Covent Garden: Its Romance and HistorySimpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company ld., 1913 - 269 стор. |
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actor afterwards appears Bagnio became Bedford House Bow Street Broad Court building built buried called Cecil celebrated Charing Cross Charles Club coffee-house corner costermonger Covent Garden Market COVENT GARDEN THEATRE crowd described Dickens died door Drury Lane Theatre Dryden Duke Earl of Bedford entrance erected Exeter House fire Floral Hall friends fruit Garrick Garrick Street gentleman ground growers Hart Street Horace Walpole Hotel Hummums inhabited Inigo Jones James Street John Kemble King Street King's Kneller known Lady latter lived London Long Acre Macklin Maiden Lane Martin's Messrs metropolis named neighbour neighbourhood occupied Opera original parish of St PAUL'S CHURCH Pepys Piazza poet Porson premises present public-house pudding Queen R. H. Barham rebuilt resided Rose Street Royal Russell Street says scene situated sold south side stood Strand Strype Tatler tavern Tavistock tenants Timbs to-day town wall Walpole west end west side Westminster William Wills's
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Сторінка 254 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn I saw good strawberries in your garden there; I do beseech you send for some of them. B. OF ELY: Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart. ("Richard III.,
Сторінка 40 - needy wretch, was still alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown ; He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Сторінка 62 - To bow to the Laureate and to hear his opinion of Racine's last tragedy, or of Bossu's treatise on Epic Poetry, was thought a privilege. A pinch from his snuff-box was an honour sufficient to turn the head of a young enthusiast.
Сторінка 64 - by my auxiliary. When I had called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." "The paper," he says elsewhere, " was advanced indeed. It was raised to a greater thing than I intended it
Сторінка 62 - There were Earls in stars and garters, clergymen in cassocks and bands, pert Templars, sheepish lads from the Universities, translators and index-makers in ragged coats of frieze. The great press was to get near the chair where John Dry den sate.
Сторінка 77 - thieves are examined within a few yards of us. Mary had not been here four and twenty hours before she saw a thief. She sits at the window working; and casually throwing out her eyes, she sees a concourse of people coming this way, with a constable to conduct the solemnity. These little incidents agreeably diversify a female life.
Сторінка 69 - All order was destroyed; all business was suspended. The most good-natured host began to repent of his eagerness to serve a man of genius in distress, when he heard his guest roaring for fresh punch at five o'clock in the morning
Сторінка 81 - Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bon-mots are echoed from box to box. Every branch of literature is critically examined, and the merit of every production of the press, or performance of the theatres, weighed and determined.
Сторінка 79 - died, had been absent for some time, and returned not knowing that Ford was dead. Going down into the cellar, according to the story, he met him. Going down again he met him a second time. When he came up, he asked
Сторінка 224 - arrange their hampers, just come in from the country. Johnson made some attempts to help them, but the honest gardeners stared so at his figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns and made a bowl of that liquor called ' Bishop," which Johnson had always liked