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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… are spacious, regular, and airy; and the houses generally convenient. The bridge at Blackfriars is a noble monument of taste and public-spirit.—I wonder how they stumbled upon a work of such magnificence and utility. But, notwithstanding … and swilling port, and punch, and cyder, I can’t help compassionating their temerity; white I despise their want of taste and decorum; but, when they course along those damp and gloomy walks, or crowd together upon the wet gravel, …
Fiction | Towns | Correspondence
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Jonathan Wild (1743) [ Practices ]
… without his protection. And surely there is none in the whole gang who hath less reason to complain than you; you have tasted of my favours: witness that piece of ribbon you wear in your hat, with which I dubbed you captain. Therefore pray, …
Fiction | Taverns | Law
Anthology
Hunting scene in Joseph Andrews (1742) [ Practices ]
… had not the motion of his body had more effect on him than seemed to be wrought by the noise, they must certainly have tasted his flesh, which delicious flavour might have been fatal to him; but being roused by these tuggings, he instantly …
Hunting | Fiction
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Spas [ Health ]
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… to fight, to plead, To smoke, to drink—do anything but read— The club—with stagg’ring steps, yet light of heart, Their taste for learning shown, and punch—depart. 3 2 . See Mihaela Irimia, ‘”…these foolish, yet dangerous Books”: Fashionable …
Clubs | Family | Fiction | Streets
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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