England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social History of the Times, Svazek 1J. Grant, 1891 |
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... were seldom seen , and are now possessed in greater or smaller measure by nearly everybody ; the many things not then in vogue , but which have since passed into daily use , to our " exceeding refreshment , " INTRODUCTORY . 5.
... were seldom seen , and are now possessed in greater or smaller measure by nearly everybody ; the many things not then in vogue , but which have since passed into daily use , to our " exceeding refreshment , " INTRODUCTORY . 5.
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... seen carrying that most indispensable guard from chilly showers to present - day folk - to wit , an umbrella - the gentlemen got into coaches and chairs , or sought the kindly shelter of the coffee- houses and taverns ; the ladies ...
... seen carrying that most indispensable guard from chilly showers to present - day folk - to wit , an umbrella - the gentlemen got into coaches and chairs , or sought the kindly shelter of the coffee- houses and taverns ; the ladies ...
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... seen a beau in some ill - fated hour , When o'er the stones choak'd kennels swell the show'r , Twiss's Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon , i . p . 49 . 2 Trivia , ii . L L In gilded chariot loll ; he with disdain Views spatter'd.
... seen a beau in some ill - fated hour , When o'er the stones choak'd kennels swell the show'r , Twiss's Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon , i . p . 49 . 2 Trivia , ii . L L In gilded chariot loll ; he with disdain Views spatter'd.
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... seen in Hogarth's series of paintings depicting the Rake's Progress , and in Pyne's ' Book of Costume . ' A distinguishing characteristic of these lamp- lighters was that of invariably spilling the oil upon the heads of those who passed ...
... seen in Hogarth's series of paintings depicting the Rake's Progress , and in Pyne's ' Book of Costume . ' A distinguishing characteristic of these lamp- lighters was that of invariably spilling the oil upon the heads of those who passed ...
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... seen in a few of the older London squares . From its western extremity at Hyde Park Corner to its eastern extremity at Whitechapel , London was guarded by neither police , patrol , nor regular troops . The sole guardians or rather non ...
... seen in a few of the older London squares . From its western extremity at Hyde Park Corner to its eastern extremity at Whitechapel , London was guarded by neither police , patrol , nor regular troops . The sole guardians or rather non ...
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Strana 90 - ... high, that at present want some inches of five: how they came to be thus curtailed I cannot learn ; whether the whole sex be at present under any penance which we know nothing of, or whether they have cast their head-dresses in order to surprise us with something in that kind which shall be entirely new ; or whether some of the tallest of the sex, being too cunning for the rest, have contrived this ^method to make themselves appear...
Strana 90 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men.* The women were of such an enormous stature, that "we appeared as grasshoppers before them...
Strana 180 - Thames' full urn rolls down his plenteous waves ; From every penthouse streams the fleeting snow, And with dissolving frost the pavements flow. Experienc'd men, inur'd to city ways, «* Need not the calendar to count their days. When through the Town, with slow and solemn air, Led by the nostril, walks the muzzled bear, Behind him moves majestically dull, The pride of Hockley-hole, the surly bull; «>• Learn hence the periods of the week to name : Mondays and Thursdays are the days of game.
Strana 28 - Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Strana 277 - Last Friday was Valentine's Day, and the night before, I got five bay-leaves, and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle ; and then, if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out.
Strana 182 - Jones' immortal hands, Columns with plain magnificence appear, And graceful porches lead along the square: Here oft my course I bend, when lo! from far, I spy the furies of the football war: The 'prentice quits his shop to join the crew, Increasing crowds the flying game pursue.
Strana 349 - Christianity, have this fortnight been pondering methods to make more effectual that horrid traffic of selling negroes. It has appeared to us that six-and-forty thousand of these wretches are sold every year to our plantations alone !—it chills one's blood.
Strana 296 - I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe if I were to stay a little, I might send its life, dedicated to my lord Dartmouth, by the ordinary of Newgate, its two great patrons. A drunken parish clerk set it on foot out of revenge, the methodists have adopted it, and the whole town of London think of nothing else. Elizabeth Canning and the Rabbit-woman were modest impostors in comparison of this, which goes on without saving the least appearances. The archbishop, who would not suffer the...
Strana 204 - One evening at the [Ivy Lane] Club, Johnson proposed to us the celebrating the birth of Mrs. Lenox's first literary child, as he called her book, by a whole night spent in festivity. Upon his mentioning it to me, I told him I had never sat up a whole night in my life ; but he continuing to...
Strana 97 - I must describe first : — her petticoat was black velvet embroidered with chenille, the pattern a large stone vase filled with ramping flowers that spread almost over a breadth of the petticoat from the bottom to the top ; between each vase of flowers was a pattern of gold shells, and foliage embossed and most heavily rich...