A guide to health, beauty, riches and honour / [Edited, with preface, by F. Grose].

  • Francis Grose
Date:
1796
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to health, beauty, riches and honour / [Edited, with preface, by F. Grose]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V au! s from the horfes to the ground, and from the ground over the horfes feveral different times, in a manner quite new and entertaining. M». Aftley, Mr. Gridin and Matter Phillips, rides three horfes in an extraordinary manner. Mr. Artley and Mr. Griffin carry Mafter Phillips on their fhoulder— really a rnojl furprizing equilibrium on horfeback.. Rides with his head on the faddieon full fpeed. The mod extraordinary and uncommon exhibition of the learned Military Little Horfe. This little animal will prove his abilities to be far fuperior to any horfe in the kingdom ; he readily anfwers various queftions, tells gold from filver, and its value; ladies from gentlemen, &c. Mr. Adley bor- rows an handkerchief, which the horfe carries in his mouth, and tells the perfon it was borrowed from ; he ttrikes with his foot the hour of the clay, day of the month, &c. He pleafes and deceives the eye with different deceptions. He falls lame, (hams a pain in his head, imitates ficknefs, and on being told he is to fight for the Spaniards, he lays down as if dead ; but on the contrary being told he is to go to Ger- many with his Maher and Elliot’s dragoons, he rifes and fires a piftol, as if he underhood word for word. The Britifh failor groggey, on a rehive horfe. The French poft~boy on an Englifh horfe. The Taylor going to Brentford, in drefs and chara&er. To which will be added, a moh extraordinary new enter- tainment, never exhibited in this part of Europe, call’d Le Spectacle (incomparable) de la Place St. Mark, Venice; or, the Egyptian Pyramids. The CHARACTERS by Signor Baladine, Signor Carralino, Signor Sumney, Sig- nor Jacundus, Signor Manfa, Signor Huri, Signor Jacob, Signor Pedianus, and others. The different towers, domes, arches, pedehals and fpires, are juhly imitated, and the whole will be prefented juh in the fame manner, and by the fame perfons as performed in Paris with univerfal applaufe. Mr. Ahlev, in his late travels through France, &c. has by clofe application much improved his performance, and begs leave to inform the Nobility, Gentry and Others, that mod affuredly the performers of the Egyptian Pyramids will return to France in a few evenings. Notwithttanding the great variety, the price of admittance is only 2s, in the gallery, is. in the riding-fchool. Nothing under
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