Real Life in London, Or the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. And His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, Through the Metropolis, Vol. 1

Real Life in London, Or the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. And His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, Through the Metropolis, Vol. 1
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9780483720091

Excerpt from Real Life in London, or the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. And His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, Through the Metropolis, Vol. 1: Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life A successful election, 590. Political inferences, 591. Patriotic intentions, 592. Political dinner, 593. Patriotic ebullitions checked, 594. Another bear-garden, 595. Charley's theatre, 596. Bear-baiting sports, 597. Real amateurs, 598. The coronation, 599. Coronation banquet and splendour, 600. The champion, 602. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries

A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2004-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199254702

The second volume of Julie Coleman's fascinating and entertaining history of the uses and the recording of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858 and explores its first manifestations in the USA and Australia.During this period glossaries of cant are thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now include the language of thieves and cover a broad spectrum of non-standard English. Cant represented a practical threat to life and property. Slang, the author reveals, was a threat to the moral core of society, insidiously seductive to a wide section of the public.Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionised lexicography of non-standard English. She explores the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police.