 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 420 pages
...with brick. IT muft be allowed, indeed, for the credit of the prefent age, that London and Weftminfter are much better paved and lighted than they were formerly. The new ftreets are fpacious, regular, and airy, and the houfes generally convenient. The bridge at Blackfriars... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 560 pages
...with brick. It muft be allowed, indeed, for the credit of the prefent age, that London and Weftminfter are much better paved and lighted than they were formerly. The new ftreets are fpacious, regular, and airy, and the houfes generally convenient. The bridge at Blackfriars... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Scots' (Reign of George III, iv. 328). In the letter dated May 29, he makes Mr. Bramble say : — ' The bridge at Blackfriars is a noble monument of taste and public spirit — I wonder how they stumbled upon a work of such magnificence and utility.' ' Juvenal, Sat.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...Scots ' (Reign of George III, iv. 328). In the letter dated May 29. he makes Mr. Bramble say : — ' The bridge at Blackfriars is a noble monument of taste and public spirit — I wonder how they stumbled upon a work of such magnificence and utility." 1 Juvenal, Sat.... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 280 pages
...and if this infatuation continues for half a century, I suppose the whole county of Middlesex will be covered with brick. It must be allowed, indeed, for...Blackfriars is a noble monument of taste and public spirit. I wonder how they stumbled upon a work of such magnificence and utility. But, notwithstanding... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 280 pages
...and if this infatuation continues for half a century, I suppose the whole county of Middlesex will be covered with brick. It must be allowed, indeed, for...Blackfriars is a noble monument of taste and public spirit. I wonder how they stumbled upon a work of such magnificence and utility. But, notwithstanding... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 584 pages
...and, if this infatuation continues for half a century, I suppose the whole county of Middlesex will be covered with brick. It must be allowed, indeed, for...and the houses generally convenient. The bridge at Blackfriurs is a noble monument of taste and public spirit — I wonder how they stumbled upon a work... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...continues (or half a century , I suppose the whole county of Middlesex will be covered with brick. It rauui be allowed, indeed, for the credit of the present...they were formerly. The new streets are spacious, regalar, and airy, and the houses generally convenient. The bridge at Blackfriars *) is a noble monument... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1831 - 472 pages
...and if this infatuation continues for half a century, I suppose the whole county of Middlesex will be covered with brick. It must be allowed, indeed, for...Blackfriars is a noble monument of taste and public spirit. I wonder how they stumbled on a work of such magnificence and utility. But, notwithstanding... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...and, if this infatuation continues for half a century, I suppose the whole county of Middlesex will be covered with brick. It must be allowed, indeed, for...Blackfriars is a noble monument of taste and public spirit — I wonder how they stumbled upon a work of such magnificence and utility. BuV notwithstanding... | |
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It must be allowed, indeed, for the credit of the present age, that London and Westminster are much better paved and lighted than they were formerly. The new streets are spacious, regular, and airy ; and the houses generally convenient. The bridge at... 
