London: Being a Comprehensive Survey of the History, Tradition & Historical Associations of Buildings & Monuments, Arranged Under Streets in Alphabetical OrderJ. M. Dent & sons Limited, 1927 - 887 sivua |
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Abbey actor afterwards artist became Ben Jonson Bishop born Bridge building built buried chambers chapel Charles Charles Dickens Charles II Charles Lamb church churchyard CLERKENWELL Club Coffee-House corner Court Covent Garden death demolished Dickens died dramatist Drury Lane Duke Earl east side Edward eighteenth century Elizabeth England famous father Fire Fleet Street formerly frequently Gate George George III Gordon riots Gray's Inn Hall HAMPSTEAD Henry Henry VIII HIGH STREET Hill Hogarth Holborn Horace Walpole Inner Temple James James's Johnson King King's known Lady later lived located lodged London Lord Chancellor mansion married Mary mentions novelist occupied original painter Palace Park Paul's Pepys Piccadilly poet present Prince prison published Queen rebuilt residence Richard ROAD Robert Roman Royal Samuel scene Sir John Sir Thomas Sir William Square stood Strand Tavern Temple Thackeray Thames Theatre Tower Westminster wife wrote
Suositut otteet
Sivu vii - London consists." —I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people. They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change; a...
Sivu vii - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists."— I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people.
Sivu xix - The houses were not numbered. There would indeed have been little advantage in numbering them; for of the coachmen, chairmen, porters, and errand boys of London, a very small proportion could read. It was necessary to use marks which the most ignorant could understand. The shops were therefore distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. The walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel lay through an endless succession of saracens...
Sivu 451 - A loose, slack, not well-dressed youth met Mr. and myself in a lane near Highgate. knew him, and spoke. It was Keats. He was introduced to me, and stayed a minute or so. After he had left us a little way, he came back, and said: " Let me carry away the memory, Coleridge, of having pressed your hand!" — "There is death in that hand," I said to , when Keats was gone ; yet this was, I believe, before the consumption showed itself distinctly.
Sivu 237 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
Sivu xx - Peacock,' where you shall see at night two candles burning within one of the chambers before the balcony ; and a lanthorn with a candle in it upon the balcony : where he may be spoke withal alone, from 8 in the morning till 10 at night.
Sivu 371 - ... into a dark letterbox, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street — appeared in all the glory of print; on which occasion, by-the-bye, — how well I recollect it!
Sivu 409 - Worthies,' with his usual amusing, but often expressive quaintness, " let not them blush that have, but those that have not, a lawful calling. He helped in the building of the new structure of Lincoln's Inn, when, having a trowel in his hand, he had a book in his pocket.
Sivu 476 - ... two of the Judges, the Lord Mayor, and several of the jury, and others, to the number of sixty persons and upwards," died in the spring of 1750 of the gaol distemper, communicated from Newgate to the Sessions House adjoining.
Sivu xv - very foul, and full of pits and sloughs, very perilous and noyous, as well for the king's subjects on horseback as on foot, and with carriages.