Eighteenth Century
- Robert Lowth, Bishop of London, Hebraist and English grammarian
- Edward Wortley Montagu, author
- William Whitehead, Poet Laureate
- William Collins, poet
- Joseph Warton, literary critic and Headmaster of Winchester
- William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, famed rake and gambler
- Thomas Warton, Poet Laureate
- James Woodforde, clergyman and diarist
- George Isaac Huntingford, Bishop of Hereford and Gloucester
- Thomas Burgess, author
- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister
- John Hawkins, geologist, traveller, and Fellow of the Royal Society
- William Lisle Bowles, poet
- Sydney Smith, essayist and satirist
- Richard Mant, Church of Ireland bishop and writer
- William Buckland, geologist
- William Ward, cricketer
- John Bettesworth-Trevanion, MP
- Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby
- Walter Farquhar Hook, Tractarian vicar of Leeds
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“Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
“F.R. Leavis’s ‘eat up your broccoli’ approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel—for the eighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions—did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)