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Title: Bird's eye views of society
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883
Subjects: Great Britain
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder

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ant to think that the entertain-ments are fo various, that there is a chance of everybodystafte being fatisfied—that if people are not pleafed withone thing they may be with another; and that if the earis not charmed with mufic, aftonifhment may be excited,and ladies and gentlemen may be roufed to enthufiafm by feeing the wondrous feats that may be accomplifhed onthe tight-rope, and the extraordinary contortions of whichthe human acrobat is capable on the earth or in the air. When Song, and Comic Dance, and fmoke, and eating,and drinking, or Dramatic Scenes, or Nigger Serenaders,or Infant Prodigies, lofe their charm, the public may ftillbe drawn in thoufands, and will overflow nightly to witnefsany performance in which the perfonal danger to the per-former is fufficiently great, that the feelings of fpectatorsare likely to be arrowed up, and a reafonable profpeclexifts, that, in cafe of any flip or accident, ferious dangerto limb, if not inftant death, is likely to be the refult. 34
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Dinner down the River. Whitebait Down the River.

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