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The Spectator, No. 454 (11 August 1712) [ Places / Transport ]
… Richmond , and the Scene still filling with Children of a new Hour. This Satisfaction encreased as I moved towards the City; and gay Signs, well disposed Streets, magnificent publick Structures, and wealthy Shops, adorned with contented Faces, made the Joy still rising till we came into the Centre of the City, and Centre of the World of Trade, the Exchange of London . As other men in the Crowds about me were pleased with … as much as is seemingly in them, and given from them every Day they live. But before Five in the Afternoon I left the City, came to my common Scene of Covent-Garden , and passed the Evening at Will's in attending the Discourses of …
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Street sociability [ Cities ]
… of social encounters in the street did not escape eighteenth-century commentators. From Marcellus Laroon's Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life 1678), to Defoe ’s Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack (1721) a new fascination with … and Joseph Addison, Spectator, 1711-1714, ed. D.F. Bond, 5 vols (Oxford, 1965); Jonathan Swift, ‘A Description of a City Shower’ (1711), ed. Roger Lonsdale, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse (Oxford: OUP, 1984), p. 16-17. 5 … not involve horses and a demand to ‘stand and deliver’ . Instead they were what would now be thought of as muggings on city streets – in which intra-class conflict was played out. 12 The rewards and awful punishments meted out reflect …
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… 2004), pp. 147-150. At the same time, a less scientific public gathered in the spouting clubs or assemblies of the City of London where tradesmen, merchants and apprentices formed amateur societies desirous of learning to read well for … Street) and more globally to better understand their individual relation to the larger collective organisation of the city or country. If the official mapping of Britain was only organized from 1791 in an Ordnance Survey, John Ogilby’s … people. In this sense, apart from the simple kinetic sensation of movement, the very activity of crossing a town or a city meant an interaction with a textual environment which pointed to the omnipresence of reading. The sociable …
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