David Hume

The heroine of this novel is unhappy in her marriage (two small children) to an ebullient and overbearing young actor. She is stuck with his theatre company in its seven-month season in Hereford (the birthplace...

For this anthology EF gathered mostly improving pedagogical material, drawing on revered literary names like Shakespeare and Milton , as well as more recent and controversial writers like Thomas Chatterton and Helen Maria Williams ...

She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert , Charles Causley , Philip Larkin , J. M. W. Turner , Caravaggio , Chardin , Goya , Hume , and Descartes . A sequence...

MAK says that her first publication, hastily written and apparently unidentified, consisted of two little tales, which fell dead-born from the press. Since this phrase is borrowed from David Hume , it sets herself in...

The novel opens with a philosophical dialogue (between males) which makes reference to Voltaire , Hume , Rousseau , and Godwin 's Caleb Williams. Its subtitle sounds like a pointer to autobiographical content, and...

Some reviewers expressed unease about the blending of history with fiction; but even they felt no embarrassment at commending Lee in the same breath and in the same terms as her sources, William Robertson 's...

By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume (who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)...

Though CM 's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray and Horace Walpole thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we...

Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. She was entering a debate previously carried on among such...

Marishall then turned to Edinburgh's Canongate Theatre , only to have Foote (who had become manager there in November 1770) waste a whole season promising to put it on soon. In the end, after...

Portraits of EM include one by Allan Ramsay , done in 1762, which shows her as an intellectual (she has been reading Hume 's History). Though her body is wrapped in expensive lace, her...

Meanwhile KN read for herself outside the syllabus while she was at Oxford, particularly Dante and French literature, and composed intellectual biographies of philosophers like Hume and Kant .

From early adolescence KN tried to write poetry. This, she felt, was an effort at maturation, using poetry as an attempt . . . to establish the conception of the subjective-real. At...

The poem shows a good sense of history. It defends Richard I against Hume 's condemnation, using a very up-to-date scientific metaphor to express EAP 's opinions about historiography: A blind admiration for the Great...

The exiled JJR travelled from Paris to London in company with the philosopher David Hume , who had invited him to Britain at the urging of some of Rousseau's supporters in France.