Londoniana, المجلد 1Hurst and Blackett, 1879 |
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الصفحة 204 - walnut and mulberry, of thick foliage. ... I can sit and read under their shade, which I delight in doing, with as much admiration of the beauties of nature (remembering at the same time the words of my favourite poet, ' Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God,') as if I were two hundred miles from the great city.
الصفحة 271 - In spite of these eloquent eulogies, the cause of darkness was not left undefended. There were in that age fools who opposed the introduction of what was called the new light, as strenuously as fools in our age have opposed the introduction of vaccination and railroads,
الصفحة 240 - our voyage ; but I landed with ten sail of apricot boats, at Strand Bridge, after having put in at Nine Elms, and taken in melons, consigned by Mr. Cuffe of that place, to Sarah Sewell and Company, at their stall in Covent Garden. We arrived at Strand Bridge
الصفحة 182 - but people in those days thought otherwise, for Walpole, in a letter to Montague, says: 'I have been this morning to the Tower, and passed under the new heads at Temple Bar, where people make a trade of letting spyingglasses at a half-penny a look.
الصفحة 19 - masquerade, and determined to marry her in the spring. About a fortnight since, at an immense assembly at Lord Chesterfield's, made to show the house, which is really most magnificent, Duke Hamilton made violent love at one end of the room, while he was playing at pharaoh
الصفحة 217 - uttered. ... I have heard of women fainting at a song of Moore's; and if the burden of it answered by chance to a secret in the bosom of the listener, I should think, from its comparative effect upon so old a stager as myself, that the heart would break with it.
الصفحة 6 - At the true Chapel at the old red Hand and Mitre, three doors from Fleet Lane, and next door to the White Swan, Marriages are performed by authority by the Reverend Mr. Symson, Educated at the University of Cambridge, and late Chaplain to the Earl of
الصفحة 241 - at six of the clock, and were unloading, when the hackney coachmen of the foregoing night took their leave of each other at the Dark House to go to bed before the day was too far spent. Chimney-sweepers passed by
الصفحة 252 - theatres, porticos, and schools ; suppose, in one word, the City of the Gods, composed out of palaces and public edifices, and you may form some faint idea of the glories of the great thermae of Imperial Rome." No doubt it is to the Greeks that the Romans owed their knowledge of the hot-air bath as a
الصفحة 217 - We all sat round the piano, and, after two or three songs of Lady Blessington's choosing, Moore rambled over the keys awhile, and then sang " When first I met thee," with a pathos that beggars description. When the last word had faltered out, he rose and took Lady Blessington's hand, said good night, and was gone before a word