Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London during the eighteenth century; with a review of the state of society in 1807. To which is added, a sketch of the domestic architecture, and of the various improvements in the metropolis, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810 - 443 pages |
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Page 368 - ... were invented. Is your climate so hot, that as you walk, you need umbrellas of tiles to intercept the sun ? Or, are your shambles so empty, that you are afraid to take in fresh air, lest it should sharpen your stomachs ? Oh, the goodly...
Page 135 - Serjeant, (lately come from the frontiers of Portugal), Master of the Noble Science of Defence, hearing in most places where I have been of the great fame of Timothy Buck of London, Master of the said Science, do invite him to meet me, and exercise at the several weapons following, viz. Back-Sword, Single Falchion, Sword and Dagger, Case of Falchions, Sword and Buckler, Quarter-staff.
Page 167 - Blade run away from its Hilt. The Weapons were frighted, but as for the Men, In Truth they ne'er minded, but at it again.
Page 243 - That if any Persons unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled together, to the disturbance of the Public Peace, shall unlawfully, and with force demolish or pull down...
Page 369 - The commodity and trade of your river belongs to yourselves ; but give a stranger leave to share in the pleasure of it, which will hardly be in the prospect or freedom of air ; unless prospect, consisting of variety, be made up with here a palace, there a wood-yard, here a garden, there a brewhouse ; here dwells a lord, there a dyer, and between both duomo comune.
Page 341 - Some wear their Hats (with the corner that should come over their foreheads in a direct line) pointed into the air ; those are the Gawkies. " Others do not above half cover their heads, which is indeed owing to the shallowness of their crowns...
Page 274 - ... Conway) ; a double man, half miller, half chimneysweeper (Sir R. Phillips) ; a Political Bedlamite, run mad for Wilkes and Liberty and No. 45 ; a figure of Adam in flesh-coloured silk, with an apron of fig-leaves ; a Druid (Sir WW Wynne) ; a figure of Somebody ; a figure of Nobody ; a running Footman, very richly dressed, with a cap set with diamonds, and the words "Tuesday Night's Club...
Page 130 - ... no person of what quality soever presume to go behind the scenes, or come upon the stage...
Page 376 - ... thrown quite open, or kept quite shut, without small crannies to let in the wind ; for as it is useful sometimes to admit a free air, so it is sometimes to exclude it.
Page 301 - To that mark, if Comedy directs not her aim, her arrows are shot in the air ; for by what touches no man, no man will be amended.