 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 264 pages
...it was only repealed by the 7th and 8th Geo. IV., Chap. 27." — WILLS. P. 104, 1. 20. sign-post. " Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans,...red lions ; not to mention flying pigs and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Afric. " I would forbid... | |
 | 1899 - 972 pages
...Under what circumstances does Addison consider " there may be something very useful in Clubs " 1 3. " Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans, and red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, <fcc." Explain what is here referred to, and give the Spectator's remedies. 4. The little boy . . .... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1900 - 542 pages
...sign-boards, in The Spectator of April a, 1710. He says, advocating a censorship of sign-boards : — " Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans,...red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. My first task... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 418 pages
...Hogarth's lively B 2 perspective of Cheapside, or read of it in a hundred contemporary books which paint the manners of that age. Our dear old Spectator looks...innumerable signs, and describes them with his charming humour. " Our streets are filled with Blue Boars, Black Swans, and Eed Lions, not to mention Flying... | |
 | Arthur Grant - Great Britain - 1903 - 300 pages
...Addison's delightful essay in the earlier Spectators on the sign - posts of London, in which he says that ' our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans,...red lions, not to mention flying pigs and hogs in armour.' All anglers will recollect how frequently Walton refers to the Hertfordshire inns : the '... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1903 - 266 pages
...for it was only repealed by the 7th and 8th Geo. IV., Chap. 27." — WILLS. P. 104, 1. 20. sign-post. "Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans,...red lions ; not to mention flying pigs and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Afric. " I would forbid... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 642 pages
...Hogarth's lively perspective of Cheapside, or read of it in a hundred contemporary books which paint the manners of that age. Our dear old Spectator looks...innumerable signs, and describes them with his charming humour. " Our streets are filled with Blue Boars, Black Swans, and Red Lions, not to mention Flying... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 pages
...themselves out to the eye, and endeavouring to become visible. Our streets are filled with blue boars, 5 black swans, and red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. Strange ! that... | |
 | English literature - 1906 - 578 pages
...themselves out to the eye, and endeavouring to become visible. Our streets are filled with blue boars, back swans, and red lions; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Afric. Strange! that... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1907 - 512 pages
...including, very likely, that of April 2, 1710, in which he thus advocates a censorship of signboards : — " Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans...red lions; not to mention flying pigs and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. My first task,... | |
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Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans, and red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. 
