Once Upon a Time, Band 2J. Murray, 1854 |
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... scene , Charing Cross . It is a bonfire night . The fagot blazes in the centre of the narrow street ; the dozen farthing candles illuminate the barber's window ; the light gleams from the watchman's lanthorn , as he leads home the ...
... scene , Charing Cross . It is a bonfire night . The fagot blazes in the centre of the narrow street ; the dozen farthing candles illuminate the barber's window ; the light gleams from the watchman's lanthorn , as he leads home the ...
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... scenes of their own proper great- ness . Walpole , writing from Newmarket in 1743 , says , " How dismal , how solitary , how scrub does this town look ; and yet it has actually a street of houses better than Parma or Modena ! Nay , the ...
... scenes of their own proper great- ness . Walpole , writing from Newmarket in 1743 , says , " How dismal , how solitary , how scrub does this town look ; and yet it has actually a street of houses better than Parma or Modena ! Nay , the ...
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... scenes , and dresses . The directors have already laid out great sums . They talk of a mob to silence the operas , as they did the French players ; but it will be more difficult , for here half the young noblemen in town are engaged ...
... scenes , and dresses . The directors have already laid out great sums . They talk of a mob to silence the operas , as they did the French players ; but it will be more difficult , for here half the young noblemen in town are engaged ...
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... scene in Mr. Thrale's villa at Streatham . The house , as usual , is full of company . Mr. Boswell , who has recently arrived in London , comes for a morning visit ; and what was then called a " collation " is ordered . The sprightly ...
... scene in Mr. Thrale's villa at Streatham . The house , as usual , is full of company . Mr. Boswell , who has recently arrived in London , comes for a morning visit ; and what was then called a " collation " is ordered . The sprightly ...
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... scene . About five o'clock , carriage after carriage began to roll up the Castle hill . That hill was then a sort of street , with house after house , close up to the ugly barrack , called the Lodge , which Sir William Chambers had ...
... scene . About five o'clock , carriage after carriage began to roll up the Castle hill . That hill was then a sort of street , with house after house , close up to the ugly barrack , called the Lodge , which Sir William Chambers had ...
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amongst ancient Bekfudi BISHOP black ditch bouts-rimés bull-bait called Castle century CHARLES cheap Church coach Court Crabbe eggs England Essay ETON MONTEM Fanny Fanny Burney fashion Fcap Fourth Edition French George George's Chapel gone happy heard Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly History Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hundred India-rubber JOHN John's Gate Johnson King labour Lady letter literary lived London look Lord LORD MAHON Memoirs Miss Burney Montem morning never night Notes obsolete painted palace parish passed Plates poet poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds Queen recollect ROBERT SOUTHEY says scene Second Edition Shakspere shilling Silent Woman society Strawberry Hill streets talk taste tell things Third Edition tion town Translated Vathek Vols Voltaire walk wall Walpole to Mann Walpole's WASHINGTON IRVING whist Windsor Woodcuts writing young
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Seite 136 - 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...
Seite 137 - Anon, a Figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit ; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, 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...
Seite 85 - MDCCLXV. .LHE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
Seite 79 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
Seite 14 - Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within.
Seite 54 - ... 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...
Seite 36 - Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — " She heard, and drove him to th
Seite 293 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...