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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Sandro Jung In a reading of James Thomson's The Seasons that largely draws on the history of the book and the fields of print culture and illustration studies, I offer a narrative of the changing interpretation of the poem between 1730 and 1797. Not only did readers, in response to changes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Heidi Thomson Duke University Press 2008 R A Connection between Chatterton and Wordsworth in Two Coleridge Poems Heidi Thomson Victoria University of Wellington Chatterton’s precocious display...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 103–106.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Jeffrey Barnouw Koch Erec R. . The Aesthetic Body: Passion, Sensibility, and Corporeality in Seventeenth-Century France ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2008 ). Pp. 390 . $75 Thomson Ann . Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 162–167.
Published: 01 April 2016
... shows the influence of James Thomson’s Winter (1726), in which a solitary shepherd perishes outdoors, while in Dunkin, entire families die at their hearths as nature’s lethal force penetrates the domestic realm. By contrast, Whyte, whose collected poems are forthcoming in an edition by Michael...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 January 2001
... as an influential patron of a number of predominantly male poets including James Thomson, John Dyer, Stephen Duck, Richard Savage, and George Shenstone. Although Rowe did not benefit financially from her associa- tions with Lady Hertford, their ongoing acquaintance and correspon...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 99–104.
Published: 01 September 2010
... evocation of the “innocent,” the “rustic,” and the “wild.” He discusses the work of Allan Ram- say, William Thomson, James Oswald, and William McGibbon, showing how the question of origins quickly arose with William Thomson claiming Queen Mary’s secretary, David Rizzio, as author of many...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 76–84.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... One passing remark on Johnson’s judgment of Thomson’s poems, where Lonsdale starts by assuming Johnson is unsympathetic to Thomson, seems, however, a judgment upon Johnson that is more open to question. This is the key passage: He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 January 2004
... stimulate “the ‘natural affections,’ expressions of kind- ness and tenderness for orphans, animals, widows, and aged men.”7 By way of illustration, she cites James Thomson’s four-book poem The Seasons (written 1726–46), which features many poignant descriptions of animal suffering at the hands of nature...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of their editions, which were more modest than the ambitious illustrated subscription ventures in larger formats of the works of Shakespeare, James Thomson, and Edward Young. Cadell and Davies's edition of The Shipwreck was the first to include a series of text-interpretive plates, the inclusion...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 49–66.
Published: 01 April 2003
.... But even Thomson’s usual surgeon dwelled on this aspect, speaking of “a maniacal expression distinctly marked in his counte- nance.” George had had an attack of palsy some time previously, which was observable “in the upper lid of one of his eyes. his eye was sometime fixed and at other times had...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 13–45.
Published: 01 April 2023
... The Shipwreck —for a sense of his literary education. We know that by 1750–51, Falconer had developed his reading and writing to the point of composing a technically competent elegiac poem, which reveals that he had read one of the most popular poems of the period: James Thomson's Winter . He had demonstrably...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 179–196.
Published: 01 January 2017
... needed to be manageably short. Yet major poems of the eighteenth century, such as Thomson’s Seasons and Akenside’s Pleasures of Imagination, ran into thousands of lines, and therefore had entirely differ- ent posthumous identities as short excerpts, in miscellany culture. So, for example...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... had produced a (pirated) edition of James Thomson’s popular poem, The Sea- sons, for which he was sued by Thomas Becket, who had purchased the copyright from Thomson’s bookseller, Andrew Millar. Becket claimed that he possessed the perpetual and exclusive copyright for printing The Seasons...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and, in turn, catered to demand for such items as chairs embroidered with such fash- ionable visual media as William Kent s illustrations of John Gay s Fables, porcelain featuring iconic scenes derived from prints illustrating such pop- ular works as James Thomson s The Seasons, Salomon Gessner s Death of Abel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 133–147.
Published: 01 January 2021
... texts by the physicians George Thomson, Thomas Sydenham, and the iat- rochemist George Starkey, to lay the groundwork for her argument. She finds that in seventeenth- century chemical science, the human body is not marked by impenetrability but perviousness (114). Boyle compares the porousness of skin...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 10–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
...                  1243.15.9 No interest has been made on this Cash balance as it has been lying at Messrs Hoares & Co Bankers 24 Mr Thomson House Rent 25 60. Miss Smith House expenses 50. Godfrey and Co Chemists 26 21.5.6½ Pugh and Son Coals 27 21.14.0 Henry watch maker 28...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in Britain — in the benevolent deism of Thomson, the bourgeois morality of Richardson, the 120 Eighteenth-Century Life reformist novels of Sarah Scott and Sarah Fielding, or the comic-erotic aes- thetics of Sterne — determines how one defines its longer trajectory. For Nagle, sensibility begins...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 78–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... series of miniature illustrations of literary texts ranging from such a classic as John Milton s L Allegro to James Thomson s more recent hybrid long poem, The Seasons.6 Originally conceived as decorative elements akin to the vines on which they were etymologically based, vignettes in the course...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 105–126.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of the epic; Butler of the burlesque; Dryden, Pope, and Sam. Johnson, of the ethic, heroic, and satiric; Thomson of the descriptive; Prior of the narrative and epigrammatic; Gray of the lyric and elegiac; Shenstone of the pastoral. Admitting the justice of my criterion for the formation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 119–123.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Globalization and the Placing of Sex (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2003), 63–117. 2.  Ruth P. Thomas, “Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (Marie-Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mézières Riccoboni) (1713–1792 vol. 314 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (New York: Thomson Gale, 2005), 103. • ...