 | William D'Avenant - 1873 - 386 pages
...a deformity in seeming over-careful and forced, which we make graceful in being negligent and easy. I have now left your houses, and am passing through...nobles, sitting together, shall stop, and give place to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis of Europe where there is a wonderful dignity... | |
 | William D'Avenant - 1873 - 384 pages
...a deformity in seeming over-careful and forced, which we make graceful in being negligent and easy. I have now left your houses, and am passing through...nobles, sitting together, shall stop, and give place to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis of Europe where there is a wonderful dignity... | |
 | Walter Besant - London (England) - 1903 - 584 pages
...inclose your carriers in summer, and may be held, if taffata, to have lined your grand-sires' skirts. wheels : nor is it safe for a stranger to use them...your nobles, sitting together, shall stop and give way to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis in Europe where there is wonderful... | |
 | Wilfred Whitten - London (England) - 1913 - 422 pages
...invented." Carts had then choked the streets, and Davenant found that a coach-ride was a dubious proposition "till the quarrel be decided whether six of your nobles, sitting together, shall stop and give way to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis in Europe where there is wonderful... | |
 | Walter George Bell - Fires - 1920 - 584 pages
...The stranger in London, in haste to be gone, found it unsafe to use the new public hackney coaches " till the quarrel be decided whether six of your nobles, sitting together, shall stop and give way to as many barrels of beer." was densely overcrowded, even after the Plague had reduced the numbers.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1871 - 614 pages
...for they ore uneasily hang, and so narrow that I took them for Sedans upon wheels : Nor is it safe to use them till the quarrel be decided, whether Six...your Nobles, sitting together, shall stop, and give way to as many Barrels of beer. Your City is the only Metropolis of Europe where there is a wonderful... | |
 | William Hugh Logan - English drama - 1873 - 384 pages
...a deformity in seeming over-careful and forced, which we makegraceful in being negligent and easy. I have now left your houses, and am passing through...nobles, sitting together, shall stop, and give place to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis of Europe where there is a wonderful dignity... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of London - Archaeology - 1824 - 710 pages
...streets, but not in a coach, for they are uneasily hung, and so narrow that I took them for sedani upon wheels. Nor is it safe for a stranger to use...nobles sitting together shall stop and give place to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis in Europe where there is a wonderful dignity... | |
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I have now left your houses, and am passing through your streets, but not in a coach, for they are uneasily hung, and so narrow, that I took them for sedans upon wheels. Nor is it safe for a stranger to use them till the ^quarrel be decided, whether six... 
