Literary Landmarks of LondonJames R. Osgood and Company, 1885 - 361 էջ |
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... 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 , which ...
... 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 , which ...
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... Park , Twickenham , but his house has been taken down . The estate is covered with villas ; and no trace of it , as it existed at that time , remains . Bacon was married , in 1606 , at the Chapel of St. Maryle- bone , described by ...
... Park , Twickenham , but his house has been taken down . The estate is covered with villas ; and no trace of it , as it existed at that time , remains . Bacon was married , in 1606 , at the Chapel of St. Maryle- bone , described by ...
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... Park Street , Southwark , ' not far from the Brewery ' ( of Barclay and Perkins ) ; in Swallow Street , Piccadilly ; in Pinner's Hall , and in St. James's Market Place . After the indulgence in 1672 , he returned into the city , and was ...
... Park Street , Southwark , ' not far from the Brewery ' ( of Barclay and Perkins ) ; in Swallow Street , Piccadilly ; in Pinner's Hall , and in St. James's Market Place . After the indulgence in 1672 , he returned into the city , and was ...
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... Park . Strype described it as ' being very long . . . but of no great account for buildings or inhabitants . ' Swallow Street , Piccadilly , and Swallow Place , Oxford Street , perpetuated its name as late as 1885. Of course no traces ...
... Park . Strype described it as ' being very long . . . but of no great account for buildings or inhabitants . ' Swallow Street , Piccadilly , and Swallow Place , Oxford Street , perpetuated its name as late as 1885. Of course no traces ...
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... Park Lane , to which he took his wife and infant daughter . It was unchanged in 1885. In 1837 a letter of Bulwer's was dated from The Albany ' ( see BYRON , p . 32 ) . In the year 1839 James Smith , in a letter , relates : ' I dined ...
... Park Lane , to which he took his wife and infant daughter . It was unchanged in 1885. In 1837 a letter of Bulwer's was dated from The Albany ' ( see BYRON , p . 32 ) . In the year 1839 James Smith , in a letter , relates : ' I dined ...
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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 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 7 - Coffee-house, and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room, as one who comes there to hear and improve. My face is likewise very well known at the Grecian, the Cocoa-Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket.
Էջ 120 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had...
Էջ 289 - And being then asked why he did not discharge them, declared that they were bailiffs, who had introduced themselves with an execution, and whom, since he could not send them away, he had thought it convenient to embellish with liveries, that they might do him credit while they staid.
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 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 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.
Էջ 251 - Then being asked which way he would lay himself on the block, he answered, " So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.