Literary Landmarks of LondonHarper & Brothers, 1892 - 367 من الصفحات |
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... probably resided in the house now [ 1816 ] occupied vol . v . by Mr. Maxwell as a boarding - school , a spacious mansion , built in that style of architecture which prevailed at the commencement of the reign of James I. Bacon died at ...
... probably resided in the house now [ 1816 ] occupied vol . v . by Mr. Maxwell as a boarding - school , a spacious mansion , built in that style of architecture which prevailed at the commencement of the reign of James I. Bacon died at ...
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... probably unchanged . He was christened in St. Marylebone Church , on the Marylebone Road near the High Street , when he was about six weeks old ; but Mrs. Byron took her son to Scotland in his infancy , and he did not again see London ...
... probably unchanged . He was christened in St. Marylebone Church , on the Marylebone Road near the High Street , when he was about six weeks old ; but Mrs. Byron took her son to Scotland in his infancy , and he did not again see London ...
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... probably the best we have ever lived in , a right old strong , roomy brick house built nearly one hundred and fifty years ago [ written in 1834 ] , and likely to see three races of these modern fashionables fall before it comes down ...
... probably the best we have ever lived in , a right old strong , roomy brick house built nearly one hundred and fifty years ago [ written in 1834 ] , and likely to see three races of these modern fashionables fall before it comes down ...
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... probably at the corner of this lane , in the house just mentioned . Rambles in London , The Church of St. Mary Aldermary , destroyed by the Great Fire , was rebuilt by Wren , and stands in Watling Street , near Bow Lane . Kerion Lane ...
... probably at the corner of this lane , in the house just mentioned . Rambles in London , The Church of St. Mary Aldermary , destroyed by the Great Fire , was rebuilt by Wren , and stands in Watling Street , near Bow Lane . Kerion Lane ...
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... probably at the junction of the parishes of St. Botolph Aldgate and St. Katherine Cree , marked on the house numbered 2 Aldgate in 1885 . Tradition also says that Chaucer wrote his ' Testament of Love ' in the Tower , that he spent some ...
... probably at the junction of the parishes of St. Botolph Aldgate and St. Katherine Cree , marked on the house numbered 2 Aldgate in 1885 . Tradition also says that Chaucer wrote his ' Testament of Love ' in the Tower , that he spent some ...
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Abbey Addison afterwards Bloomsbury Square born Boswell's brick building built buried Byron called century chap Chapel Charles Charles Lamb Charter House Chaucer Chelsea Church of St Churchyard Cibber Clerkenwell Club Coffee House Coleridge corner cottage Court Covent Garden death Diary Dickens died dined door Dryden erected father Fleet Street frequented friends Garrick Goldsmith grave Gray's Inn Green Hampstead Head Hill Holborn Inner Temple Islington James's Street John Johnson Keats Kensington known Lady Lamb Lane later LAURENCE HUTTON letter literary lived lodgings London Lord Lord Byron mansion Mary Middle Temple Milton occupied opposite Pall Mall parish Park Paul's Pepys Piccadilly Place poet Pope rebuilt remained residence Road Russell Street says Shakspere Soho south side Southwark Square standing in 1885 stood tablet Tavern Thackeray Thames Theatre Thomas took town Westminster Westminster Abbey Westminster School William wrote Yard
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الصفحة 108 - love as my own soul : if you survive me, as you certainly will, if a stone shall mark the place of my grave, see these words put upon it : — "Life is a jest and all things show it : I thought so once, and now I know it,
الصفحة 116 - sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money ; and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill. In 1764 Johnson found Goldsmith in a humble set of chambers at No. 2 Garden Court, Middle Temple, near the New Library and behind Fountain Court.
الصفحة 172 - performances. Shakspere with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. As Fuller was
الصفحة 116 - I accordingly went to him as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass
الصفحة 157 - towards us, he announced his awful approach to me somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost, ' Look, my lord, it comes ! ' 1 found that I had a very perfect idea of Johnson's figure, from a
الصفحة 76 - Whereas, Daniel De Foe, alias De Fooe, is charged with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet entitled ' The Shortest Way with the Dissenters.' He is a middle-sized spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark brown colored hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked
الصفحة 7 - while I seem attentive to nothing but the ' Postman,' overhear the conversation of every table in the room. I appear on Sunday nights at the St. James's Coffee House, and sometimes join the committee of politics in the inner room as one who comes there to hear and improve.
الصفحة 116 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith, that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as
الصفحة 119 - passed to-day where you and I dined; I ask your pardon.' Goldsmith answered placidly, ' It must be much from yon, sir, that I take ill ; ' and so at once the difference was over, and they were on as easy terms as ever, and Goldsmith rattled away as usual.
الصفحة 118 - died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed no less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ?