Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for being’ dressed extremely genteel, and liis pudding, in general, very clean: several minor pudding-mongershave risen up, and endeavoured to imitate his cry, but they fall infinitely short of the original, in loquacity, address, and witty sayings. Shuter, the comedian, once entertained the town with his imitations of the various cries of London ; they formed a conspicuous line in the play-bills of his time; Johannot, also, imi¬ tated some characters very happily. Foreigners have often exerted their pencil in pourtray- ing the costumi of the Criers of London: why should they not find a nitch in history, as well as the gay, licentious man of fortune? Spurn not then the humble efforts of the poor. “ Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely songs, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile. The short and simple annals of the poor!”