Old times : $b A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth centuryAshton, John
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Old times : $b A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth century
Ashton, John
Great Britain -- Social life and customs
MRS. SIDDONS AS "ANDROMACHE"--MRS. JORDAN AS "VIOLA" 190
MRS. BILLINGTON AS "ROSETTA"--MRS. MARTYR AS
"EUPHROSYNE" 190
MISS BRUNTON AS "JULIET "--MISS FIELD AS "ARIEL" 190
AT THE OPERA--AT CHURCH 204
THE CELEBRATED MADEMOISELLE G--M--RD 211
BALLET AT THE KING'S THEATRE-PANTHEON, 1791 211
THE OPERATICAL FINALE TO THE BALLET OF "ALONZO
E CARO" 212
MDLLE PARISOT 213
DURHAM MUSTARD TOO POWERFUL FOR ITALIAN CAPERS, 1798 213
ECCLESIASTICAL SCRUTINY, OR, THE DURHAM INQUEST
ON DUTY, 1798 214
MADAME CORNELYS 217
THE FEMALE COTERIE 221
A COUNTRY CONCERT, OR AN EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT
IN SUSSEX 225
SAVOYARDS OF FASHION, 1799 226
SEEN HOME BY THE WATCH, 1792 243
THE MONSTER CUTTING A LADY, 1790 248
RENWICK WILLIAMS, 1790 256
PROTECTION FROM THE MONSTER 258
BOXING MADE EASY, OR HUMPHREYS GIVING A LESSON, 1788 274
JEFFREY DUNSTAN--ORDINARY COSTUME 292
SIR JEFFREY DUNSTAN--COURT DRESS 293
TREATMENT OF LUNATICS 298
_Memorandum.--For binder's purposes some of the illustrations will not
be found on the pages named, but a few pages further on._
OLD TIMES.
Although this book does not pretend to be a history of the times of
which it treats, still, it will materially help the reader, if, at the
outset, some of the principal events which occurred during the period
are succinctly narrated.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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