 | Olive Jocelyn Dunlop - 1913 - 288 ページ
...country life. Arthur Young attacked the increasing migration as being due to mere pleasureloving. " Young men and women in the country fix their eye on...for little else but to raise money enough to go to 1 Dunlop, " English Apprenticeship," pp. 223 f. • Ib., pp. 233 f. London, which was no such easy... | |
 | 1923 - 142 ページ
...LONDON, 1771. Arthur Young, The Farmer's Letters to the People of England, 2nd ed., 1771, pp. 353-354. Young men and women in the country fix their eye on...stage-coach was four or five days creeping an hundred miles ; and the fare and the expenses ran high. But now ! a country fellow one hundred miles from London... | |
 | Mary Dorothy George - 1925 - 502 ページ
...cottages counted for much, the lure of London probably counted for more. Arthur Young wrote in 1771 : " Young men and women in the country fix their eye on...go to London, which was no such easy matter when a stage coach was four or five days creeping an hundred miles ; and the fare and the expenses ran high.... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1926 - 192 ページ
...trend to move townward he was decidedly antagonistic. "Young men and women in the country villages, fix their eye on London, as the last stage of their...when a stage-coach was four or five days creeping one hundred miles; the fare and the expences ran high. But now, a country fellow, one hundred miles... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 ページ
...'improving' social order had enforced. He saw another part of the answer in the course of his question: Young men and women in the country fix their eye on London as the last stage of their hope. . . . The number of young women that fly there is incredible. An unequal interaction between country... | |
 | John R. Gillis - 1985 - 430 ページ
...century onward, London and the expanding industrial towns of the north seemed to offer the better future: Young men and women in the country fix their eye on...little else but to raise money enough to go to London. . . . [T]he numbers who have seen London are increased tenfold and of course ten times the boasts are... | |
 | Peter Clark, David Michael Palliser, Martin J. Daunton - 2000 - 980 ページ
...South of England where there were excessive supplies of rural labour. As Arthur Young famously quipped 'Young men and women in the country fix their eye on London as the last stage of their hope.'1" Richard Lawton estimated that perhaps three-quarters of a million people out of an estimated... | |
 | Frank Lambert - 2005 - 220 ページ
...youngsters a year [who] were arriving to seek their fortune." The agrarian writer Arthur Young wrote, "young men and women in the country fix their eye on London," drawn there by change and crisis in rural cottage industries. Writing of the influx in the early 1700s,... | |
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Young men and women in the country villages fix their eyes on London as the last stage of their hope. They enter into service in the country for little else but to raise money enough to go to London... 