Literary Landmarks of LondonT. Fisher Unwin, 1888 - 363 էջ |
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... LAURENCE.HUTTON Fourth Edition REVISED AND ENLARGED Harvard College Liorary . LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN 26 , PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1888 tal rights reserved ] 1082 19 ↓ 10468.321 / 2 .. 2 4413.10.5 Harvard LITERARY LANDMARKS.
... LAURENCE.HUTTON Fourth Edition REVISED AND ENLARGED Harvard College Liorary . LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN 26 , PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1888 tal rights reserved ] 1082 19 ↓ 10468.321 / 2 .. 2 4413.10.5 Harvard LITERARY LANDMARKS.
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... Square , in St. James's Place , St. James's Street , at Fulham , and at Chelsea . His earliest associations with London were with the Charter House School , to which , after studying under his father's eye at Lichfield and Salisbury ...
... Square , in St. James's Place , St. James's Street , at Fulham , and at Chelsea . His earliest associations with London were with the Charter House School , to which , after studying under his father's eye at Lichfield and Salisbury ...
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... square [ Kensington Square ] one of whom Thackeray , a hundred and forty years after , thus wrote from the same place : ' When this man looks from the world , whose weak- nesses he describes so benevolently , up to Heaven , which shines ...
... square [ Kensington Square ] one of whom Thackeray , a hundred and forty years after , thus wrote from the same place : ' When this man looks from the world , whose weak- nesses he describes so benevolently , up to Heaven , which shines ...
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... Square . Park's Mr. Dyson parted with his villa at North End , and settled his friend [ Akenside ] in a sensible house in Blooms- Hampstead bury Square , assigning him , with unexampled liber- ( 1818 ) , p . 331. ality , £ 300 a year ...
... Square . Park's Mr. Dyson parted with his villa at North End , and settled his friend [ Akenside ] in a sensible house in Blooms- Hampstead bury Square , assigning him , with unexampled liber- ( 1818 ) , p . 331. ality , £ 300 a year ...
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... Square , adjoining the gardens in which the great philosopher took such delight . Inn . He is said to have designed these gardens , and to have planted the old catalpa - tree still standing there in 1885 . Bacon is said to have found a ...
... Square , adjoining the gardens in which the great philosopher took such delight . Inn . He is said to have designed these gardens , and to have planted the old catalpa - tree still standing there in 1885 . Bacon is said to have found a ...
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Էջ 176 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Էջ 158 - Network: anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances with interstices between the intersections.
Էջ 156 - Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, ' He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood'.
Էջ 76 - Whereas Daniel De Foe, alias De Fooe, is charged with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet, entitled, ' The Shortest Way with the Dissenters...
Էջ 215 - I have heard many years since," says Richardson, " that he used to sit in a grey coarse cloth coat at the door of his house near Bunhill Fields, without Moorgate, in warm sunny weather, to enjoy the fresh air, and so, as well as in his room, received the visits of people of distinguished parts as well as quality...
Էջ 295 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Էջ 145 - I papered the walls with a trellis of roses ; I had the ceiling coloured with clouds and sky ; the barred windows I screened with Venetian blinds ; and when my bookcases were set up with their busts, and flowers and a pianoforte made their appearance, perhaps there was not a handsomer room on that side the water.
Էջ 186 - Friend, — White, or some of my friends, or the public papers, by this time may have informed you of the terrible calamities that have fallen on our family. I will only give you the outlines : — My poor dear, dearest sister, in a fit of insanity, has been the death of her own mother. I was at hand only time enough to snatch the knife out of her grasp. She is at present in a madhouse, from whence I fear she must be moved to an hospital. God has preserved to me my senses, — I eat, and drink, and...
Էջ 95 - In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the great Coffee-house 1 there, where I never was before : where Dryden, the poet, I knew at Cambridge, and all the wits of the town, and Harris the player, and Mr. Hoole, of our College. And, had I had time then, or could at other times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty and pleasant discourse.
Էջ 219 - An old black-laced hood represents the first, the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third, serves for the second ; a dimity petticoat is deputy, and officiates for the fourth, and slippers act the part of the last.