Once Upon a Time, כרך 2J. Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 22
עמוד 32
... matter in what district , and it is ten to one you will hear the sounds either of a fiddle or guitar , or see the in- struments hanging up somewhere . " The barbers or their apprentices were the performers : " If idle , they pass their ...
... matter in what district , and it is ten to one you will hear the sounds either of a fiddle or guitar , or see the in- struments hanging up somewhere . " The barbers or their apprentices were the performers : " If idle , they pass their ...
עמוד 45
... matter of riot and arms . Fleetwood , the master of Drury Lane , has omitted nothing to support them , as they supported his house . About ten days ago he let into the pit great numbers of Bear Garden bruisers ( that is the term ) , to ...
... matter of riot and arms . Fleetwood , the master of Drury Lane , has omitted nothing to support them , as they supported his house . About ten days ago he let into the pit great numbers of Bear Garden bruisers ( that is the term ) , to ...
עמוד 46
... matter still farther in 1751 , by hiring Drury Lane to act a play themselves . " The rage was so great to see this performance , that the House of Commons literally adjourned at three o'clock on purpose . " ↑ C Vauxhall and Ranelagh ...
... matter still farther in 1751 , by hiring Drury Lane to act a play themselves . " The rage was so great to see this performance , that the House of Commons literally adjourned at three o'clock on purpose . " ↑ C Vauxhall and Ranelagh ...
עמוד 56
... matters somewhat equal . The idea from which we cannot escape , when we trace the history of fashion in the middle of the last century , is , that the prevailing tone indicated something like a general moral intoxication . A succession ...
... matters somewhat equal . The idea from which we cannot escape , when we trace the history of fashion in the middle of the last century , is , that the prevailing tone indicated something like a general moral intoxication . A succession ...
עמוד 74
... matter , child , it will do for news into the country , next post . " + Horace Walpole might well have compounded for a little of the pert criticism of the reviews of his day , to be ex- empt from the flood of opinion which now floats ...
... matter , child , it will do for news into the country , next post . " + Horace Walpole might well have compounded for a little of the pert criticism of the reviews of his day , to be ex- empt from the flood of opinion which now floats ...
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amongst ancient Bekfudi BISHOP black ditch bouts-rimés bull-bait called Castle century CHARLES cheap Church coach Court Crabbe eggs England Essay ETON MONTEM Fanny Fanny Burney fashion Fcap Fourth Edition French George George's Chapel gone happy heard Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly History Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hundred India-rubber JOHN John's Gate Johnson King labour Lady letter literary lived London look Lord LORD MAHON Memoirs Miss Burney Montem morning never night Notes obsolete painted palace parish passed Plates poet poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds Queen recollect ROBERT SOUTHEY says scene Second Edition Shakspere shilling Silent Woman society Strawberry Hill streets talk taste tell things Third Edition tion town Translated Vathek Vols Voltaire walk wall Walpole to Mann Walpole's WASHINGTON IRVING whist Windsor Woodcuts writing young
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עמוד 1 - DAVY'S (SiR HUMPHRY) Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philosopher. Fifth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. — — Salmonia ; or, Days of Fly Fishing. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Fourth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. DENNIS' (GEORGE) Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; or, the extant Local Remains of Etruscan Art.
עמוד 136 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
עמוד 137 - Anon, a Figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit ; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go ; He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries Fate and Physic in his eye...
עמוד 85 - MDCCLXV. .LHE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
עמוד 79 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
עמוד 14 - Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within.
עמוד 54 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
עמוד 36 - Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — " She heard, and drove him to th
עמוד 293 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...