Eighteenth Century Vignettes: Second seriesChatto & Windus, 1894 - 300 pagina's |
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Second series Austin Dobson. CONTENTS . THE JOURNAL TO STELLA . 6 AT TULLY'S HEAD ' . RICHARDSON AT HOME PAGE I 22 ' LITTLE ROUBILLAC ' 50 77 NIVERNAIS IN ENGLAND · 100 THE TOPOGRAPHY OF HUMPHRY CLINKER ' • 131 THE PRISONERS ' CHAPLAIN ...
Second series Austin Dobson. CONTENTS . THE JOURNAL TO STELLA . 6 AT TULLY'S HEAD ' . RICHARDSON AT HOME PAGE I 22 ' LITTLE ROUBILLAC ' 50 77 NIVERNAIS IN ENGLAND · 100 THE TOPOGRAPHY OF HUMPHRY CLINKER ' • 131 THE PRISONERS ' CHAPLAIN ...
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... head ) with which , after addressing them in laboriously legible fashion To Mrs. Dingley , at Mr. Curry's House , over against the Ram in Capel Street , Dublin , Ireland , ' Swift was wont to fasten up his periodical despatches ...
... head ) with which , after addressing them in laboriously legible fashion To Mrs. Dingley , at Mr. Curry's House , over against the Ram in Capel Street , Dublin , Ireland , ' Swift was wont to fasten up his periodical despatches ...
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... much more satisfactory , and so markedly to Esther Johnson's advantage as to suggest the further reproduction of the original in some separate and accessible form . AT TULLY'S HEAD . THE ' HE ' Tully's Head The Journal to Stella . 21.
... much more satisfactory , and so markedly to Esther Johnson's advantage as to suggest the further reproduction of the original in some separate and accessible form . AT TULLY'S HEAD . THE ' HE ' Tully's Head The Journal to Stella . 21.
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Second series Austin Dobson. AT TULLY'S HEAD . THE ' HE ' Tully's Head ' stood on the north side of Pall Mall . In those days what is now the Via Sacra of Clubland was little more than an un- paved roadway from St. James's Palace to ...
Second series Austin Dobson. AT TULLY'S HEAD . THE ' HE ' Tully's Head ' stood on the north side of Pall Mall . In those days what is now the Via Sacra of Clubland was little more than an un- paved roadway from St. James's Palace to ...
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... Head ' ( the shop , be it remembered , was not on that ' sweet shady side of Pall Mall ' afterwards so melodiously sung by Captain Charles Morris of the Life Guards ) , you would at once have found yourself on familiar ground . You ...
... Head ' ( the shop , be it remembered , was not on that ' sweet shady side of Pall Mall ' afterwards so melodiously sung by Captain Charles Morris of the Life Guards ) , you would at once have found yourself on familiar ground . You ...
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Pagina 272 - If you had never seen it I would make you a most pompous description of it, and tell you how the floor is all of beaten princes—that you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland.
Pagina 25 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Pagina 19 - This day, being Sunday, January 28, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with.
Pagina 71 - May the hatred of all the young, beautiful, and virtuous for ever be your portion, and may your eyes never behold anything but age and deformity ! May you meet with applause only from envious old maids, surly bachelors, and tyrannical parents; may you be doomed to the company of such ! and after death may their ugly souls haunt you ! " Now make Lovelace and Clarissa unhappy if you dare...
Pagina 158 - ... habitable islands, some of them stocked with deer, and all of them covered with wood; containing immense quantities of delicious fish, salmon, pike, trout, perch, flounders, eels, and powans, the last a delicate kind of fresh-water herring peculiar to this lake; and finally communicating with the sea, by sending off the Leven, through which all those species (except the powan) make their exit and entrance occasionally?
Pagina 92 - The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
Pagina 143 - London is literally new to me ; new in its streets, houses, and even in its situation : as the Irishman said, " London is now gone out of town." What I left open fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with. streets, and squares, and palaces, and churches. I am credibly informed, that, in the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses have been built in one quarter of Westminster, exclusive of what is daily added to other parts of this unwieldy metropolis.
Pagina 277 - In strains more exalted the salt-box shall join, And clattering and battering and clapping combine ; With a rap and a tap, while the hollow side sounds. Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds '." . I mentioned the periodical paper called
Pagina 145 - Every clerk, apprentice, and even waiter of a tavern or coffee-house, maintains a gelding by himself, or in partnership, and assumes the air and apparel of a petitmaitre. The gayest places of public entertainment are filled with fashionable figures, which, upon inquiry, will be found to be journeymen-tailors, serving-men, and abigails, disguised like their betters.