Search
Refine your search
Filter by keyword
Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]
… , while the tavern’s popular reputation for vice and profligacy was encouraged in works by writers such as Ned Ward 3 and by artists such as William Hogarth. Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress sets its third scene, known as the orgy … chaotic depraved behaviour and the sex trade. 2 . See for example The Spectator No. 49, Thursday April 26, 1711. 3 . Edward Ward, The London-Spy Compleat. In Eighteen Parts 3rd ed. (London, 1700), see for example the first part, November 1698, …
Celebration | Conviviality | Dining | French Revolution | Prostitution | Radicalism
Encyclopedia
The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… or a Young Sheriff at a County-Assizes . After we had mutually dispatch’d our Complements to each other, and I had Awkwardly return’d, in Country Scrapes, his All-a-mode Bows and Cringes, he would needs prevail with me to Dine with him … of their Practice hath render’d them like a Path-way , by common Treading , Nasty and Infertile, he ransacks their Wardrobe, strips them of their Plumes, and Discards ’em; who are forc’d to fly to some common Bawdy-House for Refuge, … take an Opportunity to do him such a piece of Service, if he gives him but the least Item of his slender Affections towards his Help-mate . And I have often heard him say, that Women are always the best Patients, especially if they Die …
Taverns | Dining
Anthology