A walk from London to Fulham, revised and ed. by T.F.D. Croker1860 - 80 sider |
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... interesting associations ; more old houses have been pulled down , new ones built up , and great alterations and improvements have taken place not con- templated a few years ago . It would be impossible , for example , that any one who ...
... interesting associations ; more old houses have been pulled down , new ones built up , and great alterations and improvements have taken place not con- templated a few years ago . It would be impossible , for example , that any one who ...
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... following pages will be an interesting and acceptable record of many places no longer in existence , that they are submitted to the public in their present shape by T. F. DILLON CROKER . ΤΟ THOMAS WRIGHT , Esq . , M.A. , F.S.A. vi NOTE .
... following pages will be an interesting and acceptable record of many places no longer in existence , that they are submitted to the public in their present shape by T. F. DILLON CROKER . ΤΟ THOMAS WRIGHT , Esq . , M.A. , F.S.A. vi NOTE .
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... interesting to be repeated . He first mentions " the writing and pre- paring for the Adelphi Theatre a Christmas pantomime from the renowned adventures of Daniel O'Rourke , two or three meetings with Sir Walter Scott , some anxious ...
... interesting to be repeated . He first mentions " the writing and pre- paring for the Adelphi Theatre a Christmas pantomime from the renowned adventures of Daniel O'Rourke , two or three meetings with Sir Walter Scott , some anxious ...
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... interesting it becomes . In some measure , this may be accounted for by studious habits ; a tolerable memory , apt to indulge in recollections of the past , and to cherish rather than despise , when not impertinent , local gossip ...
... interesting it becomes . In some measure , this may be accounted for by studious habits ; a tolerable memory , apt to indulge in recollections of the past , and to cherish rather than despise , when not impertinent , local gossip ...
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... interesting absence of mind . She united in her own person all the sins of forgetfulness of all the young ladies ; mislaid her handkerchief , her shawl , her gloves , her work , her music , her drawing , her scissors , her keys ; would ...
... interesting absence of mind . She united in her own person all the sins of forgetfulness of all the young ladies ; mislaid her handkerchief , her shawl , her gloves , her work , her music , her drawing , her scissors , her keys ; would ...
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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.