May 2011
1 post
October 2010
17 posts
18thcentury:
Silk dress - British ca. 1780 (via)
July 2010
1 post
Dead Writers Club: Happy Deathday Mr. Wilmot! →
On July 26th in 1680, the Second Earl of Rochester and perhaps the most debauched libertine poet to ever live, died of syphilis at the age of 33. That “debauched” man was John Wilmot.
Wilmot, who was a friend of King Charles II and infamous across London during the Restoration period, was a…
Lord Rochester is why FYRE exists in the first place.
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
3 posts
: Letter Sunday →
Letter to Mr. James Boswell from Samuel Johnson. “Boswell, to whom we owe the great biography, though thirty years his junior, was a lifelong and well-loved friend” (via) ___
To Mr. Boswell Johnson’s Court, Fleet St., January 14, 1766
Dear Sir, - Apologies are seldom of any use. We will delay…
March 2010
1 post
December 2009
20 posts
“Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as...”
– Samuel Johnson (via kendalllouise)
(via libraryland)
“Must we throw aside the pictures of our ancestors, because of their ruffs and...”
– David Hume, “On The Standard of Taste”
(Note: ruff = stiff collar, fardingale = hoop skirt)
November 2009
22 posts
“He could write the ‘Life of a Broomstick’”
– James Boswell, on Samuel Johnson
“Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more...”
– Samuel Johnson, Ramber no. 60 (on Biography)
“Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all WAS right originally: a crowd of...”
– Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication on the Rights of Woman.
