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Old & New Foundling Hospitals for Wit in the Age of the Digital Miscellanies Index
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 116–141.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and its sequel, The New Foundling Hospital for Wit (1768-73), came about, we need to probe its printers, booksellers, and editors, whose names, more often than not, are omitted or disguised. Ornaments provide one key to determining who printed what. The Foundling Hospital for Wit appears to have been...
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Enlightened “Museums of Images” or Decorative Displays? Elizabeth Seymour Percy and the Eighteenth-Century Print Room
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 135–157.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Louise Voll Box In the second half of the eighteenth century, “print rooms”—created by pasting prints and paper ornaments directly onto walls—were a short-lived mode of fashionable English interior decoration. Concurrently, collections of prints continued to be bound into albums or stored...
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in Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1. A leaf from Durham University Library, GB-0033-PCD MS 9, showing Sister Cecily Joseph's elegant hand and her use of lineation and ornament as tools to shape the devotional experience. Courtesy of the Durham University Library and Collections. Photograph by the author.
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Contesting Women's Learning and Fashion: Ann Murry's Moral Zoological System in the Lady's Magazine
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
... engraved exclusively for the Lady's Magazine. The fashion reports regularly mentioned deluxe dresses trimmed with animal fur and headdresses ornamented with colorful feathers from various birds. In addition to the monthly fashion reports, articles such as “Ladies’ Dresses on her Majesty's Birth-Day...
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Folk and Classic Intertwined
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 99–104.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... The typically bare settings of William
Thomson and James Oswald earlier in the eighteenth century, may well, in
actual performance, have been presented with a lavish garnishing of impro-
vised ornament by players well versed in baroque instrumental practice. As the
taste for improvisation waned, people...
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“Gingerbread and sippets of embroidery”: Horace Walpole and Robert Adam
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 147–169.
Published: 01 April 2001
... Northumberland” (Correspondence, 38:429).
Clearly, Walpole was deeply impressed by Adam’s imaginative trans-
formation of a long, narrow, and low-vaulted space into an elegant li-
brary, embellished with a profusion of ornamental plasterwork, set off by
an elaborate...
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Illustrated Pocket Diaries and the Commodification of Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... advertise-
ment, stressing the improved paratextual makeup of the publication and
detailing the subjects of the engraved plates included.16 The volume was
“Ornamented with Elegant Historical Engravings to each month, and a
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View of Gibraltar, with the burning...
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Vortigern, Rowena, and the Ancient Britons: Historical Art and the Anglicization of National Origin
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2000
... with it. Geoffrey, who also wrote for a Welsh audience, added the
ornaments of another legend to Nennius’ scenario. From the Norse
Ynglingasaga, he pulled the tale of King Granmar, who bade his daughter
Hildigunna to seduce his potential enemy, King Hiovard of the Vikings,
with a silver bowl of wine...
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The Moral Negotiation of Fashion in Regency England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
... the present rage for ornamental Education & for articial manners. 26 More blasted those women who worshipped at the shrine of fashion, privileging exter- nal acquirements over piety.27 In similar vein, Larpent saw fashion leaders as a cancer infecting the body politic.28 She had disavowed cosmopolitan...
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The Arts of Beauty: Women's Cosmetics and Pope's Ekphrasis
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
... feature of eighteenth-century representation
(the tension between the mutually constitutive categories of dress and
undress), but leaves the question of ornament on its own unanswered.
This essay is concerned with Pope’s attitudes towards ornament—
both...
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“The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form”: The Histrionic Mirror and Georgian-Era Performance
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in theater embellishment.12 Much of
what made the Adams’ style unique was their attention to large-scale wall
ornamentation, and plate glass had already featured heavily in the brothers’
work, the Glass Drawing Room at Northumberland House being the most
famous example.13 Commissioned by the Duke...
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First and Last
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 118–124.
Published: 01 September 2014
... “accidentals.” In
spite of current interest in Richardson’s books as material objects, the loss of
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typography, catchwords, printers’ ornaments, and original layout goes silently
unrecorded in all print editions, including this one...
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Hume's “Supplement to Gulliver ”: The Medieval Volumes of The History of England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.
Published: 01 April 2001
... of—or at least an
enlightened indifference toward—changing fashions in preening and
sexual practice: in other words, towards things clerical historians had re-
viled. Hume drolly recounts the bitter denunciation of long hair and fan-
cifully ornamented shoes at the court...
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“Extraneous Bodies”: The Contagion of Live-Tooth Transplantation in Late-Eighteenth-Century England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 21–68.
Published: 01 January 2004
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of healthy teeth for mastication, but insistently call attention to their impor-
tance for how one speaks— which has social implications— and for what
is usually dubbed “the ornament of the mouth” or “the ornament of the
face.”12 Taking the health benefits of sound teeth for granted, Fauchard
emphasizes...
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Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figure 1. A leaf from Durham University Library, GB-0033-PCD MS 9, showing Sister Cecily Joseph's elegant hand and her use of lineation and ornament as tools to shape the devotional experience. Courtesy of the Durham University Library and Collections. Photograph by the author. ...
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Miscellaneous Spaces of Enlightenment: Dodsley, Percy, and the Midcentury Verse Miscellany
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... represented with the utmost Advantage, with all the Ornaments of both Wit and Language, and in the clearest, fullest, strongest Light.” 6 Wesley ambitiously combines moral, poetic, and intellectual illumination: all are to be found in his collection. In these three examples, and in other more familiar...
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Novissima Sinica
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 88–90.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., and, indeed, may have influ-
enced it profoundly, but they remained largely extraneous or simply interesting,
nonessential offshoots of the Great Western Tradition. Consider chinoiserie,
formerly characterized as a superficial ornament only, or as something that as a
matter of taste might wax and wane...
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Hugh Blair, Robert Burns, and the Invention of Scottish Literature
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 25–46.
Published: 01 April 2005
... and incorrect language, he then qualifi es his enthusiasm
for excessive linguistic refi nement:
I will not deny that the love of minute elegance, and attention to inferior
ornaments of composition, may at present have engrossed too great a
degree of the public regard. It is indeed my opinion...
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Collections Curieuses: The Aesthetics of Curiosity and Elite Lifestyle in Eighteenth-Century Paris
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 44–75.
Published: 01 September 2005
... provided a contrast with the shells. The optical impact
could be enhanced even further by building small boxes out of wooden
slats on the base of the drawer. Each ornamental partition would then
contain a shell that, as was the case in Bonnier de La Mosson’s shell cabi-
net, might lie on satin...
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“Everlasting Memorials”: Urban Improvement and the Shadow of Ruin in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 34–50.
Published: 01 September 2021
... was that Britain's progress in the arts did not correspond to its commercial and military prowess, nor rival the cultural achievements of its continental neighbors. As early as 1734, A Critical Review of the Publick Buildings, Statues, and Ornaments , a work normally attributed to the poet, playwright, historian...
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