London, Volume 1Charles Knight Charles Knight & Company, 1841 - London (England) |
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... doubt went , for through Charing he would have made a day's journey . Wanting money , he has no choice but to return to the country ; and having to go " into Kent , " he applies to the watermen at Billingsgate : - 66 Then hied I me to ...
... doubt went , for through Charing he would have made a day's journey . Wanting money , he has no choice but to return to the country ; and having to go " into Kent , " he applies to the watermen at Billingsgate : - 66 Then hied I me to ...
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... doubt that the coach first appeared about 1564 ; although the question was subsequently raised " whether the devil brought tobacco into England in a coach , or else brought a coach in a fog or mist of tobacco . " + Stow thus describes ...
... doubt that the coach first appeared about 1564 ; although the question was subsequently raised " whether the devil brought tobacco into England in a coach , or else brought a coach in a fog or mist of tobacco . " + Stow thus describes ...
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... doubt of the matter , the vain favourite must have paraded with his new luxury , " degrading Englishmen into slaves and beasts of burden , " ( as a writer of that day expresses himself , ) upon the instant of his return . But the ...
... doubt of the matter , the vain favourite must have paraded with his new luxury , " degrading Englishmen into slaves and beasts of burden , " ( as a writer of that day expresses himself , ) upon the instant of his return . But the ...
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... doubt that the chair was a most flourishing invention . The state of the pavement till the middle of the last cen- tury must have rendered carriage con- veyance anything rather than safe and pleasant . Dulaure tells us that before the ...
... doubt that the chair was a most flourishing invention . The state of the pavement till the middle of the last cen- tury must have rendered carriage con- veyance anything rather than safe and pleasant . Dulaure tells us that before the ...
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... doubt safer , but it had its inconveniences . Swift describes the unhappy condition of a fop during a " City shower : " - " Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits , While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits ; And ever and anon ...
... doubt safer , but it had its inconveniences . Swift describes the unhappy condition of a fop during a " City shower : " - " Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits , While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits ; And ever and anon ...
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Page 269 - ... all the day long. 13 As for me, I was like a deaf man, and heard not : and as one that is dumb, who doth not open his mouth. 14 I became even as a man that heareth not : and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Page 103 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 430 - Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.
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Page 377 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies, The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Page 432 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Page 213 - Through the high wood echoing shrill. Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
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Page 361 - Following his Majesty this morning through the gallery, I went with the few who attended him, into the Duchess of Portmouth's DRESSING ROOM within her bedchamber, where she was in her morning loose garment, her maids combing her, newly out of her bed, his Majesty and the gallants standing about her...