The Little World of London: Or, Pictures in Little of London LifeA. Hall, Virtue and Company, 1857 - 408 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 49
Pagina 5
... ladies and faithful squires canter- ing and careering along Rotten Row - and the whole im- posing assemblage of England's nobility drawn out for his special amusement . What are his cogitations upon the scene we do not pretend to know ...
... ladies and faithful squires canter- ing and careering along Rotten Row - and the whole im- posing assemblage of England's nobility drawn out for his special amusement . What are his cogitations upon the scene we do not pretend to know ...
Pagina 7
... ladies and gentlemen ? " he asks . “ Did you say eggs ? " and incontinently the passage of the handkerchief through his clenched hand is stopped by three or four eggs in succession , which are carefully taken out and laid on the drum ...
... ladies and gentlemen ? " he asks . “ Did you say eggs ? " and incontinently the passage of the handkerchief through his clenched hand is stopped by three or four eggs in succession , which are carefully taken out and laid on the drum ...
Pagina 15
... ladies that ought to have been married years ago . I could tell a tale almost equally particular with regard to nearly every one of the twelve gentlemen whom I pick up and drop down every morning , though they little think of it ; and I ...
... ladies that ought to have been married years ago . I could tell a tale almost equally particular with regard to nearly every one of the twelve gentlemen whom I pick up and drop down every morning , though they little think of it ; and I ...
Pagina 16
... ladies , when they are mammas , are fond of taking the children a ride in the ' bus . Sometimes I get a whole family of children ; the other night I had eleven young mothers , each with a baby in arms , and only one gentleman - twenty ...
... ladies , when they are mammas , are fond of taking the children a ride in the ' bus . Sometimes I get a whole family of children ; the other night I had eleven young mothers , each with a baby in arms , and only one gentleman - twenty ...
Pagina 17
... ladies that get into my ' bus , do so because they can't help themselves , and must go the distance .. Politeness , I have observed , like many other things that are more for ornament than use , is very much damaged by moisture civility ...
... ladies that get into my ' bus , do so because they can't help themselves , and must go the distance .. Politeness , I have observed , like many other things that are more for ornament than use , is very much damaged by moisture civility ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Little World of London: Or, Pictures in Little of London Life Charles Manby Smith Volledige weergave - 1857 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
appear beating the bounds bell beneath Betty BOOK OF REVELATION bound catalogue Cheapside cloth coat colours comes couple course Crocodile Court crowd Crown Court Church Dials press dinner door Engravings face Fcap fiddles followed Frontispiece full gilt garden gentleman gilt edges guineas half hand head hour hundred Illustrations Jack Frost JOHN CUMMING labour ladies lane light living London look metropolis Midvale morning morocco mother never night o'clock once painted passed penny perhaps picture poor Post 8vo Precatory present river round rush Sapper scene Schnapps Seven Dials shillings shops side stand Strawberry Street Sunday super-royal 8vo Terrace things thirty thousand tion trade travelling turn vanished voice walk week whole wigs window Woodcuts young
Populaire passages
Pagina 349 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
Pagina 407 - NOT in the solitude Alone may man commune with Heaven, or see, Only in savage wood And sunny vale, the present Deity ; Or only hear his voice Where the winds whisper and the waves rejoice. Even here do I behold Thy steps, Almighty ! — here, amidst the crowd Through the great city rolled, With everlasting murmur deep and loud — Choking the ways that wind 'Mongst the proud piles, the work of human kind.
Pagina 15 - METEYARD'S (ELIZA) DOCTOR'S LITTLE DAUGHTER. The Story of a Child's Life amidst the Woods and Hills. With numerous Illustrations by HARVEY. Foolscap, cloth, gilt edges, 7s.
Pagina 19 - Word from the Greek, Latin, Saxon, German, Teutonic, Dutch, French, Spanish, and other Languages ; with their present Acceptation and Pronunciation.
Pagina 379 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Pagina 9 - BARTLETT (WH),— FOOTSTEPS OF OUR LORD AND HIS APOSTLES, in Syria, Greece, and Italy. A succession of Visits to the Scenes of New Testament Narrative. With Twenty-three Steel Engravings, and several Woodcuts. Third Edition, super-royal 8vo. cloth, gilt edges, 124.; morocco elegant, 21s. • FORTY DAYS IN THE DESERT...
Pagina 9 - Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the ISRAELITES: or, a Journey from Cairo to Mount Sinai and Petra.
Pagina 17 - OUR FATHER ; A MANUAL OF FAMILY PRAYERS for General and Special Occasions, with Short Prayers for Spare Minutes, and Passages for Reflection.
Pagina 24 - THE CELT, THE ROMAN, AND THE SAXON; a History of the Early Inhabitants of Britain down to the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Illustrated by the Ancient Remains brought to light by Recent Research. By Thomas Wright, MA, FSA, &c., &c.
Pagina 6 - Edition. Fcap. cloth, gilt edges, 2s. IS CHRISTIANITY FROM GOD? A Manual of Christian Evidences for Scripture Readers. Sunday School Teachers, City Missionaries, and Young Persons. Tenth Edition. Fcap. 3s. cloth. JOSEPH THE LAST OF THE PATRIARCHS. Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 6*.