| Additional Resources |
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xv | |
| Preface |
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xvii | |
| Acknowledgments |
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xxiii | |
| About the Editors |
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xxix | |
| The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century |
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Illustration. Thomas Bowles, The Bubblers' Medley, or a Sketch of the Times, 1720 |
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1980 | (1) |
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The Restoration And The Eighteenth Century At A Glance |
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1981 | (4) |
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1985 | (25) |
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Monarchs, Ministers, Empire |
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1986 | (5) |
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Money, Manners, And Theatrics |
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1991 | (8) |
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Color Plate
20. Sir Peter Lely, Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine |
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21. Johann Zoffany, Queen Charlotte with Her Two Eldest Sons |
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Color Plate
22. Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Abington as "Miss Prue" |
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Color Plate
23. Marcellus Laroon, Charles II as President of the Royal Society |
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Color Plate
24. Joseph Wright, A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery |
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Color Plate
25. Joseph Wright, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump |
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Color Plate 26 William Hogarth, The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 11 |
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Color Plate
27. William Hogarth, Hogarth's Servants |
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Color Plate
28. Thomas Gainsborough, Cottage Door with Children Playing |
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Faith And Knowledge, Thought And Feeling |
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1999 | (2) |
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Writers, Readers, Conversations |
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2001 | (7) |
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2008 | (2) |
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Illustration. Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Abington as "Miss Prue," 1771 |
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2009 | (1) |
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2010 | (29) |
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Illustration. John Hayls, Samuel Pepys, 1666 |
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2010 | (1) |
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2011 | (14) |
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2011 | (2) |
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[ The Coronation of Charles II] |
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2013 | (2) |
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2015 | (6) |
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2021 | (4) |
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Pepys's Diary And Its Time: John Evelyn from Kalendarium |
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2025 | (12) |
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2027 | (4) |
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2031 | (1) |
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[ Elizabeth Pepys and Deborah Willett] |
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2032 | (5) |
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Response: Robert Louis Stevenson: from Samuel Pepys |
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2037 | (2) |
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Perspectives: The Royal Society and the New Science |
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2039 | (19) |
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2040 | (3) |
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from The History of the Royal Society of London |
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2041 | (2) |
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Philosophical Transactions |
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2043 | (3) |
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from Philosophical Transactions |
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2043 | (3) |
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2046 | (7) |
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2047 | (3) |
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Illustration. Robert Hooke, Schema ii: Needle Point and Period, from Micrographia |
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2050 | (3) |
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Illustration. Robert Hooke, Schema xxxiv: A Flea, from Micrographia |
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2053 | (1) |
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2053 | (5) |
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2054 | (4) |
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle |
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2058 | (16) |
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2059 | (15) |
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The Poetress's Hasty Resolution |
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2059 | (1) |
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2060 | (1) |
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An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book |
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2060 | (1) |
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2060 | (3) |
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from A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life |
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2063 | (5) |
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Observations upon Experimental Philosophy |
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2068 | (2) |
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Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses |
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2068 | (2) |
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The Description of a New Blazing World |
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2070 | (4) |
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2070 | (1) |
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2071 | (1) |
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[ Empress, Duchess, Dukel |
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2072 | (1) |
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2073 | (1) |
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2074 | (51) |
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Illustration. Godfrey Kneller, John Dryden |
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2074 | (3) |
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Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem |
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2077 | (25) |
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Absalom And Achitophel And Its Time (Web) |
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2102 | (6) |
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham |
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2108 | (1) |
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To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew (Web) |
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2109 | (4) |
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Fables Ancient and Modern |
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2113 | (9) |
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2113 | (9) |
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2122 | (3) |
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2125 | (59) |
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Illustration. Robert White, line engraving of Aphra Behn |
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2125 | (1) |
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2126 | (4) |
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To Lysander, on Some Verses He Writ |
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2130 | (1) |
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To Lysander at the Music-Meeting |
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2131 | (1) |
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A Letter to Mr. Creech at Oxford |
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2132 | (3) |
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To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman |
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2135 | (2) |
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2137 | (47) |
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Response: Thomas Southerne: from Oroonoko: A Tragedy |
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2178 | (6) |
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Perspectives: Coterie Writing |
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2184 | (18) |
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2184 | (2) |
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2184 | (1) |
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2185 | (1) |
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Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea |
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2186 | (6) |
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2187 | (1) |
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Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia |
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2188 | (1) |
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2189 | (1) |
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A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger Farm in Hampshire |
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2190 | (2) |
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2192 | (10) |
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2192 | (2) |
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2194 | (1) |
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An Epistle to Artemisia. On Fame |
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2195 | (5) |
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2200 | (1) |
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The Epistle of Deborah Dough |
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2201 | (1) |
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John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester |
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2202 | (11) |
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2203 | (1) |
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2204 | (1) |
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Song ("Love a woman? You're an ass!") |
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2205 | (1) |
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2205 | (2) |
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2207 | (1) |
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A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind |
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2208 | (5) |
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2213 | (70) |
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2215 | (68) |
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2283 | (10) |
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from Some Reflections upon Marriage |
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2284 | (9) |
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2293 | (17) |
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A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal |
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2296 | (6) |
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A Journal of the Plague Year |
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2302 | (8) |
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2302 | (3) |
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Illustration. John Dunstall, Scenes from the Plague in London, 1665 2304, |
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2305 | (1) |
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[ Encounter with a Waterman] |
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2306 | (4) |
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Perspectives: Reading Papers |
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2310 | (27) |
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2311 | (5) |
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from Mercurius Publicus [ Anniversary of the Regicide] |
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2311 | (1) |
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from The London Gazette [ The Fire of London] |
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2312 | (1) |
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from The Daily Courant No. 1 [ Editorial Policy] |
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2313 | (1) |
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Daniel Defoe: from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 4, No. 21 [ The New Union] |
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2314 | (2) |
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2316 | (12) |
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Richard Steele: from Tatler No. 1 [ Introducing Mr. Bickerstaff] |
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2317 | (2) |
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Joseph Addison: from Spectator No. 1 [ Introducing Mr. Spectator] |
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2319 | (3) |
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from The Female Spectator, Vol. 1, No. 1 [ The Author's Intent] |
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2322 | (2) |
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Richard Steele: from Tatler No. 18 [ The News Writers in Danger] |
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2324 | (1) |
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Joseph Addison: from Tatler No. 155 [ The Political Upholsterer] |
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2324 | (2) |
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Joseph Addison: from Spectator No. 10 [ The Spectator and Its Readers] |
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2326 | (2) |
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Getting, Spending, Speculating |
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2328 | (9) |
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Illustration. The Gentleman's Magazine |
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2329 | (1) |
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Joseph Addison: Spectator No. 69 [ Royal Exchange] |
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2330 | (1) |
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Illustration. Sutton Nicholls, The Royal Exchange |
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2331 | (2) |
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Richard Steele: Spectator No. 11 [ Inkle and Yarico] |
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2333 | (2) |
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Daniel Defoe: from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 1, No. 43 [ Weak Foundations] |
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2335 | (2) |
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Advertisements from the Spectator |
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2337 | (1) |
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Women And Men, Manners, And Marriage (Web) |
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2337 | (101) |
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Illustration. Charles Jervas, Jonathan Swift |
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2337 | (3) |
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A Description of the Morning |
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2340 | (1) |
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A Description of a City Shower |
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2341 | (2) |
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2343 | (1) |
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2344 | (2) |
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2346 | (6) |
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Response: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room |
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2350 | (2) |
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Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. |
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2352 | (14) |
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2366 | (4) |
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2366 | (4) |
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2370 | (61) |
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from Part
3. A Voyage to Laputa |
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2371 | (10) |
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Part
4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms |
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2381 | (50) |
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Gulliver's Travels And Its Time |
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2426 | (1) |
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from Letters on Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope |
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2427 | (1) |
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Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift |
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2427 | (1) |
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John Gay to Jonathan Swift |
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2428 | (1) |
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Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope |
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2429 | (1) |
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"The Prince of Lilliput" to Stella |
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2430 | (1) |
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2431 | (7) |
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A Modest Proposal And Its Time |
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2437 | (1) |
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William Petty from' Political Arithmetic |
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2437 | (1) |
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2438 | (105) |
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Illustration. William Hoare, Sketch of Alexander Pope |
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2438 | (2) |
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2440 | (18) |
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2458 | (12) |
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2470 | (21) |
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2491 | (1) |
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from Book 12 [ Sarpedon's Speech] |
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2491 | (1) |
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2492 | (9) |
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2501 | (8) |
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2501 | (1) |
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2501 | (1) |
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2502 | (7) |
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An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot |
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2509 | (12) |
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An Epistle To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women |
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2521 | (1) |
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Epistle
2. To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women |
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2521 | (10) |
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2528 | (3) |
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Mary Leapor: An Essay on Woman |
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2528 | (3) |
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from The Dunciad in Four Books |
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2531 | (12) |
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2531 | (11) |
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2542 | (1) |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
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2543 | (12) |
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from The Turkish Embassy Letters |
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2544 | (4) |
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To Lady--[ On the Turkish Baths] |
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2544 | (2) |
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To Lady Mar [ On Turkish Dress] |
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2546 | (2) |
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Letter to Lady Bute [ On Her Granddaughter] |
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2548 | (3) |
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Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband |
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2551 | (2) |
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2553 | (2) |
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2555 | (48) |
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2557 | (46) |
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"The Beggar's Opera" And Its Time |
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Influences and Impact (Web) |
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2603 | (10) |
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2605 | (8) |
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Perspectives: Mind and God |
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2613 | (32) |
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2614 | (3) |
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from Letter to Richard Bentley |
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2615 | (2) |
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2617 | (5) |
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from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
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2618 | (4) |
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2622 | (5) |
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A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy |
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2623 | (1) |
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The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders |
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2623 | (2) |
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Against Idleness and Mischief |
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2625 | (1) |
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Man Frail, and God Eternal |
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2625 | (1) |
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Miracles Attending Israel's Journey |
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2626 | (1) |
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2627 | (2) |
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2627 | (2) |
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2629 | (2) |
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from Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous |
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2629 | (2) |
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2631 | (6) |
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from A Treatise of Human Nature |
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2632 | (3) |
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from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
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2635 | (2) |
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2637 | (4) |
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2638 | (3) |
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2641 | (4) |
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Light Shining out of Darkness |
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2642 | (1) |
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2642 | (1) |
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2643 | (2) |
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2645 | (20) |
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2646 | (4) |
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[ Autumn Evening and Night] |
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2646 | (3) |
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2649 | (1) |
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2650 | (5) |
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2650 | (5) |
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2655 | (10) |
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"The Seasons" And Its Time |
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Poems of Nightfall and Night |
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2656 | (1) |
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Edward Young from The Complaint |
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2656 | (1) |
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William Collins Ode to Evening |
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2659 | (1) |
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Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson |
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2660 | (1) |
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William Cowper from The Task |
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2662 | (3) |
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2665 | (9) |
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Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West |
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2666 | (1) |
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Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College |
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2667 | (2) |
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Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes |
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2669 | (1) |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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2670 | (4) |
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Illustration. James Barry, Samuel Johnson |
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2674 | (3) |
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The Vanity of Human Wishes |
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2677 | (9) |
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A Short Song of Congratulation |
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2686 | (1) |
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On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet |
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2686 | (1) |
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2688 | (3) |
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