Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 83 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 83: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This is a **running prose page** (page 83) from what appears to be a travel narrative or diary titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes the narrator's visit to an asylum for Magdalens (a refuge for women), praising the institution built through the charitable efforts of Lady Arabella Denny and Dean Bailey. It mentions the Foundling Hospital and notes a dinner engagement at "Mr. P——'s" house. The page employs period typography (long s's) and is clearly mid-narrative, breaking off mid-sentence at the bottom.
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Ay MCONT.H’s. TOUR. 83 public ftage. No actors can do it fufh- cient juftice. On the fourth went to divine fervice at the afylum for Magdalens, where thefe poor unfortunate creatures have an excel- lent opportunity of recovering from thofe fatal deviations from virtue,. which have been the caufe of their mifery. Tt is a fmall edifice, built at the united expence of Lady Arabella Denny and Dean Bailey, an Anglefey gentleman. Thefe two excellent perfons, who go hand in hana in all charitable works, were the. chief promoters of that truly humane: inftis tution the Foundling Hofpital- * We dined at Mr. P———s, and attended L 2 even-— comicbooks.com