 | 1908 - 446 pages
...and Whistle, the George and Vulture, the Bolt in Tun, the Bear and Harrow, the Elephant and Castle. Our streets are filled with Blue Boars, Black Swans,...Red Lions, not to mention Flying Pigs and Hogs in Armour.' Fraser"s Magazine, cited by Brand, Pop. Antiq. 2. 357. ' Since pictorial or carved signs have... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1908 - 482 pages
...and Whistle, the George and Vulture, the Bolt in Tun, the Bear and Harrow, the Elephant and Castle. Our streets are filled with Blue Boars, Black Swans,...Red Lions, not to mention Flying Pigs and Hogs in Armour.' Eraser's Magazine, cited by Brand, Pop. Antiq. 2. 367. ' Since pictorial or carved signs have... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1909 - 392 pages
...dreaded men." Addison devotes one of his essays in the Spectator to London street signs, and says : " 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." The perversion... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis - Advertising - 1909 - 334 pages
...different kinds of itinerant tradesmen; streets overhung with hundreds of creaking signs representing, " 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 Desarts of Africk." '(2) On foot... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Names, Personal - 1910 - 438 pages
...only the Frying-pan, has become subsequently a surname. In the Spectator, No. 28, 1711, is this : " 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 Desarts of Africk. . . . The Bell... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1922 - 488 pages
...both sides by an endless succession of gay sign-boards, which exhibited an almost infinite variety of Blue Boars, Black Swans, and Red Lions, not to mention Flying Pigs, Hogs in Armour, and many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa ; while... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - Literary landmarks - 1923 - 304 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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Farrar - Bedford (England) - 1926 - 420 pages
...not tell him ! 11. Thus Addison, in the " Spectator " of April 2, 1711 (Vol. I, No. 28), writes : " 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 Africk. I would enjoin... | |
 | James George Frazer - English essays - 1927 - 486 pages
...both sides by an endless succession of gay signboards, which exhibited an almost infinite variety of Blue Boars, Black Swans, and Red Lions, not to mention Flying Pigs, Hogs in Armour, and many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa ; while... | |
 | American essays - 1909 - 872 pages
...different kinds of itinerant tradesmen; streets overhung with hundreds of creaking signs representing " 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 Desarts of Africk." On foot if... | |
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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. 
