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Title: Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.
Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And
His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis;
Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters,
Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)

Author: Pierce Egan

Illustrator: Heath, Aiken, Dighton, and Rowlandson

Release Date: January 30, 2007 [EBook #20484]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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REAL LIFE IN LONDON

OR, THE RAMBLES AND ADVENTURES OF BOB TALLYHO, ESQ., AND HIS COUSIN, THE
HON. TOM DASHALL, THROUGH THE METROPOLIS; EXHIBITING A LIVING PICTURE OF
FASHIONABLE CHARACTERS, MANNERS, AND AMUSEMENTS IN HIGH AND LOW LIFE

By an AMATEUR

"'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a
world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd."
--Cowper

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EMBELLISHED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A SERIES OF

COLOURED PRINTS, DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED

BY MESSRS. HEATH, AIKEN, DIGHTON,

ROWLANDSON, ETC.

VOLUME I

A NEW EDITION

METHUEN & CO. LONDON

NOTE

This Issue, first published in 1905, is founded on the Edition printed
for Jones & Co. in the year 1821

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CONTENTS:

Chapter I.

Seduction from rural simplicity, page 2. Pleasures of the
table, 3. Overpowering oratory, 4. A warm dispute, 5.
Amicable arrangement, 6.

Chapter II.

Philosophical reflections, 7. A great master, 8. Modern
jehuism, 9. A coach race, 10. A wood-nymph, 11. Improvements
of the age, 12. An amateur of fashion, 13. Theatrical
criticism, 14. Reflections, 15.

Chapter III.

Hyde Park, and its various characters, 16. Sir F----s B----
tt, 22, Delightful reverie, 23.

Chapter IV.

Fresh game sprung, 24. Lord C----e, alias Coal-hole George,
25. Rot at Carlton Palace, 28. Once-a-week man, 29. Sunday
promenader, 30. How t