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  • Table Traits, with Something on Them

    The History of What We Eat

    by Dr. John Doran ...
    The history of eating - the Roman banquet, the medieval feast, coffee, tea, tobacco and the men who first tried them - by a physician's son who wrote gossip better than anyone of his day. Doran edited Notes and Queries and knew every anecdote worth knowing. ... Read more

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  • In and About Drury Lane and Other Papers Reprinted from the Pages of the Temple Bar Magazine (Complete)

    by Dr. John Doran ...
    In the afternoon of ‘Boxing-day,’ 1865, I had to pass through Drury Lane, and some of the worst of the ‘slums’ which find vent therein. There was a general movement in the place, and the effect was not savoury. There was a going to-and-fro of groups of people, and there was nothing picturesque in them; assemblings of children, but alas! nothing lovable in them. It was a universal holiday, yet its ... Read more

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  • London in the Jacobite Times (Complete)

    by Dr. John Doran ...
    On the last morning of Queen Anne’s life, a man, deep in thought, was slowly crossing Smithfield. The eyes of a clergyman passing in a carriage were bent upon him. The carriage stopped, the wayfarer looked up, and the two men knew each other. The one on foot was the dissenting preacher, whom Queen Anne used to call ‘bold Bradbury.’ The other was Bishop Burnet. ‘On what were you so deeply thinking? ... Read more

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  • A Lady of the Last Century

    by Dr. John Doran ...
    Elizabeth Robinson, who became so well known, subsequently, as Mrs. Montagu, belongs altogether to the eighteenth century. She was born at York, in October, 1720. She died in the last year of that century, 1800. Miss Robinson was of a family, the founder of which, William Robinson, a London merchant, but a descendant of a line of Scottish barons, bought, in 1610, the estate of Rokeby, in Yorkshire ... Read more

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  • Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover (Complete)

    by Dr. John Doran ...
    When George I. ascended the throne of England, the heralds provided him with an ancestry. They pretended that his Majesty, who had few god-like virtues of his own, was descended from that deified hero Woden, whose virtues, according to the bards, were all of a god-like quality. The two had little in common, save lack of true-heartedness toward their wives. The more modest builders of ancestral ... Read more

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  • Their Majesties' Servants. Annals of the English Stage (Complete)

    by Dr. John Doran ...
    It is unnecessary to apologise for a new edition of Dr. Doran's Annals of the Stage. The two editions already published have been for many years out of print, and the first is so rare that copies of it bring a high price whenever they occur for sale. And this demand is not a mere bibliographical accident, for the book has held for many years a recognised position as the standard popular history of ... Read more

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  • The History of Court Fools

    by Dr. John Doran ...
    In the days of old, it happened that all Olympus was dull, and Zeus complained, yawning the while, that there was not a fool amongst the gods, with wit enough to keep the divine assembly alive, or to kill the members of it with laughter. “Father,” said Mercury, “the sport that is lacking here, may be found for us all, on earth. Look at that broad tract of land between the Peneus and Aliacmon. It ... Read more

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  • Memoir of Queen Adelaide, Consort of King William IV.

    by Dr. John Doran ...
    THE little Duchy of Saxe-Meinengen was once a portion of the inheritance of the princely Franconian house of Henneberg. The failure of the male line transferred it, in 1583, to the family of reigning Saxon princes. In 1680, it fell to the third son of the Saxon Duke, Ernest the Pious. The name of this son was Bernard. This Duke is looked upon as the founder of the House of Meinengen. He was much ... Read more

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    Enriched edition. A Literary Journey Through 18th-Century Life

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    Delving into the vivid tapestry of 18th-century life, 'Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)', edited by Lewis Melville, is a compelling anthology that captures the intellectual dynamism of its era. The collection spans a rich diversity of literary styles, from insightful essays and poignant letters to vivid biographical sketches, all unified by an overarching exploration of ... Read more

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  • Some Eccentrics & a Woman

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    Of the eight papers printed here, “Some Eighteenth-Century Men About Town,” “A Forgotten Satirist: ‘Peter Pindar’,” “Sterne’s Eliza,” and “William Beckford, of Fonthill Abbey,” have appeared in the Fortnightly Review; “Charles James Fox” appeared in the Monthly Review, “Exquisites of the Regency” in Chambers’s Journal, and “The Demoniacs” in the American Bookman. To the editors of these ... Read more

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    Enriched edition. Exploring the Literary Circles of 18th-Century England through Historic Letters

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