 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 850 pages
...great majority of the houses, indeed, have since that time, been wholly, or in great part, rebuilt. If the most fashionable parts of the capital could...appearance, and poisoned by their noisome atmosphere. In Coven t Garden a filthy and noisy market was held close to the dwellings of the great. Fruit women... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...most fashionable parts of the capital could he placed hefore us, such as they then were, we should he disgusted by their squalid appearance, and poisoned...market was held close to the dwellings of the great. Fruit-women screamed, carters fought, cabhage-stalks and rotten apples accumulated in heaps at the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 664 pages
...great majority of the houses, indeed, have since that time been wholly, or in great part, rebuilt. If the most fashionable parts of the capital could...us, such as they then were, we should be disgusted with their squalid appearance, and poisoned by their noisome atmosphere. In Covent Garden a filthy... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 292 pages
...eould be plaeed before us, sueh as they then were, we should be disgusted by their squalid appearanee, and poisoned by their noisome atmosphere. In Covent Garden, a filthy and noisy market was held elose to the dwellings of the great. Fruit women sereamed, earters fought, eabbage stalks and rotten... | |
 | 1849 - 296 pages
...be plaeed before us, sueh as they then were, we should be disgusted Ъу their squalid appearanee, and poisoned by their noisome atmosphere. In Covent Garden, a filthy and noisy market was held eiose to the dwellings of the great. Fruit women sereamed, earters fought, eabbage stalks and rotten... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...undulating grassy hills, dotted with trees, runs a clear brook, sedgy here and rocky there, whose speckled * disgusted by their squalid appearance, and poisoned...the great. Fruit' women screamed, carters fought, cabbage-stalks and rotten ' apples accumulated in heaps at the thresholds of the Countess ' of Berkshire... | |
 | London - London (England) - 1851 - 200 pages
...present. The great majority of the houses, indeed, have since that time been wholly or in part rebuilt. If the most fashionable parts of the capital could...us, such as they then were, we should be disgusted with their squalid appearance, and poisoned by their noisome atmosphere. In Convent Garden a filthy... | |
 | 1852 - 440 pages
...year.2 The condition of London, about this period, has been thus described by an eloquent historian.] " If the most fashionable parts of the capital could be placed before us, such as they were in the reign of Charles II., we should be disgusted with their squalid appearance, and poisoned... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1861 - 1052 pages
...great majority of the houses, indeed, have since that time been wholly, or in great part, rebuilt. If the most fashionable parts of the capital could...us, such as they then were, we should be disgusted with their squalid appearance, and poisoned by their noisome atmosphere. * Evelyn's Diary, Oct. 10,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1864 - 816 pages
...great majority of the houses, indeed, have, since that time, been wholly, or in great part, rebuilt. If the most fashionable parts of the capital could...appearance, and poisoned by their noisome atmosphere. In Corent Garden a filthy and noisy market was held close to the dwellings of the great. Fruit women screamed,... | |
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We should greatly err if we were to suppose that any of the streets and squares then bore the same aspect as at present. The great majority of the houses, indeed, have, since that time, been wholly, or in great part, rebuilt. If the most fashionable parts... 
