English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jason Guisao | Friends Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jasguis/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Jason Guisao's friends. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:35:08 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f73c68fa29ab70c92102f3b74af6251d Paul Schacht commented on the post, To Mrs. Arabella Fermor, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/to-mrs-arabella-fermor/#comment-332 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:08:42 -0500 The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope. Source: Project Gutenberg.

]]> ab508a7ff6f215db70213b743de844b7 Paul Schacht commented on the post, To Mrs. Arabella Fermor, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/to-mrs-arabella-fermor/#comment-332 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:08:42 -0500 Source: Project Gutenberg.

]]> 314ccf91cc3f42140571579b99873617 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17906/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:04:45 -0500 She said: the pitying audience melt in tears. But Fate and Jove had stopp’d the Baron’s ears. In vain Thalestris with reproach assails, For who can move when fair Belinda fails? Not half so fix’d the […]

]]> 0 af3cc19d10adc4e22e40ff2fc6002c09 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17905/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:02:23 -0500 But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress’d, And secret passions labour’d in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz’d alive, Not scornful virgins who their charms survive, Not ardent lovers robb’d […]

]]> 0 432f686143f57912feabfa8bc6495aba Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17904/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:00:23 -0500 Close by those meads, for ever crown’d with flow’rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow’rs, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighb’ring Hampton takes its name. Here […]

]]> 0 1ffe30017665d349038c618587d1359b Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17903/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:58:08 -0500 Not with more glories, in th’ etherial plain, The Sun first rises o’er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams Launch’d on the bosom of the silver Thames. Fair Nymphs, and well-drest […]

]]> 0 e40805a18e201be6f99fe546c050ff5c Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17902/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:55:03 -0500 What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing — This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due: This, ev’n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, b […]

]]> 0 cbf3949d8ad08e0f655a7271998a60f1 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17901/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:53:21 -0500 The Rape of the Lock An heroi-comical poem Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sed juvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. Mart, [Epigr, XII. 84.] To Mrs. Arabella Fermor Madam, It will be in […]

]]> 0 61438f4604bb06f29dbac064ef51d40e Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17900/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:27:39 -0500 0 29e748de3d40a4bbdffaf6e70b00402f Paul Schacht commented on the post, The Woman's Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-womans-labour-to-mr-stephen-duck/#comment-331 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:39:16 -0500 “The Woman’s Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck,” by Mary Collier. Source: Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive.

]]> e83699d84582027d2a6d5d074af1beeb Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17898/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:35:16 -0500 IMMORTAL Bard! thou Fav’rite of the Nine! Enrich’d by Peers, advanc’d by Caroline! Deign to look down on one that’s poor and low, Remembring you yourself was lately so; Accept these Lines: Alas! what can you […]

]]> 0 1ac15f9896d7a865b4996d53becae52e Paul Schacht commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/town-eclogues-saturday-the-small-pox/#comment-330 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:25:39 -0500 “Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox” by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Source: The Poetry Foundation.

]]> 8aaa753c7485a6ffcf11375ff547cc9b Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17895/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:23:12 -0500 FLAVIA. THE wretched FLAVIA on her couch reclin’d, Thus breath’d the anguish of a wounded mind; A glass revers’d in her right hand she bore, For now she shun’d the face she sought before. ‘How am I chang’d! […]

]]> 0 34f97d8a1ae670decc55782ace02d837 Paul Schacht commented on the post, The Thresher's Labour, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-threshers-labour/#comment-329 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:10:22 -0500 “The Thresher’s Labor,” by Stephen Duck. Source: Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive.

]]> 3c6e73a9bdb2fd2e6dcd45890ff519d0 Paul Schacht commented on the post, The Thresher's Labour, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-threshers-labour/#comment-329 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:10:22 -0500 Source: Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive.

]]> 6676ac2f9ad0ff131c461ed88f96935e Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17893/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:06:16 -0500 To the Revd. Mr. STANLEY. THE grateful Tribute of these rural Lays, Which to her Patron’s Hand the Muse conveys, Deign to accept: ’Tis just she Tribute bring To him, whose Bounty gives her Life to s […]

]]> 0 fb9283f9a2f6875943ecc3aa485fc455 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17546/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:51:31 -0500 The author’s veracity. His design in publishing this work. His censure of those travellers who swerve from the truth. The author clears himself from any sinister ends in writing. An objection answered. The m […]

]]> 0 2cfc45bc51246160c1bc33b1512ad3d6 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17545/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:49:48 -0500 The author’s dangerous voyage. He arrives at New Holland, hoping to settle there. Is wounded with an arrow by one of the natives. Is seized and carried by force into a Portuguese ship. The great civilities of t […]

]]> 0 3c16341833d173f435ff5274bb27dde1 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17544/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:46:13 -0500 The author’s economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms. His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them. Their conversations. The author has notice given him by his master, that he must depart from t […]

]]> 0 51d37d1f185276a1993b8eda3e2da8d8 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17543/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:44:56 -0500 A grand debate at the general assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and how it was determined. The learning of the Houyhnhnms. Their buildings. Their manner of burials. The defectiveness of their language. One of these […]

]]> 0 7f145ca1a2c18d23c6a121232793d7ca Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17542/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:43:22 -0500 The author relates several particulars of the Yahoos. The great virtues of the Houyhnhnms. The education and exercise of their youth. Their general assembly. As I ought to have understood human nature much […]

]]> 0 f08103e1e728b8156485244e305e4649 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17541/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:42:01 -0500 The author’s great love of his native country. His master’s observations upon the constitution and administration of England, as described by the author, with parallel cases and comparisons. His master’s obser […]

]]> 0 c0e4c21d7eeb477d8704521309a08ce5 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17540/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:30:53 -0500 A continuation of the state of England under Queen Anne. The character of a first minister of state in European courts. My master was yet wholly at a loss to understand what motives could incite this race of […]

]]> 0 69d58a04e2481eed5e349ee6f89d2c41 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17539/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:29:00 -0500 The author at his master’s command, informs him of the state of England. The causes of war among the princes of Europe. The author begins to explain the English constitution. The reader may please to o […]

]]> 0 f79b39fb8c37689747e9ec1668734e7c Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17538/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:27:29 -0500 The Houyhnhnms’ notion of truth and falsehood. The author’s discourse disapproved by his master. The author gives a more particular account of himself, and the accidents of his voyage. My master heard me wit […]

]]> 0 7aaf443f6a022061728e36b45064062e Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17537/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:25:47 -0500 The author studies to learn the language. The Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him. The language described. Several Houyhnhnms of quality come out of curiosity to see the author. He gives his master a […]

]]> 0 71c2208c17dce9b41920b3c3f94d49a1 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17536/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:14:52 -0500 The author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his house. The house described. The author’s reception. The food of the Houyhnhnms. The author in distress for want of meat, is at last relieved. His manner of feeding in t […]

]]> 0 1ccba60d570da11474bd53dc8523bb42 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17535/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:12:40 -0500 The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabin, and set him on shore in an unknown land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoos, a strange sort of […]

]]> 0 d828f54611f519a90e470a31a032fb22 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17534/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:11:30 -0500 0 16342b0ab17c0ef2eb2b02984ce24349 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17502/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:36:17 -0500 The author leaves Luggnagg, and sails to Japan. From thence he returns in a Dutch ship to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to England. I thought this account of the struldbrugs might be some entertainment to the […]

]]> 0 9c44463067ddcc3f5b8fff0e53259c65 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17501/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:33:19 -0500 The Luggnaggians commended. A particular description of the Struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject. The Luggnaggians are a polite and generous […]

]]> 0 acfc58695162c05db5c62aecec7941ae Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17500/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:32:04 -0500 A further account of the academy. The author proposes some improvements, which are honourably received. In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my […]

]]> 0 3433c2554e938a4026e712b3d0c4e6c4 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17499/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:30:15 -0500 A further account of the academy. The author proposes some improvements, which are honourably received. In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my […]

]]> 0 d151e8a2067365a4296b9b1cf746d163 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17498/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:28:45 -0500 A further account of the academy. The author proposes some improvements, which are honourably received. In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my […]

]]> 0 02e5e18a1e8d9e4a98cda67ff7060717 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17497/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:27:18 -0500 A further account of the academy. The author proposes some improvements, which are honourably received. In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my […]

]]> 0 c6acbe40661929fde17a475b0f281dc7 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17496/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:24:06 -0500 The author permitted to see the grand academy of Lagado. The academy largely described. The arts wherein the professors employ themselves. This academy is not an entire single building, but a continuation of […]

]]> 0 4eb32af949eebd27e762ba5f38b485fe Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17495/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:18:48 -0500 The author leaves Laputa; is conveyed to Balnibarbi; arrives at the metropolis. A description of the metropolis, and the country adjoining. The author hospitably received by a great lord. His conversation with […]

]]> 0 21deaef44bde6d763fdbedc0e0b442c4 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17494/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:17:25 -0500 A phenomenon solved by modern philosophy and astronomy. The Laputians’ great improvements in the latter. The king’s method of suppressing insurrections. I desired leave of this prince to see the cur […]

]]> 0 4e172177fc07afae21ef50235cf85c73 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17493/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:14:49 -0500 The author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by pirates. The malice of a Dutchman. His arrival at an island. He is received into Laputa. I had not been at home above ten days, when Captain William […]

]]> 0 97402eaaea9e8264ef9dc551d4c78836 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17492/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:13:27 -0500 The author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by pirates. The malice of a Dutchman. His arrival at an island. He is received into Laputa. I had not been at home above ten days, when Captain William […]

]]> 0 21faea7134d692855721183864a65a13 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17491/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:11:59 -0500 0 d1b487ff4aec2862a96a9caee1058c1a Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17490/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:32:20 -0500 The king and queen make a progress to the frontiers. The author attends them. The manner in which he leaves the country very particularly related. He returns to England. I had always a strong impulse that I […]

]]> 0 3b93f4cda991ef7e94eb3d345ca30941 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17489/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:30:36 -0500 The author’s love of his country. He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, which is rejected. The king’s great ignorance in politics. The learning of that country very imperfect and confined. The law […]

]]> 0 21f5449e02f1de50e6750bd08584319e Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17488/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:28:55 -0500 Several contrivances of the author to please the king and queen. He shows his skill in music. The king inquires into the state of England, which the author relates to him. The king’s observations thereon. I u […]

]]> 0 8f9d20fa11f592d64799cb81fb804a9a Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17487/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:26:18 -0500 Several adventures that happened to the author. The execution of a criminal. The author shows his skill in navigation. I should have lived happy enough in that country, if my littleness had not exposed me to […]

]]> 0 c80b97a39f72894eeb99677c0ef65b66 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17486/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:10:26 -0500 The country described. A proposal for correcting modern maps. The king’s palace; and some account of the metropolis. The author’s way of travelling. The chief temple described. I now intend to give the rea […]

]]> 0 95a6447365f929d14d47c55ceb1c4250 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17485/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:07:51 -0500 The author sent for to court. The queen buys him of his master the farmer, and presents him to the king. He disputes with his majesty’s great scholars. An apartment at court provided for the author. He is in h […]

]]> 0 89c294f019d86773832d0c56fa512632 Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17484/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:05:50 -0500 A description of the farmer’s daughter. The author carried to a market-town, and then to the metropolis. The particulars of his journey. My mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of towardly p […]

]]> 0 a44d617c83a8cec36256e142d1d4c3de Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17483/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:03:26 -0500 A great storm described; the long boat sent to fetch water; the author goes with it to discover the country. He is left on shore, is seized by one of the natives, and carried to a farmer’s house. His reception, w […]

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