Literary Landmarks of LondonJames R. Osgood and Company, 1885 - 361 էջ |
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... letters , to add the correct postal initials ; and it may be desirable for the duplicated numbers to add either ' near Marble Arch , ' or ' near Holborn , ' as the case may be , as part of the address . I rest this portion of my case ...
... letters , to add the correct postal initials ; and it may be desirable for the duplicated numbers to add either ' near Marble Arch , ' or ' near Holborn , ' as the case may be , as part of the address . I rest this portion of my case ...
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... letters is not to be inferred from the amount of space devoted to them here . Wordsworth and Herrick have as- signed to them but a few lines , simply because they were not poets of brick and mortar , and knew almost nothing of town life ...
... letters is not to be inferred from the amount of space devoted to them here . Wordsworth and Herrick have as- signed to them but a few lines , simply because they were not poets of brick and mortar , and knew almost nothing of town life ...
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... letters . These will find place , perhaps , in succeeding volumes , to be devoted to the artistic and dramatic memories of the metropolis . Living writers , of course , are not mentioned at all . For the convenience of those interested ...
... letters . These will find place , perhaps , in succeeding volumes , to be devoted to the artistic and dramatic memories of the metropolis . Living writers , of course , are not mentioned at all . For the convenience of those interested ...
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... letters of Steele are dated , written at times when he seems to have been the guest of Addison . Thackeray's Esmond , book iii . chap . ix . When the time came to leave , Esmond marched homeward to his lodgings , and met Mr. Addison on ...
... letters of Steele are dated , written at times when he seems to have been the guest of Addison . Thackeray's Esmond , book iii . chap . ix . When the time came to leave , Esmond marched homeward to his lodgings , and met Mr. Addison on ...
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... Letters of Addison to the young Earl of Warwick , dated simply at Chelsea , are said to have been written — but this is merely traditional in Sandford Manor House , at one time the residence of Nell Gwynne . This house , standing in ...
... Letters of Addison to the young Earl of Warwick , dated simply at Chelsea , are said to have been written — but this is merely traditional in Sandford Manor House , at one time the residence of Nell Gwynne . This house , standing in ...
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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.