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The Spectator, No. 454 (11 August 1712) [ Places / Transport ]
… of the World, and be of no Character or Significancy in it. To be ever unconcerned, and ever looking on new Objects with an endless Curiosity, is a Delight known only to those who are turned for Speculation: Nay, they who enjoy it, must value Things only as they are the Objects of Speculation, without drawing any worldly Advantage to themselves from them, but just as they are what contribute to their Amusement, … but a certain busie Inclination one sometimes has, I rose at Four in the Morning, and took Boat for London , with a Resolution to rove by Boat and Coach for the next Four and twenty Hours, till the many different Objects I must …
Streets
Anthology
A Description of a City Shower (1711) [ Places ]
… o’er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Returning home at night you find the sink Strike your offended sense with double stink. If you be wise, then go not far to dine, You spend in coach-hire more than save in wine. A coming … Sauntering in coffee-house is Dulman seen; He damns the climate, and complains of spleen. Meanwhile the South, rising with dabbled wings, A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings; That swilled more liquor than it could contain, And like a … on her mop. Nor yet the dust had shunned th’ unequal strife, But aided by the wind, fought still for life; And wafted with its foe by violent gust, ‘Twas doubtful which was rain, and which was dust. Ah! Where must needy poet seek for aid, …
Streets
Anthology
Street sociability [ Cities ]
… of social spaces. In eighteenth-century Britain, it was on the street that gentlemen and gentlewomen rubbed shoulders with hawkers, paupers and a varied cast of social inferiors. The streets demanded new rules of behaviour, new ‘rules of … of sociability, eighteenth-century commentators were just as fascinated by the sociability of the street, and especially with the streets of London. These alfresco demotic spaces witnessed innumerable cross-class and cross-gender encounters that sit awkwardly at the intersection of several …
Crime | Streets | Rules | Women
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… of the long eighteenth century contributed to the spread of the existing textual conventions and their transformation, with letters (a reading-writing form of communication) playing a vital role in familiarizing the growing audience with such new printed media like novels, biographies or newspapers and periodicals. See Rachel Scarborough King in … and public spaces, reading should not be viewed as an activity connected solely to literature or associated simply with texts intended to stir up the imagination (e.g. fiction or poetry). 2 In fact, people read various texts – from …
Clubs | Family | Fiction | Streets
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