ABSTRACT
An early Georgian squib, Hell Upon Earth (1729), depicted London as a great, wicked, unweildy [sic] overgrown Town, one continued hurry of Vice and Pleasure; where nothing dwells but Absurdities, Abuses, Accidents, Accusations, Admirations, Adventures, Adversities, Advertisements, Adulteries, Affidavits, Affectations, Affirmations, Afflictions, Affronts, Aggravations, Agitations, Agonies, Airs, Alarms, Ailments, Allurements, Alterations, Ambitions, Amours, Amphitheatres, Anathemas, Animosities, Anxieties, Appointments, Apprehensions, Assemblies, Assessments, Assurances, Assignations, Attainders, Audacities, Aversions, &c.
