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... literary patrons, notably David Hume, Joseph Spence, James Beattie, and Henry Mackenzie. The discussion focuses upon Blacklock’s substantial vernacular verse epistle “To the Revd Mr. Oliver On receiving a collection of Scotch poems from him,” published here for the first time in its entirety (see appendix...

...Seth Stein LeJacq R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8794000 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 1 1 4 London, by Accident Seth Stein LeJacq Duke University Craig Spence. Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London, 1650...

....12 Despite defending hierarchical social relations, such writers thus made it possible to represent the noisy shoemaker, however comic, as an embodiment of English liberty. This, at least, was the conclusion that Thomas Spence came to in the 1790s. In his radical magazine, Pigs’ Meat...

... to close the book and dismiss its essentially social proj- ect. On the one hand, Richardson agreed with his friend Joseph Spence, who remarked that the “pangs” readers feel when reading Clarissa’s death “should be looked upon like the Incisions made by a kind Surgeon . . . who gives them only out...

...- tenance and mental state was assumed by laypeople. Curiously, most of those who commented on facial expression, and in particular on the eyes of the criminally insane, were women. For example, fifteen-year-old Katharine Angus told the Justiciary Court about a frenzied attack Robert Spence had made...

..., a wild ‘rapture’ (in the literal sense), perhaps almost a frenzy, seems to have made itself visible . . . ​and to have caused comment.” Pope’s sister told Spence in 1728, “My brother has a maddish way with him,” and Spence added: “Little people mistook the excess of his genius for mad- ness” (Mack...

... William, but it had been almost a quarter century since Lady Mary wrote to her sister about the Schemers, and presumably just as long since she wrote “Epistle from Mrs. Y.” Was this an error when making up the collection? Joseph Spence, who selected Lady Mary’s poems for Dods- ley, knew Lady Mary...

.... Printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence. A Seaman. Love and War: In Three Cantos. With Other Poems. London: Printed by C. Stower. George Woodley. Britain's Bulwarks; or, The British Seaman: a Poem . Plymouth Dock: Printed and Sold by L. C. Congon. An Officer of the Royal Navy. The Nun...

... of memoirs or anec- dotes or an early biography, then Best Practice is to use it rather than going back to the original. Few such editions exist, but one exemplary model is James M. Osborn’s magisterial edition of Joseph Spence’s Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men Collected from...

..., either formal or natural techniques may be used, but not because they are formal or natural. “All the rules of gardening are reducible to three heads,” Joseph Spence records Pope as remarking, “the contrasts, the management of surprises, and the concealment of the bounds.” In his “Epistle...

...-8014-3945-0 Beal, Joan C. English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence’s ‘Grand Repository of the English Language’ (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1999). Pp. 239. $105. isbn 0-19-823781-2 Beatty, John D., ed. Protestant Women’s...

... of the first page, Bull placed an engraved profile head of Antonius Magliabechus Florentinum, drawn from a medal and used to illustrate Sir Joseph Spence s Parallel; in the Manner of Plu- tarch: between a most celebrated man of Florence; and one, scarce ever heard of, in England (1758), shortened to Spence...

... Works, and as such was designed to place Browne in the distinguished line of new scientists. In 1686, Ferrand Spence published Miscellanea by Charles de Saintevremond, a volume that includes essays outlining the author’s polite disdain for the meddlings of humanist textual criticism...

... reveal two centuries of continuing desire to give Will the love life for which we have so little evidence.11 Similarly, the biopic Becoming Jane (2007), loosely based upon a biography by Jon Spence, constitutes an attempt to fill in the romantic gaps for Jane.12 In some sense, all biographies...

... (1817), which opens with Sir Walter Elliot obsessively reread- ing his copy of The Baronetage of  England (1808), may provide a clue about how to read Sense and Sensibility.2 As Jon Spence remarks about Jane Aus- ten’s own family connections to the landed gentry and peerage, “she was almost...

... William Robinson s magnificent mod- ern version, English Theatrical Literature, 1559 1900, published by the Society for Theatre Research in 1970 a book anyone dealing in eighteenth- century theater history needs to know and use. A second: why cite the utterly obsolete 1820 edition of Joseph Spence s...