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... respecting the neighbourhood of Knights- bridge the reader may be referred to a recently published work The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge , with notices of its immediate neighbourhood , " by the late Henry George Davis ...
... respecting the neighbourhood of Knights- bridge the reader may be referred to a recently published work The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge , with notices of its immediate neighbourhood , " by the late Henry George Davis ...
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... respecting his funeral . He directed his library of books and all his pictures to be sold by auction , and the money arising therefrom , together with what money he might have at his bankers or in his strong box , he be- queathed to his ...
... respecting his funeral . He directed his library of books and all his pictures to be sold by auction , and the money arising therefrom , together with what money he might have at his bankers or in his strong box , he be- queathed to his ...
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... respecting the interior of Murphy's apartment is , that in it " there was a portrait of Dunning ( Lord Ashburton ) , a very striking likeness , painted in crayons by Ozias Humphrey . " Humphrey , who was portrait - painter in crayons to ...
... respecting the interior of Murphy's apartment is , that in it " there was a portrait of Dunning ( Lord Ashburton ) , a very striking likeness , painted in crayons by Ozias Humphrey . " Humphrey , who was portrait - painter in crayons to ...
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... respecting the pains and pleasures of authorship , L. E. L. once said , " I would give this moment all the fame of what I have written , or ever shall write , for one roar of applause from a crowded house , such as you must have heard a ...
... respecting the pains and pleasures of authorship , L. E. L. once said , " I would give this moment all the fame of what I have written , or ever shall write , for one roar of applause from a crowded house , such as you must have heard a ...
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... respecting his country corre- sponded with his public acts and professions in defence of its liberties . A few yards beyond the turn down to Seymour Place , on the opposite side of the road , stood , until pulled down in 1856 , to make ...
... respecting his country corre- sponded with his public acts and professions in defence of its liberties . A few yards beyond the turn down to Seymour Place , on the opposite side of the road , stood , until pulled down in 1856 , to make ...
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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 Fulham Fields 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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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 184 - It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath no kinde of traffike, no knowledge of Letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate...
Page 205 - Short ; rather plump than emaciated, notwithstanding his complaints ; about five foot 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, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a support, when attacked by sudden tremors or...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 34 - In this attic did the muse of LEL dream of and describe music, moonlight, and roses, and "apostrophise loves, memories, hopes, and fears," with how much ultimate appetite for invention or sympathy may be judged from her declaration that, " there is one conclusion at which I have arrived, that a horse in a mill has an easier life than an author. I am fairly fagged out of my life.
Page 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.
Page 102 - This curious collection was made by Narcissus Luttrell, Esq., under whose name the Editor usually quotes it The industrious collector seems to have bought every poetical tract, of whatever merit, which was hawked through the streets in his time, marking carefully the price and date of the purchase. His collection contains the earliest editions of many of our most excellent poems, bound up, according to the order of time, with the lowest trash of Grub Street. It was dispersed on Mr. Luttrell's death...