fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets, and squares, and palaces, and churches. I am ' credibly informed, that, in the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses have been built in one quarter of Westminster, exclusive... The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: The expedition of Humphrey ... - Page 93by Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820Full view - About this book
| Tobias Smollett - 1793 - 268 pages
...feven years, eleven thoufand .new .houfes have been built in one quarter of Wcftaninfter, exclufive of what is daily added to other parts of this unwieldy metropolis. Pimlico and Knightfbridge are now almoft joined to Chelfea and Kenfington ; and if this infatuation continues for... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 280 pages
...even in its situation : as the Irishman said, London is now gone out of town. What I left open fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets,...palaces, and churches. I am credibly informed, that iu the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses have been built in one quarter of Westminster,... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...in its situation; as the Irishman said, „London is now gone out of town." What I left open fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets,...built in one quarter of Westminster, exclusive of «bat is daily added to other parts of this unwieldy metropolis. Pimilico and Knightsbridge**) are... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...in its situation : as the Irishman said, " London is now gone out of town." What I left open fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets,...exclusive of what is daily added to other parts of this up wieldly metropolis. Pimlico and Knightsbridge are now almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington; and... | |
| Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1831 - 472 pages
...in its situation : as the Irishman said, ' London is now gone out of town.' What I left open fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets,...other parts of this unwieldy metropolis. Pimlico and e Knightsbridge are now almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington ; and if this infatuation continues... | |
| Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...in its situation ; as the Irishman said, " London is now gone out of town." What I left open fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets...exclusive of what is daily added to other parts of this unwieldly metropolis. Pimlico and Knightsbridge are now almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington ; and,... | |
| Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1836 - 436 pages
...its situation; as the Irishman said, " London is now gone out of town." What I left open ' fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets,...other parts of this unwieldy metropolis. Pimlico and Kaightsbridge are now almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington ; and if this infatuation continues for... | |
| 1893 - 634 pages
...that strikes Mr. Bramble is the enormous extension of London. ' What I left open fields,' he says, ' producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets...unwieldy metropolis. Pimlico and Knightsbridge are almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington ; and if this infatuation continues for half a century, I suppose... | |
| Austin Dobson - English literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...that strikes Mr. Bramble is the enormous extension of London. ' What I left open fields,' he says, ' producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets,...unwieldy metropolis. Pimlico and Knightsbridge are almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington ; and if this infatuation continues for half a century, I suppose... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1902 - 680 pages
...Irishman said, " London is now gone out of town." — What I left open fields, producing hay and corn, 1 now find covered with streets and squares, and palaces...unwieldy metropolis. Pimlico, and Knightsbridge are almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington ; and, if this infatuation continues for half a century, I... | |
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