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Walking the Streets of London (1716) [ Concepts / Places ]
… thy lasting youth defends." … Streets … Dress … Text taken from John Gay, Trivia: Or the Art of Walking the Streets . London: printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates in Fleetstreet, 1716, book 1, lines 1-82. Full text from HATHI TRUST. … Walking the Streets of London (1716) …
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A Description of a City Shower (1711) [ Places ]
… to save their wigs. … Streets … Jonathan Swift, "A Description of a City Shower", Miscellanies in prose and verse. London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationers Hall, 1711, p. 406-410. Full volume at ECCO. … A Description of a …
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The Spectator, No. 454 (11 August 1712) [ Places / Transport ]
… of Dissatisfaction, 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 … is for a Visit of Conversation at their own Houses. The Hours of the Day and Night are taken up in the Cities of London and Westminster by People as different from each other as those who are born in different Centuries. Men of Six … Day. When we first put off from Shore, we soon fell in with a Fleet of Gardeners bound for the several Market-Ports of London ; and it was the most pleasing Scene imaginable to see the Chearfulness with which those industrious People ply'd …
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… Hon. Mrs. Boscawen to Mrs. Delany, in The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 6 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1861-1862), vol. 3, p. 296. 6 . The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, ed. G. H. Bell (London: Macmillan, 1930), pp. 58, 61, 66. 7 . Abigail Williams, The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home (New Heaven and London: Yale University Press, 2017), p. 44. Although the ‘images of families reading together in groves and grassy banks …
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