Letters from England, Band 1Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808 |
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Seite 80 - A nobleman would not be found by any accident to live in that part which is properly called the City, unless he should be confined for treason or sedition in Newgate or the Tower. This is the Eastern side; and I observe, whenever a person says that he lives at the West End of the Town, there is some degree of consequence connected with the situation: For instance, my tailor lives at the West End of the Town, and consequently he is supposed to make my coat in a better style of fashion: and this opinion...
Seite xix - ... has the privilege of returning two members to parliament, who purchase the votes of their constituents, and the place has no other trade — it has indeed a very rotten appearance. Even the poorest houses in this country are glazed : this, however, proves rather the inclemency of the climate than the wealth of the people. Our second stage was to a single house, called the Indian Queens, which is rather a post-house than an inn. These places are not distinguished by a bush, though that was once...
Seite 81 - End of the town is the last step of the successful trader, when he throws off his exuvicE, and emerges from his chrysalis state into the butterfly world of high life. Here are the Hesperides, whither the commercial adventurers repair, not to gather but to enjoy their golden fruits. Yet this metropolis of fashion, this capital of the capital itself, has the most monotonous appearance imaginable. The streets are perfectly parallel and uniformly extended brick walls, about forty feet high, with equally...
Seite 203 - ... laid against a king's life. He regularly joined the royal hounds, put himself foremost, and took the most desperate leaps, in the hope that William might break his neck in following him. One day, however, he accomplished one so imminently hazardous, that the king when he came to the spot shook his head and drew back. Shooting is pursued with the same zeal. Many a man, who, if a walk of...
Seite 87 - The most singular figures in the streets of this metropolis are the men who are employed in carrying the earth-coal, which they remove from the barge to the waggon, and again from the waggon to the house, upon their backs. The back of the coat, therefore, is as well quilted as the cotton breastplate of our soldiers in America in old times; and to protect it still more, the broad flap of the hat lies flat upon the shoulders.
Seite xii - I was shown a garden, unique in its kind, which has been made in the old castle ditch. The banks rise steeply on each side; one of the finest poplars in the country grows in the bottom, and scarcely overtops the ruined wall. Jackson, one of the most accomplished men of his age, directed these improvements; and never was accident more happily improved. He was chiefly celebrated as a musician; but as a man of letters, his reputation is considerable; and he was also a painter: few men, if any, have...
Seite 208 - We talk of the liberty of the English, and they talk of their own -liberty ; but there is no liberty in England for the poor. They are no longer sold with the soil, it is true ; but they cannot quit the soil, if there be any probability or suspicion that age or infirmity may disable them. If in such a case they...
Seite xvi - Early in the morning our chaise was at the door, a four-wheeled carriage which conveniently carries three persons. It has glass in front and at the sides, instead of being closed with curtains, so that you at once see the country and are sheltered from the weather. Two horses drew us at the rate of a league and a half in the hour; such is the rapidity with which the English travel. Half Penryn.
Seite 99 - The blankets are or- the natural colour of the wool, quite plain ; the sheets plain also. I have never seen them flounced nor laced, nor ever seen a striped or coloured blanket. The counterpane is of all English manufactures the least tasteful ; it is of white cotton, ornamented with cotton knots, in shapes as graceless as the cut box in a garden. My window curtains are of the same pattern as the bed ; a mahogany press holds my clothes, an oval looking-glass swung lengthways stands on the dressing-table.
Seite 65 - The body, according to custom, wa» suspended an hour : during this time the Irish basket-women who sold fruit under the gallows were drinking his damnation in a mixture of gin and brimstone ! The halter in which he suffered was cut into the smallest pieces possible, which were sold to the mob at a shilling each.