Transcribed from the 1858 William Tweedie edition by DavidPrice,
by
J. EWING RITCHIE,
author of the “london pulpit,” etc.
“In cities vice is hidden with most ease.
Or seen with least reproach.
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I do confess them nurseries of the arts.
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Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaim’d
The fairest capital of all the world,
By riot and incontinence the worst.”Cowper.
Second Edition, revised.
LONDON:
WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.
mdccclviii.
p. iijohn childs and son, printers.
| page |
introduction | |
seeing a man hanged | |
catherine-street | |
the bal masque | |
up the haymarket | |
the canterbury hall | |
ratcliffe-highway | |
judge and jury clubs | |
the cave of harmony | |
discussion clubs | |
the cyder cellars | |
leicester-square | |
dr johnson’s tavern |