Memorials of Temple Bar; with some account of Fleet street, and the parishes of st. Dunstan and st. Bride, London

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Сторінка 63 - I remember once being with Goldsmith in Westminster Abbey. While we surveyed the Poets' Corner, I said to him, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis.
Сторінка 134 - When the messenger who carried the last sheet to Millar returned, Johnson asked him, " Well, what did he say?"—" Sir, (answered the messenger) he said, thank GOD I have done with him.
Сторінка 33 - twixt the Court and the City, You'll blend in one mass, prudent, worthless, and witty. If you league cit and lordling, as brother and brother. You'll break order's chain, and they'll war with each other. Like the Great Wall of China, it keeps out the Tartars From making irruptions, where industry barters.
Сторінка 135 - Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.
Сторінка 107 - London from all other cities ; that the coffeehouse was the Londoner's home, and that those who wished to find a gentleman commonly asked, not whether he lived in Fleet Street or Chancery Lane , but whether he frequented the Grecian or the Rainbow.
Сторінка 49 - Pole in the Strand rang a peal with their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination, both the greatness and the suddenness of it. At one end of the street you would think there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side.
Сторінка 116 - Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans, and red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa.
Сторінка 13 - Sir Thomas Gresham's statue, though fallen from its niche in the Royal Exchange, remained entire, when all those of the kings since the Conquest were broken to pieces. Also the standard in...
Сторінка 55 - Fleet street, one of the worst parts of London that I had to pass through, and the cries began to be rather threatening, " Down with him," — ' Now is the time, lads," — " Do for him," — and various others, horrible enough.
Сторінка 55 - All the world knows the story of his malady : all history presents no sadder figure than that of the old man, blind and deprived of reason, wandering through the rooms of his palace, addressing imaginary parliaments, reviewing fancied troops, holding ghostly courts.

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