Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 44 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 44: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a running prose page (page 44) from what appears to be a travel narrative titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes visiting a residence inhabited by Lady Dowager Maffereene, whose son has been imprisoned in France since a recent war for allegedly attempting to set French docks on fire. The narrator then reflects on the return journey, making disparaging generalizations about Irish peasants as "indolent" and "lazy," before noting departure from Dublin at eight o'clock. The page uses period typography (long "s" characters) typical of late 18th-century printing.
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44 A MONTH’s TOUR: with a great variety of agreeable profpects. It is at this time inhabited by the. Lady | Dowager Mafiereene, whofe fon has beer confined in France fince about the con- clufion of the laft war, for having .at- tempted to fet fome of the French docks OR fire. 4 -In our return from hence our patience was fairly put to-the trial. It has been obferved that the Irifh pea- fantry are an indolent, lazy tribe ; and, if it were right to form our judgment of a whole people from a fingle individual, the inflance we now met with would abun- danily prove the fact. We fet out from Dublin at eight o’clock in comicbooks.com