Once Upon a Time, Volumen1John Murray, 1854 |
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... four compositors . A grave man is reading at a desk , and he bows reverently to the gallants in lace and ruffles , who thus honour him by a visit to his dark den of letters . 66 Why , Mr. Buckley , " says Steele , “ your narrow passages ...
... four compositors . A grave man is reading at a desk , and he bows reverently to the gallants in lace and ruffles , who thus honour him by a visit to his dark den of letters . 66 Why , Mr. Buckley , " says Steele , “ your narrow passages ...
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... four generations . The stand which he purchased in Bolt Court ( in the wonderful resemblance of external appearance between all these Fleet Street courts , we cannot be sure that it was Bolt Court ) had been handed down from one ...
... four generations . The stand which he purchased in Bolt Court ( in the wonderful resemblance of external appearance between all these Fleet Street courts , we cannot be sure that it was Bolt Court ) had been handed down from one ...
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... four feet high , between the foot - path and the coach - road , to preserve the passengers from injury , and from being covered with the mud which was splashed on all sides in abun- dance . " The pales here preserved the passengers more ...
... four feet high , between the foot - path and the coach - road , to preserve the passengers from injury , and from being covered with the mud which was splashed on all sides in abun- dance . " The pales here preserved the passengers more ...
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... four lawyers getting out of a hackney - coach that has come in collision with a carman , while the brewer's man rides upon his shaft in somniferous majesty ; t the dustman's bell , the little boy's drum , the knife - grinder's wheel ...
... four lawyers getting out of a hackney - coach that has come in collision with a carman , while the brewer's man rides upon his shaft in somniferous majesty ; t the dustman's bell , the little boy's drum , the knife - grinder's wheel ...
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... four parishes that way , and I thank him he did ; and cried his games under Master Morose's window ; till he was sent crying away , with his head made a most bleeding spectacle to the multitude . And , another time , a fencer marching ...
... four parishes that way , and I thank him he did ; and cried his games under Master Morose's window ; till he was sent crying away , with his head made a most bleeding spectacle to the multitude . And , another time , a fencer marching ...
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
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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.