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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 January 2023
... L'Estrange, Henry Sacheverell, and Charles Leslie), it is Leslie, Prince posits, whom Defoe sets his sights on. While Sacheverell and L'Estrange remain in Defoe's scope, Leslie is the primary target not only because the two could not be more opposite in beliefs, both political and theological, but also...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 147–152.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Mattie Burkert [email protected] Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie , eds. English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660 – 1800 ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2022 ). Pp. 298 . 6 b&w ills. $38.95 paper Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 From the Greek...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 117–138.
Published: 01 September 2002
... the governorship of the Shore from the duke of Portland (the governor of Jamaica), and, according to Charles Leslie, “received his Indian Majesty with a great deal of courtesy.”21 Once British superintendents were established on the Shore, however, they took over...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 3–18.
Published: 01 April 2001
...- nality” (p. 27), while Gerard Manley Hopkins hailed this “most masculine of our poets,” whose “style and rhythms lay the strongest stress of all our literature on the naked thew and sinew of the English language.”25 Leslie Stephen also marked Dryden’s “masculine sense...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 66–89.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and immensity of space in The Moralists, Addison’s panegyric to “huge Heaps of Mountains, high Rocks and Precipices” in Spectator 42, Charles Leslie’s distinction between the sublime and the beautiful in his Essay on Design and Beauty (Edinburgh, 739), Thomson’s explicit linkage of the power...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 183–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
... for them both as well as somewhat embarrassing for Fox and for the party. Finally, as Leslie Mitchell has aptly illustrated, the Whigs were notoriously cliquish.36 Birth and wealth were paramount, in their estimation, so while O’Bryen could never overcome that particular obstacle, the value of Ers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 April 2015
...), 497–98. 2.  George Gordon, Lord Byron, entry for 17–18 December 1813, vol. 3 of Byron’s Letters and Journals, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (London: John Murray, 1974), 239. • ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 98–103.
Published: 01 January 2020
... situate major authors such as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Joseph Addison alongside Henry Sacheverell, Charles Leslie, William Pit- tis, John Tutchin, and so forth. The book comprises five chapters, each of which focuses on the cultural response to a political moment or event: Wil- liam III s abrupt...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 56–62.
Published: 01 April 2021
...; the quotation is from 67, and Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, So Late into the Night, Byron s Letters and Journals, vol. 5: 1816 1817, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (London: John Murray, 1976), 265. ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2020
... a mode of marketing of popular songs that continues to this day, for instance, in top 40 s sales campaigns. Publishers often worked up Transcendent Ephemera 2 5 quantities of these cheaply printed single sheets in direct response to spe- cific incidents.16 Leslie Shepard identifies a tension running...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in writing” ( Women , 6). Similarly, though scholars such as Cynthia Leslie White and Iona Italia praise the intellectual content in eighteenth-century women's periodicals, they claim that from the early nineteenth century onward, these informative magazines were supplanted by frivolous or feminized...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., especially 169. 19. Ean High, “The Devil and a Disease: Early Representations of Quaker Women in the Atlantic World,” ELH 87 (2020): 637 – 77; the quotation is from 637. 18. Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 93–100.
Published: 01 April 2021
... inevitable that there will be errors. There are many misspellings and mistranscriptions in this one. Some of the factual errors may mislead and confuse. For example, the index of four- teen pages is restricted mainly to a list of names with page references in the text. The entry for Charles Leslie conflates...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2008
... Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1785 – 1800, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs, vol. 1 of The Collected Letters (Oxford: Clarendon, 1956), 215. 10.  See, for instance, Coleridge’s letter to John Prior Estlin of 4 July 1796 (Collected Letters, 224) and Coleridge’s letter to Thomas Poole, also of 4 July...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 47–90.
Published: 01 April 2005
... to buy,” as the Quaker Richard Richardson writes in his poem “Metamorphoses.”36 Yet the wig does not transform the whole body, but instead creates what Richardson calls “hermaphrodites” (Leslie, 7:467). Thus when Hall writes that “a female head to a male face is marryed now in every place...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2021
... that Grand Tourists spent much of their time pursuing sex and catching diseases was no doubt encouraged by the mid- twentieth- century publication of James Boswell s travel dia- ries (1952 55), and then the unexpurgated Leslie Marchand edition of Byron s Letters and Journals (1973 1982). It would be hard...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 111–127.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., of Mrs. Day, and Thomas Day, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Also, Some Detached Pieces of Poetry (London, 1805); Hitchman, “The Author of ‘Sandford and Merton pp. 334–59; Sir Leslie Stephen, “Tho- mas Day,” DNB, 5:689–91; M. Lockwood, “Thomas Day,” The Nineteenth Century 42 (July 1897): 74–85; Sir...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 147–169.
Published: 01 April 2001
..., both of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Univ. of Hull; also to a number of specialist colleagues including David Alexander, Anna Chalcraft at Strawberry Hill, Dr. Thomas Cocke, Leslie Lewis, Dr. Timothy Mowl, Professor John...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 January 2010
... and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land, ed. Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor (Leicester: Leicester Univ., 1992), 130 – 50; see also Michael Leslie, “The Spiritual Husbandry of John Beale,” in Culture and Cultivation, 151 – 172. 38. Dryden, Works, 12:113 – 115 (III.i 39...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 65–104.
Published: 01 September 2009
... the comparatively common use of embalming, if only among the wealthier sections of seventeenth-century society.”8 In Death, Disease, and 68 Eighteenth-Century Life Famine in Pre-Industrial England (1976), Leslie Clarkson argues that in the seventeenth century, “among the middle and upper classes...