 | charles black - 1850 - 630 sivua
...was held close to the dwellings of the great. Fruit' women screamed, carters fought, cabbage-stalks and rotten ' apples accumulated in heaps at the thresholds...St. James's ' Square was a receptacle for all the oflfal and cinders, for all the trout show the purity of its waters. The passing traveller, or indolent... | |
 | 1863 - 300 sivua
...great mansions of the west-end aristocracy began to be planted. St. James's Square, Lord Macaulay adds, was a receptacle for all the offal and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster, and Ч was not until these nuisances had lasted through a whole generation that the inhabitants applied... | |
 | Sir James David Marwick - 1865 - 464 sivua
...heaps at the thresholds of the Countess of Berkshire and of the Bishop of Durham. . . . Saint James' Square was a receptacle for all the offal and cinders,...for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster. . . . When such was the state of the region inhabited by the most luxurious portion of society, we... | |
 | Luke Tyerman - 1866 - 522 sivua
...congregated every evening to hear mountebanks harangue, to see bears dance, and to set dogs at oxen. St James's Square was a receptacle for all the offal and cinders, and for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster. The pavement of London was detestable, and... | |
 | James Grant - 1886 - 392 sivua
...heated with antagonism to the then Government. About a hundred years before that, Macaulay tells us that St. James's Square ' was a receptacle for all the offal and cinders, and all the dead cats and dogs, of Westminster. At one time a cudgel-player kept his ring there. At... | |
 | Maddock's (Thomas) Sons Company, Trenton - 1910 - 280 sivua
...accumulated in heaps at the thresholds of the Countess of Berkshire and of the Bishop of Durham. Saint James Square was a receptacle for all the offal and cinders,...for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster. The pavement was detestable. The drainage was so bad that in rainy weather the gutters soon became... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 sivua
...square. Then at length palisades were set up, and a pleasant garden laid out. Saint James's Square8 company Westminster.0 At one time a cudgel player"> kept the ring there. At another time an impudent squatter... | |
 | Entomological Society of Washington - 1922 - 290 sivua
...which inevitably resulted. According to Macaulay, even as late as 1685, "St. James's square was the receptacle for all the offal and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster,"1 while Swift (1710) in "A Description of a City Shower," draws a similar and even less... | |
 | Robert Fishman - 2008 - 274 sivua
...royal palace — they could not keep out the city around them. St. James's Square, Macaulay reports, "was a receptacle for all the offal and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster."11 It was not until the 1720s and the 1730s that the great aristocratic estates mastered... | |
 | Peter C. Mancall - 2008 - 390 sivua
...in the late seventeenth century, according to Thomas Babington Macaulay, used St. James's Square as "a receptacle for all the offal and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster"; see his History of England, ed. CH Firth, 6 vols. (London, 1913), 1:350. 9. Porter, London, 42, 64;... | |
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Square was a receptacle for all the offal and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster. At one time, a cudgel player kept the ring there; at another time, an impudent squatter settled himself there, and built a shed for rubbish under... 