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Old and New London
… State "Lord John came up the other day, Attended by a lady gay, 'Oh, dear!' he cried, 'how like Lord T.! I can't bear to …
Old and New London
… except curious antiquaries. This was a lounge of the rich gay wits and gallants of the days of Addison and Steele, and …
Old and New London
… acquire a rapid friendship for the encaustic flowers and gay colours of the new design. They missed the old sonorous …
The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the fifteenth century
… was shewynge of many a wede, There was many a getton 159 gay, Moche ryalte and ryche a ray. Whenn the gatys were opynd … iij byschoppys 166 in hyr a ray, vij abbottys with crossys gay; xlij 167 crossys there were Of rerygyus 168 and …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… Oct. Hutchinson, J. 1755 14 Apr. Robinson, W. 1757 1 Oct. Gay, J. 1757 1 Oct. Jones, J. (att. Master of the Horse) 1759 …
Old and New London
… the victim at once believed in the respectability of the gay deceiver. With the single exception of Mr. David Ricardo, …
Old and New London
… let us stray, With thee conversing, I forget the way." Gay. Condition of the Strand in the Days of the Plantagenets … we may believe such an eyewitness as John Evelyn, was very gay and brilliant. He writes in his Diary, "May 29, 1660. …
Old and New London
… "Where Catherine Street descends into the Strand." Gay. Catherine StreetDerivation of its NameThe Morning … the days of our great-grandfathers, may be gathered from Gay's "Trivia." The poet, who speaks of the dangers of the … place mentions "Doyly petticoats;" but if we may believe Gay's "Trivia," these articles were more elegant than useful …
Old and New London
… through the roads of Drury's mazy courts and dark abodes!" Gay's " Trivia." "Paltry and proud as drabs in Drury Lane." … present as in the past century, is delicately hinted at by Gay, in the lines quoted from "Trivia," at the head of this …
Old and New London
… goldsmith named Snow, whose memory is thus immortalised by Gay: "Disdain not, Snow, my humble verse to hear; Stick thy … air of men with heavy business engagements, or else in gay caps and slippers, as though wishing to display their … "In Milford Lane, near to St. Clement's steeple;" and Gay also mentions it in his "Trivia," in the following terms: …