Once Upon a Time, Volumen1John Murray, 1854 |
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... described ! He sets out , as what sensible man would not , with his feet pro- tected with " firm , well - hammer'd soles ; " but if the shoe be too big , " Each stone will wrench th ' unwary step aside . " This , we see , is a London ...
... described ! He sets out , as what sensible man would not , with his feet pro- tected with " firm , well - hammer'd soles ; " but if the shoe be too big , " Each stone will wrench th ' unwary step aside . " This , we see , is a London ...
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... described in Hall , had an awful chance to save his " perewinke " in such an encounter ; when , with his " bonnet vail'd , " according to the " courtesies " of his time , " Travelling along in London way , " he has to recover his ...
... described in Hall , had an awful chance to save his " perewinke " in such an encounter ; when , with his " bonnet vail'd , " according to the " courtesies " of his time , " Travelling along in London way , " he has to recover his ...
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... described in the classics - may behold a relic of the manners of a hundred years ago in some of our existing squares and streets , that have stood up against the caprices of fashion . On each side the door - way , and gene- rally ...
... described in the classics - may behold a relic of the manners of a hundred years ago in some of our existing squares and streets , that have stood up against the caprices of fashion . On each side the door - way , and gene- rally ...
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... described them as something like a wonder of the world . Beneath the faint lamp slept the watchman ; or , if he walked , he still walked with his lanthorn ; and the link - boy , yet a needful auxiliary to the lamp and the lanthorn ...
... described them as something like a wonder of the world . Beneath the faint lamp slept the watchman ; or , if he walked , he still walked with his lanthorn ; and the link - boy , yet a needful auxiliary to the lamp and the lanthorn ...
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... described spent a vast deal of their time in places of public resort . Let us cast a rapid glance at the fashionable amuse- ments of the second half of the last century . The year 1741 presents to us a curious spectacle of the ...
... described spent a vast deal of their time in places of public resort . Let us cast a rapid glance at the fashionable amuse- ments of the second half of the last century . The year 1741 presents to us a curious spectacle of the ...
Términos y frases comunes
amongst ancient Bekfudi bell black ditch Borough bouts-rimés bull-bait called Camden Town Castle century Chatterton cheap Cheapside cittern coach Court Crabbe dinner doubt eggs England Fanny Fanny Burney fashion George III George's Chapel gone Hall formerly stood happy heard Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hour hundred India-rubber Jedediah John's Gate Johnson King labour Lady laugh letter link-boy literary lived London look Lord Miss Burney Montem morning never night obsolete once painted palace parish passed poet poor pounds Queen recollect Robert Jephson royal says scene shilling Silent Woman society spot where Hicks's Strawberry Hill streets talk taste Tatler tell things tion town Vauxhall Voltaire walk wall Walpole to Mann Walpole's whist Windsor Windsor Terrace writing young
Pasajes populares
Página 142 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
Página 188 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 145 - Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock: A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask ; The rest he gives to loves and labours light, To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better skill'd the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide; A sportsman keen, he shoots through half the day, And, skill'd at whist, devotes the night to play : Then, while such honours bloom around his head,...
Página 143 - With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go, He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye...
Página 59 - Friday ; the crowd was so great that even the noble mob in the drawing-room clambered upon chairs and tables to look at her. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs ; and people go early to get places at the theatres when it is known they will be there.
Página 60 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
Página 143 - Whose murd'rous hand a drowsy Bench protect, And whose most tender mercy is neglect. Paid by the parish for attendance here, He wears contempt upon his sapient sneer; In haste he seeks the bed where Misery lies, Impatience mark'd in his averted eyes; And, some habitual queries hurried o'er, Without reply, he rushes on the door: His drooping patient, long inured to pain, And long unheeded, knows remonstrance vain ; He ceases now the feeble help to crave Of man ; and silent sinks into the grave. But...
Página 145 - The holy stranger to these dismal walls ; And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, "passing rich with forty pounds a year?
Página 59 - I went to hear it — for it is not an apparition, but an audition — we set out from the opera, changed our clothes at Northumberland House, the Duke of York, Lady Northumberland, Lady Mary Coke, Lord Hertford and I, all in one...
Página 13 - Like the sweet ballad, this amusing lay Too long detains the walker on his way ; While he attends, new dangers round him throng ; The busy city asks instructive song.