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A History of the County of Oxford
… Clement's in 1866, and Wombwell's was in the town in 1871. Boswell's circus was held in Hall's Close opposite the …
Old and New London
… by, at the corner of Compton Street, that Johnson and Boswell, Reynolds and Burke, kept their literary evenings, … elections took place by ballot. Johnson himself proposed Boswell, and the last member elected in Johnson's life was … of Families;" and before him by Horace Walpole and by Boswell. A tablet in the churchyard to his memory bears the …
Survey of London
… bundle. C. E. Vulliamy, The Onslow Family, 1953, p. 127. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, revised by L. F. …
Survey of London
… the politician and philologist, and the sons of James Boswell and Edmund Burke. 75 Doctor Cuthbert Barwis died in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… manor until the late 18th century, 29 although on William Boswell's death in 1638 five farms in South Leigh passed to his younger son Edward Boswell or Bosvile of Temple Cowley, and later to Edward's …
Survey of London
… its Vicinity 1830; Plan of London from Actual Survey 1832. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G.B. Hill, revised by L. F. …
Old and New London
… hors he sat." "Foreigners are not a little amazed," writes Boswell, in his "Life of Johnson," "when they hear of … Hester Lynch Salusbury, of good Welsh extraction, and, as Boswell informs us, "a lady of lively talents, improved by … Piozzi, to become a shining light in English literature. Boswell tells us, in his "Life of Johnson," that the great …
Old and New London
… rather alley, from its length and narrowness) runs into Boswell Court." It is a common mistake to suppose that Boswell Court owed its name to the biographer of Dr. Johnson. … and Lord Chief Justice of England, in 1639. From Boswell House, Gilbert Talbot wrote a letter of "London …
Old and New London
… of the days of Cromwell had started from their graves." In Boswell's "Life of Johnson" we read that just when the great … and burnt a mass-house in Moorfields the same night." Boswell speaks of these riots as "a miserable sedition, from … entered into the philosophy of dreams and dreamland. In Boswell's "Life of Johnson" we read how that Mrs. Burney …
Old and New London
… "County Directories." Messrs. Kelly removed here from Old Boswell Court, St. Clement Danes, on the demolition of that …