Eighteenth-century London LifeJ. Murray, 1937 - 385 pages |
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Page 67
... lived over his shop , had often his little box at Clapham or Kensington , where he spent his Sundays . Thomas Holcroft tells us of the genteel family , who lived at Turnham Green , and who complained of the lack of rational society ...
... lived over his shop , had often his little box at Clapham or Kensington , where he spent his Sundays . Thomas Holcroft tells us of the genteel family , who lived at Turnham Green , and who complained of the lack of rational society ...
Page 75
... lived was also hung with crêpe , windows were shuttered and curtains drawn , and the family lived by candlelight at least till after the funeral and sometimes for very much longer . Gibbon writes of going to see his father some weeks ...
... lived was also hung with crêpe , windows were shuttered and curtains drawn , and the family lived by candlelight at least till after the funeral and sometimes for very much longer . Gibbon writes of going to see his father some weeks ...
Page 349
... lived , he told his sister , " at a full thousand a year expense " and he kept a chariot for a short time . He lived in London as did nearly all the great painters of the century , but his heart was in the Suffolk landscape . " There ...
... lived , he told his sister , " at a full thousand a year expense " and he kept a chariot for a short time . He lived in London as did nearly all the great painters of the century , but his heart was in the Suffolk landscape . " There ...
Contents
LONDONS ASPECTS AND CHARACTERISTICS | 8 |
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION | 26 |
THE LIFE OF THE UPPER CLASSES | 40 |
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