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... miscellany; Sir Robert Walpole's reign as Britain's prime minister had just come to an end, and Pope revised his Dunciad to devastating effect. Out of the mix of political uncertainty and satiric excess emerged The Foundling Hospital for Wit , which ran to six volumes by 1749. It offered a potpourri...

...Roger D. Lund The College of William & Mary 2003 The Ghosts of Epigram, False Wit, and the Augustan Mode Roger D. Lund Le Moyne College Despite the efforts of Augustan poets...

... focused on distinguishing truth from fiction; sometimes, he has been cited as a reliable witness, and often he has been criticized for his apparent fabrications and exaggerations. This essay proposes an alternative approach to questions of truthfulness by focusing instead on how Exquemelin himself...

... London pieces show Ward's wit and blunt humor to good advantage, even as they reveal the breadth of his social vision and sympathies. Taken together, they also display the dynamic evolution of his attempts to combine satire with other forms of literary entertainment, as he moved from satiric travelogue...

...John McTague This article begins with a literary and material analysis of two instances of post- and intra-publication censorship in Poems on Affairs of State, vol. 4 (1707), and The Foundling Hospital for Wit (1743, 1744). As well as illuminating the climate in which political materials were read...

...Alessio Mattana This essay examines the myth of Isaac Newton's modesty in eighteenth‐century Britain. By analyzing both primary sources by and on Newton and scholarship on the concept of “modest witnessing,” this essay argues that a number of actors concerned with Newton's public relevance...

... to preserve the experiences of his fellow Jacobites was intertwined in this handwritten document with his fashioning of his own life as a reader/writer and witness for Jacobite networks. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Jacobites 1745 Rising manuscript Charles Edward...

...Juliet Shields Kenneth McNeil. Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 (Columbus: Ohio State Univ., 2007). Pp. 228. $41.95. ISBN 0-8142-1047-3 Matthew Wickman. The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's “Romantick” Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Philadelphia...

... critical category that deter- mines whether a text merits attention or not. Where no justified satiric target can be identified or no overriding moral purpose assigned, anything amusing ends up as “light verse” or “wit and humor.” These are vast and varied categories that reward exploration. Beyond...

... Dana Y. Rabin Indiana State University At Samuel Prigg’s trial for murder at London’s Old Bailey in May 1746, a witness for the defense testified that Prigg “sometimes . . . has talked wildly, and I have taken him to task as he has been...

..., and behavior of those alleged to be mad in proceedings before civil and criminal courts in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland.13 Statements by witnesses in insanity defenses and in processes for registering guardianships of mentally incapable persons provide a rich and underutilized source...

... too Moral for a Wit.” —Pope, Dialogue I of the Epilogue to the Satires1 Both Sedaris and Pope speculate about what seems to be the unique char- acter of the written artifact, as opposed to the unique character of the spo- ken word. As Robert Scholes pointed out long ago in his introduction...

... son, charming gallant, favorite of elder statesmen of wit, and man of con- science. His self-portrait in the letters served as a complex strategy in the public battle over who would control or own the “Pope billboard” at a time when literary fame meant money in the marketplace. And to a large...

..., on Johnson on wit in the Life of Cowley, O M Brack, Jr., is cited as identifying “an anticipa- tion of the definition of wit as ‘natural and new’ in a note by SJ in his transla- tion of DuResnel’s preface to his translations of Pope” (25n4), and Longinus is identified as the source of Johnson’s idea...

... and obscene matters (that is to say) in one part thereof According to the Tenour following (to wit):1 Among the many Unspeakable Benefi ts which redound to the World from the Christian Religion, no one makes a more conspicuous Figure than the Demolition of Pederasty. That celebrated Passion, Seal’d...

... Helen Burke Florida State University Teg has been here, and to this learned Pit, With Irish action slander’d English Wit. You have beheld such barbr’ous Mac’s appear, As merited a second Massacre; Such as like Cain were branded with disgrace, And had...

... witnesses. Wright demonstrates how the rising novel enabled conservative authors to entice readers with “nostalgic fantasies of a continuation of rigid social hierarchy” by first promising them “an access portal into legal systems that were bewildering and opaque.” And yet, as Defending Privilege 's...

... of the two poems, “The Dream,” is unattributed in the body of the miscellany, but the second has a footnote explaining that “a fam’d Female Wit” assisted in translating the poem from de la Fontaine, and referring to a story “too well known among the Beau Monde to want a key” (Court Poems Part II, 13...

...-spirited wit as a talent nourished and encouraged in the classroom; their cleverness was itself a product of the school, and their ostensibly carefree play in verse was in fact careful and carefully directed exercise. Recognizing the value of play was not the invention of Westminster: Plato...

... Eighteenth-Century Life engraving featuring the clever juxtaposition of several perspectival tricks and illusions. Bender argues that Hogarth promotes his viewer s exercise of exper- imental witnessing as she works through representations of scenes that she cannot actually witness: Bender treats reading...