Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… satirical representations of diverse forms of meeting and mixing on the streets, at fairs, and in parks, taverns and coffeehouses. He wrote to entertain, and satirical exaggeration was germane to the endeavour, but his humour nevertheless … five years later he relocated to Moorfields, where he ran a tavern until 1728 when he moved again, this time to open a coffeehouse on an alley running between Holborn and the entrance to Gray’s Inn. It was here that he died in June 1731. … worshippers’ appeared as though the ‘world was turned topsy-turvy’. 5 In another issue, the Spy retires to a nearby coffeehouse bristling with fops chewing over matters political. These ‘beau-politicians’ were ‘a very gaudy crowd of …
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