The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsSmith, Elder, and Company, 1859 - 449 pages |
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... perhaps is there a single spot in London in which the past is not visibly present to us , either in the shape of some old buildings or at least in the names of the streets ; or in which the absence of more tangible memorials may not be ...
... perhaps is there a single spot in London in which the past is not visibly present to us , either in the shape of some old buildings or at least in the names of the streets ; or in which the absence of more tangible memorials may not be ...
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... perhaps had faculties no longer to be found in connection with brute forms , and effaced , together with themselves , for a nobler experiment . We may indulge our fancy with supposing that , in those times , light itself , and the ...
... perhaps had faculties no longer to be found in connection with brute forms , and effaced , together with themselves , for a nobler experiment . We may indulge our fancy with supposing that , in those times , light itself , and the ...
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... Perhaps the word itself was not originally what we take it to be . Who would suspect the word wig to come from peruke ; jour from dies ; uncle from avus ; or that Kensington should have been cor- rupted by the despairing organs of a ...
... Perhaps the word itself was not originally what we take it to be . Who would suspect the word wig to come from peruke ; jour from dies ; uncle from avus ; or that Kensington should have been cor- rupted by the despairing organs of a ...
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... perhaps sooner than is looked for , prevent it . Railways now allow numbers to reside at a distance , who a few years ago would have remained in London . Ancient British London is conjectured to have been about a mile long , and half a ...
... perhaps sooner than is looked for , prevent it . Railways now allow numbers to reside at a distance , who a few years ago would have remained in London . Ancient British London is conjectured to have been about a mile long , and half a ...
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... perhaps not one , nor many out of the pale of it , from some part of which the passenger may not discern a tree . persons to whom this has been mentioned have doubted the accuracy of our information , nor do we profess hitherto to have ...
... perhaps not one , nor many out of the pale of it , from some part of which the passenger may not discern a tree . persons to whom this has been mentioned have doubted the accuracy of our information , nor do we profess hitherto to have ...
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actor admired afterwards appears Baynard's Castle Ben Jonson Bishop Boswell Buckingham called celebrated character Charles Charles II church Cibber coach coffee-house court Covent Garden curious death Drury Lane Dryden Duchess Duchess of Albemarle Duke Earl Elizabeth England Essex famous favour favourite Fleet Street Garrick gave gentleman hand Henry honour Inigo Jones James James's Johnson King King's house King's playhouse Lady Lady Castlemaine letter Lincoln's Inn Fields lived Londinium London look Lord Russell Lord Sandwich Majesty manner married Miss Ray Mohun neighbourhood Nell Gwynn never NEWCASTLE HOUSE night palace Paul's Pennant Pepys perhaps person play poet Pope present Prince probably Queen reign royal says scene seems Shakspeare side Sir John Ayres Somerset Somerset House speak spirit stand story supposed Tatler tavern Temple theatre thing thought tion told took walk Whitehall wife word writer
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Page 364 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Page 362 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 35 - WEEP with me, all you that read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Page 322 - O, Sir, I cannot think Mr. Garrick would grudge such a trifle to you." " Sir, (said he, with a stern look,) I have known David Garrick longer than you have done ; and I know no right you have to talk to me on the subject.
Page 363 - Blest madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both (to show his judgment) in extremes ; So over violent, or over civil, That every man, with him, was God or devil.
Page 270 - Dream," which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Page 259 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you. I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room with her hair hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms. This I have seen since I saw you.
Page 231 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 111 - The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed, and I believe, if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused.
Page 93 - Short; rather plump than emaciated, notwithstanding his complaints: about five foot five inches: fair wig; lightish cloth coat, all black besides: one hand generally in his bosom, the other a cane in it, which he leans upon under the skirts of his coat usually, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a support, when attacked by sudden tremors or startings, and dizziness...