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The Play-bills, 1830 [ Practices ]
… merry, on every Tatler which these poor people sell, they will get a half-penny. When we consider the stress which great statesmen lay upon pence and pots of beer, in their financial measures, we hope this will not have “ a mean sound,” … affect to despise nothing that represents the food and raiment of mothers and children; though we often wonder how great statesmen can lay so much stress upon the pence they dole out, and so little upon the thousands they receive. —But we …
Theatre | Advertisement
Anthology
Drury Lane (1740) [ People / Places ]
… Possession of the Drury-Lane Theatre, those Actors whom the Patentee ever since the Order of Silence had retain'd in a State of Inaction, all to a Man came over to the Service of Collier . Of these Booth was then the chief. The Merit of the … Possession of the Drury-Lane Theatre, those Actors whom the Patentee ever since the Order of Silence had retain'd in a State of Inaction, all to a Man came over to the Service of Collier ." … Theatre … Dress … Beauty … Colley Cibber, An …
Theatre | Dress | Beauty
Anthology
Boxiana (1821) [ Practices ]
… A boxer requires a nob as well as a statesman does a HEAD, coolness and calculation being essential to second his efforts; and it is also highly necessary …
Sports
Anthology
Public Advertiser (22 April 1763) [ Practices ]
… on account of it, sufficiently to enabie them to call out, Mr. Such-an-one, your Health, yet I am frequently in the same State of Eclipse at Sot's Hole at the Goofe and Gridiron in St. Paul's Church-yard. Tobacco, by the Bye, is an excellent … and Farthingworths at the Chandler's Shop. To illustrate this still further by another Instance - If his Lordship's Estate should be a little out at Elbows, if he has lent all his Money at an Election, or if he cannot get a Place, (which …
Tea | Conviviality | Commodities
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Duelling (1753) [ Practices ]
… never after was wholly free. And these, and the dangerous way he conti|nued in for some time, brought her into an ill state of health; broke, in short, her constitution; so that, in less than a twelvemonth, my Father, to his inexpres|sible …
Fiction
Anthology
The London-Spy (1699) [ Practices ]
… of this Magnificent Edifice: I told him, i conceiv’d it to be my Lord Mayor’s Palace , for I could not imagine so stately a Structure could be design’d for any Quality inferior; he smill’d at my Innocent Conjecture, and inform’d me …
Anthology
Pickwick Papers (1836-37) [ Places ]
… would look in vain for any of these ancient hostelries, among the Golden Crosses and Bull and Mouths, which rear their stately fronts in the improved streets of London. If he would light upon any of these old places, he must direct his …
Inn
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Pagination
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