London Versus Paris in a Travel Letter from Jack Roast Beer
The writer compares English life with Paris during a grand tour era, praising London’s streets and night illumination while critiquing Parisian streets and manners. He notes the police lamping of streets, the contrast of cleanliness and vulgarity, and reflects on British superiority in liberty, comfort, and national character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorset-street
Salisbury-court
France
Paris
Bresing
England
Italy
Great Britain
Tate Town
Germany
Gld.Englend
Fleet-street
St. Honoré
Ville of
University Quarter
City
Fauxbourg St. Germain
London
Patis
Luna
Monsieur de Sartine
Frostbound Fragments From a Bygone Ledger of Oddities
A damaged OCR fragment recounts frost trapped items and phrases about clergy, lawyers, a courtier, a citizen, a soldier, and a lady of fashion. It notes frozen text dissolving, coins thawing, and a phial containing a bulky article evaporating. The piece parodies period abstractions amid freezing and thawing imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hooker
Westminster-hall
Roya Exchange
Belton
England
Doéters Common
The Black Amoor Wash'd White at Drury Lane
A lively review of the new Comic Opera at Drury Lane titled The Black Amoor Wash'd White. Frederic by Vernon disguises as a black servant to reach Julia, with Grenvile and Jerry plotting to secure the couple’s union. Scene by scene the plot, mistaken identities, jealous fathers, and comic resolutions unfold amid applause and thunderous reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drury Lane Theatre
Frederic
Mr. Vernon
Oliver Oddfish
Parsons
Grenvill
Mr. Davies
Robert
Burton
Jerry
Bradshaw
Oliver Oddfith
Julia
Mr. Grenvile
Sir Oliver
Lady Oddfithh
Grenvile
Oddfish
Lady Oddfith
Qlivers
Amoroso
Oliver
Tulia
Vernon
Bengal
Little Ferry
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Earl of Chesterfield
Thomas. Hunter
Weaverham
Chehire
T. Cadell
Strand
J. A
Viscount
Bolingbroke
Falce
M.D
S. Crowder
B. Law
C. Dilly
G. Robinson
R., Baldwin
T. Evans
Day
Day, and Sunk In Plyfrauth
Sound
Royal Society
Samuel Wale
Canada
N .Y
General Magazine
Shakespeare
Johnson, Drayton
Randolph
Sailey
G. Allen
John Hancock
American Congress
Monthly Museum
the Antiquarian Society
Society For the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and
America
N. B
Wallis and Stonehouse
Yorick’s Head
Ludgate-street
Kennedy
W. Bayley
Cockpar
A. Rothwell
Civet4Cat
New Bond-street
F. Newbery
Bookfever
Ludgate- Firget
St. Paw’s Church-yard
J. Price
Leadenhall-street
F. Grosvenor
Chancerv-lane
Holborn
William Radley
Cherift
Gray’s-Inn-Gate
Halbon
Hlu
Cupid
Maresu
Yelverton Earl
Sussex
Universal Magazine of Knowledge and
Ees
Universal Magazine
Hintof
King’s Arms
Phternofter-row
Warwick- Lanes
W. Newton
Bookfeller
Manchester
Wand
Great-Britain
Treland
Anh &S
Napier
J Hullmandall
W. Napier
Lancaster
Court
Publiqpet
THE
Town and Country Magazine
Pans U AR
Vanc Taylor
Clara
Boston
Mife Hany
Europe
Hawkesworthis Voyages
A. Hamilton
St. John's Gate
Amelia
Hemet
W. Bainey
Cockpur-street
Haymarket
Londons
M. Purdie
Bath
I.ice
Tolu
T. Greenough
Chymitt and Apothecary
Ludgate-hill
Price
Bex
Cockspur Street
A. Rogh
M. Purdig
King's Beach
Agne
T. Greenaugh
Ludgatshis
Balfam
Tou
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