 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 pages
...come ducking to Islington Ponds." — BEN JONSON, Every Man in hit Humour. " 21th March, 1664. — Walked through the Ducking Pond Fields ; but they...Islington, to the old man's, at the King's Head, to cat cakea and ale (his name was Pitts), that I did not know which was the Ducking Pond (see Ball's... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1855 - 504 pages
...through the ducking-pond fields ; but ey are so altered since my father1 used to carry us to Isling, to the old man's, at the King's Head, to eat cakes and (his name was Pitts), that I did not know which was the cking-pond, nor where I was. So home ; and... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1869 - 706 pages
...' ducking,' but for its cheesecakes and custards. Pepys records how his father used to carry him ' to Islington to the old man's at the King's Head to eat cakes and ale (his name was Pitts),' and after that the once noted wells were discovered by Sadler in the garden of a house which he had... | |
 | Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - Inn signs - 1866 - 616 pages
...Another King's Head is mentioned by Pepys, 26th March 166^:— " Thence walked through the ducking-pond fields, but they are so altered since my father used to carry us to Islington, to the old man a at the Kingshead, to eat cakes and ale (his name was Pitts,) that I did not know which was the... | |
 | Joseph Meadows Cowper - Satire, English - 1871 - 230 pages
...what we 1 p. 60. 2 Samuel Pepys visited Islington at various times. "My father," he says (ii. Ill), "used to carry us to Islington, to the old man's, at the King's Head, to eat cakes and ale." " Back to Islington, and at the King's Head, where Pitts lived, we 'light, and eat and drunk for remembrance... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 532 pages
...Every Man in hie Hnmnr. " 21th March, 1664. — Walked through the Ducking Pond Fields; but they arc so altered since my father used to carry us to Islington,...to eat cakes and ale (his name was Pitts), that I <liil not know which was the Ducking Pond (KCC Ball's Pond), nor where I was." — PKPVS. 3 A kind... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 438 pages
...saw her sister, who indeed is pretty, with a fine Roman nose. Thence walked through the ducking-pond fields ; but they are so altered since my father used...old man's, at the King's Head, to eat cakes and ale, that I did not know which was the ducking-pond, nor where I was. [The site of the ducking-pond, where... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 640 pages
...that come aducking to Islington Ponds. — Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour. March 27, 1664. — Walked through the Ducking Pond Fields; but they are...carry us to Islington, to the old man's, at the King's 1 A couplet fathered on Drydcn, in the Whig Examiner, by Addison. Head, to eat cakes and ale (his name... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1904 - 486 pages
...saw her sister, who indeed is pretty, with a fine Roman nose. Thence walked through the duckingpond fields ; but they are so altered since my father used to carry us to Islington,2 to the old man's, at the King's Head, to eat cakes and ale (his name was Pitts) that I... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1905 - 860 pages
...saw her sister, who indeed is pretty, with a fine Roman nose. Thence walked through the ducking-pond mple. Back to dinner at Sir William Batten s ; and then, after Head,3 to eat cakes and ale (his name was Pitts), that I did not know which was the ducking-pond, nor... | |
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Thence walked through the ducking-pond fields ; but they are so altered since my father used to carry us to Islington, to the old man's, at the King's Head,3 to eat cakes and ale... 
