Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall: Or, A Ramble from Haymarket to Hyde ParkSmith, Elder & Company, 1870 - 405 pagina's |
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... stone well fitted and joynted , and above stayres in the first story 4 spacious Roomes ; also out of one of the said Roomes one faire Belcony , opening wth . a pleasant prospect southwards to the Bowling Alleyes ; and in the second ...
... stone well fitted and joynted , and above stayres in the first story 4 spacious Roomes ; also out of one of the said Roomes one faire Belcony , opening wth . a pleasant prospect southwards to the Bowling Alleyes ; and in the second ...
Pagina 18
... stone houses ; at first I concluded that all the grooms that used to live there had got estates and built palaces . " Between the years 1761 and 1764 , the Dilettanti Society projected a building in Piccadilly on the model of the Temple ...
... stone houses ; at first I concluded that all the grooms that used to live there had got estates and built palaces . " Between the years 1761 and 1764 , the Dilettanti Society projected a building in Piccadilly on the model of the Temple ...
Pagina 31
... stone basin of water in the centre , and extended nearly into Curzon Street . The house was rebuilt Diary , vol . iii . pp . 85-88 . • Walpole's Correspondence , 1840 , vol . ii . p . 123 . in 1821 by Alexander Baring , who was created ...
... stone basin of water in the centre , and extended nearly into Curzon Street . The house was rebuilt Diary , vol . iii . pp . 85-88 . • Walpole's Correspondence , 1840 , vol . ii . p . 123 . in 1821 by Alexander Baring , who was created ...
Pagina 32
... stone , and , tho ' not much adorned , is elegant , and well situated for a town- house , having a fine view over the Green Park , which would be still more extended if the houses on each side were set farther back . " 10 Charles ...
... stone , and , tho ' not much adorned , is elegant , and well situated for a town- house , having a fine view over the Green Park , which would be still more extended if the houses on each side were set farther back . " 10 Charles ...
Pagina 34
... stone . The character of the front was retained , but much improved , and raised some fourteen feet , and the interior was entirely re - arranged . Although still in the possession of the Marquis of Hertford , the house is uninhabited ...
... stone . The character of the front was retained , but much improved , and raised some fourteen feet , and the interior was entirely re - arranged . Although still in the possession of the Marquis of Hertford , the house is uninhabited ...
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afterwards appears beauty Berkeley Bond Street building built Burlington House called Carlton House celebrated chapel Charles Charles II Chesterfield Clarendon Clarendon House Club coaches Countess Court death described Diary died Domestic Series door Duchess Duke of York east England erected Evelyn fair fashion favourite formerly front gallery gate gave George George III Green Park ground handsome Haymarket Henry honour Horace Walpole Horse Hyde Park Corner inhabited James James's Palace James's Park James's Square James's Street Kensington King King's Lady late letter lived lodged London Lord Burlington Lord Chancellor magnificent mansion Marlborough Marquis married occupied Opera Pall Mall Piccadilly poet Pope present Prince of Wales Princess Queen reign residence Rolliad Royal says Selwyn side Sir John Sir Robert Society sold stone taste theatre Thomas took town trees walk wall Westminster Whitehall wife William
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Pagina 257 - This royal infant—heaven still move about her !— Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, Which time shall bring to ripeness :—she shall be, But few now living can behold that goodness— A pattern to all princes living with her, And all that shall succeed.
Pagina 79 - Blest be the great, for those they take away And those they left me, for they left me Gay ; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er
Pagina 329 - I walked with the King through St. James's Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between Mrs. Nelly, as they call an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall.
Pagina 121 - Say what revenge on Dennis can be had ? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad. On one so poor you cannot take the law, On one so old your sword you scorn to draw. Uncaged, then, let the harmless monster rage, Secure in dulness, madness, want, and age.
Pagina 196 - Institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements ; and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
Pagina 320 - In town let me live, then, in town let me die ; For in truth I can't relish the country, not I. If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall.
Pagina 211 - keep or be concerned in keeping any racehorses or pack of hounds, or reside one night at Newmarket, that infamous seminary of iniquity and illmanners, during the course of the races there ; or shall resort to the said races ; or shall lose in any one day at any game or bet whatsoever, the sum of