The Amusements of Old London: Being a Survey of the Sports and Pastimes, Tea Gardens and Parks, Playhouses and Other Diversions of the People of London from the 17th to the Beginning of the 19th Century, Volumen2 J. C. Nimmo, 1901 |
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Términos y frases comunes
admirable Almack's amphitheatre amusement Astley attractions Bartholomew Fair battle beauty blow Boodle's booth boxing Broughton Captain Charles Charles Fox coach coffee coffee-house Court Covent Garden crowd delighted Dilettante Society diversion dress duck Duke early England entertainment establishment famous fancy fashion favourite Figg Figg's fight gave gentlemen George Selwyn George the Second George the Third Gregson groves guineas half Horace Walpole horse humours Hyde Park interest Jack James's Street John Broughton king Lady Lambeth later London al fresco Lord Majesty Marlborough Club meeting modern numbers organisation patrons Pepys Pierce Egan play pleasant pleasure present Prince of Wales prize-fight prize-ring promenade pugilism pugilist Queen records ring river round Royal Highness says Smithfield social society Southwark sport Spring Garden taste Tavern Thames theatre tion to-day took town Tyburn Tyers Vauxhall vogue walks Whig White's and Brooks's White's Club whole young youth
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Página 227 - Till one wide conflagration swallows all. 240 Thence a new world, to nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heaven its own : Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise, Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies ; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo ! one vast egg produces human race. Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought : 'What power,' he cries, 'what power these wonders wrought?
Página 122 - As the King's most royal Majesty is desirous to have the games of hare, partridge, pheasant, and heron preserved, in and about the honour of his palace of Westminster, for his own disport and pastime, no person, on the pain of imprisonment of their bodies, and further punishment at his Majesty's will and pleasure, is to presume to hunt or hawk, from the palace of Westminster to St.
Página 187 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up...
Página 173 - I, who am at the coffee-house at six in the morning, know that my friend Beaver, the haberdasher, has a levee of more undissembled friends and admirers, than most of the courtiers or generals of Great Britain. Every man about him has, perhaps, a newspaper in his hand; but none can pretend to guess what step will be taken in any one court of Europe, till Mr. Beaver has thrown down his pipe, and declares what measures the allies must enter into upon this new posture of affairs.
Página 50 - Sun rising in a most glorious manner: moreover, a multitude of Angels will be seen in a double rank, which presents a double prospect, one for the sun, the other for a palace, where will be seen six Angels ringing of bells. — Likewise Machines descend from above, double and treble, with Dives rising out of Hell, and Lazarus seen in Abraham's bosom, besides several figures dancing jiggs, sarabands, and country dances, to the admiration of the spectators; with the merry conceits of squire Punch and...
Página 187 - In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Página 167 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 148 - Short; rather plump than emaciated, notwithstanding his complaints: about five foot five inches: fair wig; lightish cloth coat, all black besides: one hand generally in his bosom, the other a cane in it, which he leans upon under the skirts of his coat usually, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a support, when attacked by sudden tremors or startings, and dizziness...
Página 142 - Stewart in this dress, with her hat cocked and a red plume, with her sweet eye, little Roman nose, and excellent taille, is now the greatest beauty I ever saw, I think, in my life...
Página 8 - Spring-Garden, and there eat and walked ; and observe how rude some of the young gallants of the town are become, to go into people's arbours where there are not men, and almost force the women ; which troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age : and so we away by water, with much pleasure home.