 | 1826 - 622 pagina’s
...was better pleased with the puppetshow of Whittington, at Southwark fair; where it was "pretty to see how that idle thing do work upon people that see it, and even myself too !" Then to Jacob Hale, the rope-dancer, " where I saw such action as I never saw before." Here he made... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1828 - 486 pagina’s
...did Sir W. Coventry too, who told me that the Duke of York had shown him them. To Southwarke-fair, very dirty, and there saw the puppet-show of Whittington,...work upon people that see it, and even myself too ! And thence to Jacob Hall's dancing on the ropes, where I saw such action as I never saw before, and... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1883 - 402 pagina’s
...prince of old gossips, Pepys, tells us, that he went " to Southwarko fair, and there saw the puppet show of Whittington, which was pretty to see ; and how...work upon people that see it, and even myself, too ! " Honest old Samuel ; but we cannot believe that the puppet show could have worked upon him very... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1848 - 120 pagina’s
...The tale of Whittington was dramatized early in the seventeenth century. According to the Biographia Dramatica, iii, 402, there was entered on the books...which is printed in the Crowne Garland of Goulden Hoses, 1612, and has been reprinted in Evans, ed. 1810, ii, 325, and elsewhere. On the title is a cut... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 210 pagina’s
...The tale of Whittington was dramatized early in the seventeenth century. According to the Biographia Dramatica, iii, 402, there was entered on the books...which is printed in the Crowne Garland of Goulden Hoses, 1612, and has been reprinted in Evans, ed. 1810, ii, 325, and elsewhere. 80. THE LIFE AND DEATH... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 510 pagina’s
...did Sir W. Coventry, too, who told me that the Duke of York had shown him them. To Southwarke-Fair, very dirty, and there saw the puppet-show of Whittington,...work upon people that see it, and even myself too ! And thence to Jacob Hall's dancing on the ropes, where I saw such action as I never saw before, and... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 532 pagina’s
...did Sir W. Coventry, too, who told me that the Duke of York had shown him them. To Southwarke-Fair, very dirty, and there saw the puppet-show of Whittington,...work upon people that see it, and even myself too ! And thence to Jacob Hall's dancing on the ropes, where I saw such action as I never saw before, and... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1855 - 498 pagina’s
...did Sir W. Coventry, too, who told me that the Duke of York had shown him them. To Southwarke-Fair, very dirty, and there saw the puppet-show of Whittington, which was pretty to sec ; and how that idle thing do work upon people that sec it, and even myself too ! And thenee to... | |
 | Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - 1866 - 616 pagina’s
...to see it : " To Southwark Fair, very dirty, and there saw the puppet-show of Whittingtou, which is pretty to see ; and how that idle thing do work upon people that see it, and even myself too." Foote, in his comedy of the " Nabob," makes Sir Matthew Mite account for the legend by explaining the... | |
 | Thomas Frost - 1874 - 434 pagina’s
...evening before at Buckingham Palace. & * Pepys relates that he went, in the same year, "to Southwark Fair, very dirty, and 'there saw the puppet-show of...work upon people that see it, and even myself too ! And thence to Jacob Hall's dancing of the ropes, where I saw such action as I never saw before, and... | |
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Whittington, which was pretty to see ; and how that idle thing do work upon people that see it, and even myself too ! And thence to Jacob Hall's dancing on the ropes, where I saw such action as I never saw before, and mightily worth seeing ; and here... 
