Phaeton [ Transport ]
… Mail-Coach fascinated de Quincey with their potential for sudden death. 5 . Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, ed. James Kinsley and Fiona J. Stafford (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 122 6 . Thomas de Quincey, The … dressed in their best clothes, riding in their ornate carriages, and meeting one another out in their carriages and speaking to passers-by. At the opening of parliament, the formal procession of ambassadors, and royal birthdays, huge crowds … elite men’s rejection, in the later eighteenth century, of magnificent dress for plainer, simpler clothes. 8 Onslow, lacking the full equipage of coachmen and grooms, blurs the distinction between master and servant, elite and non-elite. …
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