...lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson, entry, Sept. 20, 1777(1791). 6 I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and...with dead nature. The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street, the innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses, all the...

...waggons, playhouses, all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden, the very women of the town, the Watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles - life awake,...hours of the night, the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street, the crowds, the very dirt 8c mud, the Sun shining upon houses and pavements, the print...

...Lamb declined with a letter (dated January 30, 1801), which has since become famous: I have passed all my days in London until I have formed as many and...with dead Nature. The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street; the innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses; all the...

...Eliot, spent his early working years as a clerk in the city—declared in 1801 that "I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and...as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature";'9 writing to John and Leigh Hunt's The Reflector ten years later, he extends the thought by...

...waggons, playhouses, all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden, the very women of the Town, the Watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles, - life awake,...hours of the night, the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street, the crowds, the very dirt & mud, the Sun shining upon houses and pavements, the print...