A walk from London to Fulham, revised and ed. by T.F.D. Croker1860 - 80 sider |
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Side 51
... Colman the younger died on the 26th of October . 1836 , at the age of 74 , having , about the year 1826 , removed to this house from No : 5 Melina Place , Nos . 22 , 23 , 24 , Brompton Square Kent Road . " He ceased to exist on the 17th ...
... Colman the younger died on the 26th of October . 1836 , at the age of 74 , having , about the year 1826 , removed to this house from No : 5 Melina Place , Nos . 22 , 23 , 24 , Brompton Square Kent Road . " He ceased to exist on the 17th ...
Side 52
... Colman family . But this is an error , as on the 19th of October he appears to have written to Mr. Bunn . The last earthly struggle of George Colman has been thus described : - 66 It has never fallen to my lot to witness in the hour of ...
... Colman family . But this is an error , as on the 19th of October he appears to have written to Mr. Bunn . The last earthly struggle of George Colman has been thus described : - 66 It has never fallen to my lot to witness in the hour of ...
Side 53
... Colman's most admired productions , and several by George Colman the younger , -amounting in all to twenty - six pieces . John Reeve bought largely of the books ; but before two months had elapsed Reeve himself was no more . No. 23 ...
... Colman's most admired productions , and several by George Colman the younger , -amounting in all to twenty - six pieces . John Reeve bought largely of the books ; but before two months had elapsed Reeve himself was no more . No. 23 ...
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... Colman's celebrity as a wit , and inquired of Mrs. Jones who that Mr. Colman was ? Mr. Harris joined them at this moment , and apologised for his friend Colman engrossing so much of the conversation to himself , adding , that he was the ...
... Colman's celebrity as a wit , and inquired of Mrs. Jones who that Mr. Colman was ? Mr. Harris joined them at this moment , and apologised for his friend Colman engrossing so much of the conversation to himself , adding , that he was the ...
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... Colman is ; we must both sleep in the same bed . " The next morning Curran was seized with apoplexy , and continued speechless , though in possession of his senses , till the early part of Tuesday the 14th , when he sunk into lethargy ...
... Colman is ; we must both sleep in the same bed . " The next morning Curran was seized with apoplexy , and continued speechless , though in possession of his senses , till the early part of Tuesday the 14th , when he sunk into lethargy ...
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Admiral afterwards ancient appears artist Bartolozzi Baylis became Bishop of London Bradshaigh Brompton Grove Brompton Row built called Charles Church Cottage Craven Cottage Crescent Crofton Croker curious death died drawing-room Earl England engraved Faulkner feet formerly garden gentleman girth Golden Lion ground Grove House Hammersmith Hans Place honourable Hook Kensington King's Road Knightsbridge Lady Lane late letter literary Little Chelsea Lodge London Lord Lord Shaftesbury Luttrell Lysons Madame main Fulham Road mansion memory mentioned Michael's Place Miss Landon Munster House North End occupied Old Brompton opposite Ozias Humphrey painted parish Park Parson's Green portrait present Pryor's Bank public-house published remarkable residence Riego Robert Lowth Rosamond's Bower Royal says Schiavonetti Shaftesbury side Sir John Sir Walter sketch Sloane Street Square stood Street Theodore Hook Thomas Thomas Crofton Croker tion tree Villa Walham Green walk wall widow William
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Side 184 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Side 29 - Each home-felt joy that life inherits here; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests, to resign; Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away.
Side 112 - Her lips were red; and one was thin Compared to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly) ; But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze, Than on the sun in July.
Side 182 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Side 244 - THE DESCRIPTION OF AN IRISH FEAST. TRANSLATED ALMOST LITERALLY OUT OF THE ORIGINAL IRISH. 1720. O ROURKE'S noble fare Will ne'er be forgot By those who were there, Or those who were not.
Side 184 - It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath no kind of traffic, no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate, nor of politic superiority ; no use of service, of riches, or of poverty ; no contracts, no successions, no...
Side 102 - Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of the most famous Gamesters and celebrated Sharpers in the Reigns of Charles II., James II., William III., and Queen Anne...
Side 205 - ... five inches ; fair wig ; lightish cloth coat, all black besides ; one hand generally in his bosom, the other a cane in it, which he leans upon under the skirts of his coat usually...
Side 206 - ... eye, too often overclouded by mistiness from the head : by chance lively — very lively it will be, if he have hope of seeing a lady whom he loves and honours : his eye always on the ladies...
Side 33 - I see it now, that homely -looking, almost uncomfortable room, fronting the street, and barely furnished with a simple white bed, at the foot of which was a small, old, oblongshaped, sort of dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed the Attic, No.