Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… to Chelsea and Kensington; and if this infatuation continues for half a century, I suppose the whole county of Middlesex will be covered with brick. It must be allowed, indeed, for the credit of the present age, that London and … these gay scenes, a few lamps glimmer like so many farthing candles. When I see a number of well dressed people, of both sexes, sitting on the covered benches, exposed to the eyes of the mob; and, which is worse, to the cold, raw, night-air, …
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