The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present DayJ.C. Hotten, 1866 - 536 من الصفحات |
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... bookseller filled with the monuments of departed minds . Such scraps of history may help to picture this old London as it appeared dur ing the last three centuries . For the contemplative mind there is some charm even in getting at the ...
... bookseller filled with the monuments of departed minds . Such scraps of history may help to picture this old London as it appeared dur ing the last three centuries . For the contemplative mind there is some charm even in getting at the ...
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... booksellers generally had a woodcut of their signs for the colophon of their books , so that their shops might get known by the inspection of these cuts . For this reason , Benedict Hector , one of the early Bolognese printers , gives ...
... booksellers generally had a woodcut of their signs for the colophon of their books , so that their shops might get known by the inspection of these cuts . For this reason , Benedict Hector , one of the early Bolognese printers , gives ...
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... booksellers , while their heads denom- inate the learned repositors of their works . But I know not whence it happens that publicans have claimed a right to the physiognomies of kings and heroes , as I cannot find out , by the most ...
... booksellers , while their heads denom- inate the learned repositors of their works . But I know not whence it happens that publicans have claimed a right to the physiognomies of kings and heroes , as I cannot find out , by the most ...
الصفحة 54
... bookseller lived at the sign of the Rainbow , at the same time as one Farr , who opened this place as a coffee - house . Another bookseller , James Roberts , who printed most of the satires , epigrams , and other wasp - stings against ...
... bookseller lived at the sign of the Rainbow , at the same time as one Farr , who opened this place as a coffee - house . Another bookseller , James Roberts , who printed most of the satires , epigrams , and other wasp - stings against ...
الصفحة 64
... bookseller near Fleetbridge . Being the martyr of a party , he undoubtedly for a while must have been a popular sign . LORD ANGLESEY was , in 1679 , adopted by an inn in Drury Lane . This , we suppose , was Arthur , second Viscount ...
... bookseller near Fleetbridge . Being the martyr of a party , he undoubtedly for a while must have been a popular sign . LORD ANGLESEY was , in 1679 , adopted by an inn in Drury Lane . This , we suppose , was Arthur , second Viscount ...
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الصفحة 226 - With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid; heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
الصفحة 300 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder : The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
الصفحة 483 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
الصفحة 431 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
الصفحة 281 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered.
الصفحة 92 - ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, Who sickened in the time of his Vacancy, being forbid to go to London by reason of the Plague Here lies old Hobson. Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to one He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down; For he...
الصفحة 400 - The next observed that the word 'makes' might as well be omitted, because his customers would not care who made the hats. If good and to their mind they would buy, by whomsoever made. He struck it out. A third said he thought the words 'for ready money' were useless, as it was not the custom of the place to sell on credit.
الصفحة 17 - If drawn by business to a street unknown, Let the sworn porter point thee through the town ; Be sure observe the signs, for signs remain, Like faithful landmarks, to the walking train.
الصفحة 478 - Slavery ; vastly fond of great Noises that fill the Ear, such as the firing of Cannon, Drums, and the ringing of Bells, so that it is common for a number of them, that have got a Glass in their Heads, to go up into some Belfry, and ring the Bells for Hours together, for the sake of Exercise.