… Silver..." … Drinking … Satire … Exoticism … Religion … F.B. [Brokesby, Francis] , Les tours d'une tabatiere: or, the travels and misfortunes of the enchanted snuff-box: humbly inscrib'd to Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; London: printed for J. …
… in the 1780s and 1790s in several essays of ‘observations’. The satirical accounts that were afterwards made of his travels and cartooned by Rowlandson show the clergyman, Dr Syntax, at several social gatherings, putting in at inns, … the first page of his 1770 Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales (first printed in 1782): We travel for various purposes —to explore the culture of soils — to view the curiosities of art — to survey the beauties of …
… prompting Surrey’s Grand Jury to remind the county in 1736 that public houses were intended for ‘the receipt […] of Travellers […] [rather than] the Entertainment & harbouring of […] Idle People to spend & consume their Money & their … attractions in their own right. On her journeys through England, Celia Fiennes – doubly notable as an early leisure traveller and a female voice – liked to frequent local sights like sites of worship. At Derby in 1698, for example, she … edition. Celia Fiennes, ‘1698 Tour: Staffordshire’, A vision of Britain, 2009-2017. https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers/Fiennes/21 A Swiss village church near Bern established itself as an unlikely tourist destination. An …
… Press, 1994), p. 79, 85. 13 . Michel de Montaigne, ‘Of Three Kinds of Association’ in The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters, transl. Donald M. Frame (New York: Everyman, 2003), p. 750. The types of solitary individuals …
… and to the belief that the sword may help him get into the world—in spite of the fact that Smollett attacks duels in his Travels , and in particular ‘the folly and the mischief which are countenanced by the modern practice of duelling’ …