A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833Smith, John Thomas
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A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833
Smith, John Thomas
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Dog, a London beggar’s, 88, 89.
Dog-doctor, famous London, 90.
Doggett’s Coat and Badge, 225-227.
Dogs, teeth of dead, 91.
Door-knockers in Fetter Lane, 124-125.
Draughts player, a famous, 31.
Drownings in Portman Square, 49.
Drury Lane Theatre, mismanagement of, 36.
Dublin, Mrs. Pope and her husband at, 164-166.
Du Val’s Lane, 193.
Dyot Street, 87.
Edmonton, exclusiveness of, 134.
---- rambles near, 134.
---- George Morland at, 157.
Elephant at Exeter Change, 107.
Elms near Fitzroy Square, 47.
Elocution, Dr. Trusler’s short cut to, 55.
Engraving, Smith’s views on, 307.
Epitaph on Sturges, a draughts-player, 31.
Epitaph, a remarkable Shoreditch, 89.
Epping butter, 56, 181.
Etchings by Baillie, 115.
Eternity, Fuseli’s image of, 205.
Execution of Governor Wall, 179-180.
Exeter Change elephant, 106-108.
Eye, power of the human, 146-147.
Fall of lace, worn by ladies, 75.
Fans, carried out of doors, 75.
Fantoccino, 67.
Farthing Pie House, 24, 47.
Feathers Tavern in Leicester Fields, 104.
Feathers Tavern at Waterloo Bridge, 53.
Fetter Lane, Dolphin door knocker in, 125.
Field of the Forty Footsteps, 36, 37.
Finch’s Grotto, 7.
Fitzroy Square, 47.
Forgery by W. Wynn Ryland, 198.
“French Gardens,” 50.
Funeral, Garrick’s extravagant, 81.
---- Henderson’s skit on, 81.
Funny, a Thames pleasure boat, 293.
Garlands, carried by milkmaids, 20.
Garrat elections, 127.
Garrick’s villa at Hampton, 283-290.
George IV., his rocker cradle, 9.
Gerrard Street, Edmund Burke in, 128.
Go-carts, 8.
Goloshes, 75, 79.
Goodge Street, 32.
Goose, at Greenwich, 6.
Gooseberry Fair, 35.
Grangerised “Pennant,” 86.
Great Queen Street, No. 55-56, 117.
Green Man Tavern, 47.
Greenwich Hospital, pictures at, 290-291.
Gresse’s Gardens, 32.
Grosvenor Square, Dr. Johnson shakes a thief in, 78.
Grotto Garden, 82.
Guilford Street, gap in, 76.
Halfpenny Hatch, 270.
Hanway Street, 31.
Harley Fields, 24.
Hartshorn Lane, 299.
Hat called “Egham, Staines, and Windsor,” 236.
---- “Cumberland Cock,” 236.
Hermes Hill, 241.
Highgate, view of, from Bloomsbury, 76.
High Street, a typical, 39.
Honey Lane Market, 188.
Hooligan, an eighteenth-century, 29.
Horse, Stubbs, R.A., carries a dead, 95.
Horses at Garrick’s funeral, 81.
Hot Cross Buns, 148-149.
Hungerford Stairs, 297.
Ireland, the Union with, 169.
Islington, rural delights of, 17.
---- seen from Bloomsbury, 76.
Jack-in-the-green, 20.
“Jenny’s Whim,” 259.
Jew’s Harp House, 22-23.
“Jolly Undertakers, The,” 213.
Kendall’s Farm at Regent’s Park, 24.
Kentish Town, dairy near, 26.
---- Charles Mathews at, 85.
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