Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 63 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 63: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Page 63 This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or memoir titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes a formal social gathering in Dublin presided over by the Lord Lieutenant and his Lady. The narrator critiques Mr. Twiss's earlier observation about Irish women's legs, arguing that Twiss unfairly generalized about all ladies when his criticism should have been limited to lower-class women, whose leg thickness the narrator attributes to childhood deprivation (going barefoot and without stockings). The page uses period typography including the long "s" character.
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' A MONTHs TOUR. 63 At the upper end of the room the Lord Lieutenant and his Lady fit ‘en- thron’d, with their pages and aids de camp ftanding behind them. _ ‘The company was not very numerous $ but the ladies, as is univerfally the cafe at Dublin, were well dreffed, and danced with much vivacity. I cannot help thinking that there is more fmartnefs than truth in Mr. Twifs’s obfervation upon the ladies legs. He fhould have confined his cenfure to fe- males of inferior rank, the thicknefs ° of whofe legs may be attributed partly to their wearing neither fhoes nor ftockings in their infancy, and partly to the far . . adh ss greater comicbooks.com