Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . /.^m^,t^ : WITS BEAUX :AND BEAUTIES OFTHE GEORGIAN ERA BY JOHN FYVIE WITH A FRONTISPIECEIN PHOTOGRAVURE AND NUMEROUSILLUSTRATIONS REPRODUCED FROMCONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS ^ PRINTS LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMIX 3^ TutnbuU & Shears, Printers, Edinburgh PREFACE BEFORE proceeding to give an account of someof the wits, beaux, and beauties of theGeorgian Era it may be well to remind thereader of certain conspicuous differences be-tween the Town and people of that day and theLondon and Londoners with which we are famil

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Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . /.^m^,t^ : WITS BEAUX :AND BEAUTIES OFTHE GEORGIAN ERA BY JOHN FYVIE WITH A FRONTISPIECEIN PHOTOGRAVURE AND NUMEROUSILLUSTRATIONS REPRODUCED FROMCONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS ^ PRINTS LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMIX 3^ TutnbuU & Shears, Printers, Edinburgh PREFACE BEFORE proceeding to give an account of someof the wits, beaux, and beauties of theGeorgian Era it may be well to remind thereader of certain conspicuous differences be-tween the Town and people of that day and theLondon and Londoners with which we are familiar. Someof these points of difference are only incidentally alludedto in the following pages; and the characters dealtwith will perhaps be better understood if we provideourselves at the outset with a clearer idea of theirsurroundings. It is weU to remember that at the beginning of theGeorgian Era a person might reach the open countryfrom any part of the Town in a quarter of an wealthy suburb, indeed, had already sprung up in theWewitsbeauxbeautie00fyvi

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