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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2007
...David Fallon Duke University Press 2007
“That Angel Who Rides on the Whirlwind”:
William Blake’s Oriental Apotheosis
of William Pitt
David Fallon
University College, Oxford...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Lesley Thulin In Deformity: An Essay (1754), William Hay offers an autobiographical account of his life as a hunchbacked member of the House of Commons, followed by an appendix, titled “My Case,” which details an experimental health regimen he adopted to treat the more quotidian ailment of chronic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Robert L. S. Cowley [email protected] J. B. Bullen , Caroline Patey , Cynthia E. Roman , George Letissier , eds. Enduring Presence: William Hogarth's British and European Afterlives , book 1: Aesthetic, Visual, and Performative Cultures , Cultural Interactions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 66–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Janet Sorensen [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The power of the shipwreck motif in William Falconer's The Shipwreck derives in part from an oscillation between, on the one hand, the tragic distance of the spectator or reader from the unfolding...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 87–105.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Julia Banister One month after the publication of his poem on merchant seafaring, The Shipwreck (1762), William Falconer left merchant sailing to become a junior officer in the Royal Navy. In the midcentury, many commentators believed that the Royal Navy's sailors were superior to merchant sailors...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 188–215.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Bridget Keegan The essay examines the history of poetry written by sailors from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. William Falconer's The Shipwreck (1762, 1764 and 1769) inspired many seamen to turn poet and to write about their experiences at sea. Falconer's influence is seen in how...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 13–45.
Published: 01 April 2023
...William Jones William Falconer (1732–1770) suffered a catastrophic shipwreck as a young man, which became the subject of his celebrated poem The Shipwreck (1762), with revised and extended editions in 1764 and 1769. He is also the compiler of the Dictionary of the Marine which remained the standard...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 217–235.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Alexis Chema In this essay, I will analyze William Wordsworth's commonplace book, DC MS26, alongside his poetic and critical statements on the idea of the commonplace in order to reevaluate his stance on book reading, especially on the role of books in rural life. Although his actual commonplace...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 61–87.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Ronald Paulson; Ashley Marshall William Hogarth and Richard Steele were in many ways part of the same intellectual and religiopolitical milieu, one that also links them both to the radical Whig cleric Benjamin Hoadly. Modern scholars have almost always connected Steele to Joseph Addison...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 166–187.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jamie M. Bolker This essay explores how William Falconer's A Universal Dictionary of the Marine exemplifies the “rhetoric of the sea,” which operates according to an inclusive approach to maritime knowledge, which maritime authors adopted in an effort to translate into writing a unique, physical...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 216–260.
Published: 01 April 2023
...William Jones The first two leaves (34v, 35r) contain drafts of the lyric...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 1. William Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress , engraving (1732), 11 13/16 x 15 1/2 in. (HGW, No. 121). Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 2. William Wynne Ryland, George III , after Allan Ramsay (1767), line engraving, 25 ⅝ in. × 17 ¼ in., National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D9649. Courtesy National Portrait Gallery.
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 7. William Hogarth, David Garrick as Richard III (ca. 1745), oil on canvas, 190.5 cm × 250.8 cm, detail, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, WAG 634. Courtesy Walker Art Gallery.
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 12. John Cheere , William Shakespeare (ca. 1749), bronzed plaster statuette, 49.2 cm × 31.2 cm, Castle Museum, York, YORAG: 2004.23. Courtesy York Castle Museum.
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in Before the Reporter's Notebook: The Oblong Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1. William Billings, The New-England Psalm Singer (1770). Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.
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in Before the Reporter's Notebook: The Oblong Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 11. Rudiments of Music (Cheshire: William Law, 1790). Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1. William Hogarth, plate 4 from The Four Times of Day series, 44.5 × 36.9 cm (image), 48.0 × 38.2 cm (sheet, trimmed with platemark), 2nd of two states. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Gift of John H. Connell, 1917.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 23–56.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Thora Brylowe Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 R
Two Kinds of Collections:
Sir William Hamilton’s Vases,
Real and Represented
Thora Brylowe
Carnegie Mellon...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (3): 23–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Adrian C. Lashmore-Davies Duke University Press 2008 R
The Correspondence of
Henry St. John and
Sir William Trumbull, 1698 – 1710
Edited by
Adrian C. Lashmore...
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