001
... of
somehow repaying that kindness, Jack, in a moment of thoughtlessness,
knocks down a rabbit that crosses his path, intending to present it to Mrs.
Wilson, who is, he knows, “fond of hare” (4:126). This best-case scenario—
a good man poaching for a selfless reason—More takes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 1–44.
Published: 01 April 2009
... a hare, and keep one
greyhound as an attendant upon my walk into the fields,” a correspondent
from Cumberland writes to The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1762, “but so effec-
tually is that game destroyed by Jack the taylor, Tom the shoemaker, and
Will the weaver, that I am pinched to find one brace...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 47–62.
Published: 01 April 2001
.... Sam rolls the kitty down the bank, “through larkspur and hare-
bell and buttercup, to the bottom of the ditch.” Finis Ingenious Pain.
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This last, bittersweet detail is as mysterious...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 January 2004
... prepared in an alternative mode: who
would know, had not Glasse made the discovery, and added it (manuscript-
style) to augment her recipe? Glasse appears to polish the recipe, as if to
personalize it, though of course her readers benefit. Likewise, in a recipe
“To keep Venison or Hares sweet,” Glasse...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 107–129.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Fables
(London, 1768), which included “The Hare and the Partan,” a fable in Scots; but this is
a showcase affair, offered as “a true specimen of the Scotch dialect, where it may be
supposed to be most perfect, namely in Mid-Lothian,” and it has a glossary running...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2005
..., Rachel (whom he promptly
renames Virginia as a tribute to de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie), to groom
her into a perfect future wife for himself.13 Hervey’s hare-brained scheme
nearly destroys both him and his ward, for, as they gradually discover, they
are not really attracted to each other...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 January 2004
... to memorize.39 Mitzi Myers treats “The Mouse’s Petition”
as part of the body of Barbauld’s children’s writing, reading the mouse’s sit-
uation as a “characteristic trope for female distress that runs through . . .
[her] oeuvre, along with the birds tormented by bad boys, the hares torn to
bits by hounds...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 50–81.
Published: 01 January 2005
... in English Newspapers 8 1
and reached its zenith in the nineteenth. More specifi cally, the Syrian adventurer
here convinces Massereene to participate in a hare-brained scheme by “artful
sophistry” and lying, qualities frequently attributed to individuals of “Eastern”
heritage and opposed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 January 2010
... morality to make us follow his
precepts and abstain from our “Fellows Blood” (101). One could find any
number of works in the late seventeenth century that advocate humane
treatment of animals. Take, for example, this stirring passage from Mar-
gery Cavendish’s “Hunting of the Hare” (1653...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (3): 23–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
....
I saw yesterday Sr J.[ohn] Stonehouse Mr Hare[’s]—Bro:[ther] in law,1
who told me that he was gon’ that morning to meet our bantering friend
as he goes into ye country; where I suppose his stay will not be long, for ye
King is suddenly expected, and our session will begin, att least I am...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... Chubby, “nought but Belly, Bum, and Bubby34
One finds epigrams about every facial anomaly: small or “gimlet” eyes,
beetle-brows, hare-lips (stretched out like a Cornish pasty), and scars of all
sorts (livid, mottled, spidery). There were ash faces, muffin faces, stub faces
(pitted by smallpox...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 28–57.
Published: 01 January 2018
... finds himself accused
by the local justice of “counteract[ing] the wise designs of our legislators”
in an oblique reference to enclosure opposition (254).28 As Drummond
defends himself for protecting not a poacher but a peasant whose garden
has been destroyed by a hare, Hargrave envisions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 111–142.
Published: 01 April 2012
... March 1678, Henry Hare, Baron Coleraine, for instance, although
the parent of one of Sloane’s patients, invited Sloane to examine a medal he
had obtained for another acquaintance, Mr. Charleton.18
At the same time, Sloane’s writings began to claim a literary serious-
ness for the literature...
