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Old and New London
… and lefts,' erroneously believed to be a very modern fashion of shoemaking." This tomb, like all others in the …
Old and New London
… of the fees." The whole scene, by the caprice of a morbid fashion, was converted into the semblance of a gala-day. …
Old and New London
… of (say) 1825, elderly gentlemen were attired after the fashion of Hogarth's pictures. The stage here was the scene …
Old and New London
… was formerly a waxen figure of her, after the usual royal fashion, adorned with jewels, prepared in her life by her own … children in the way they should go;' but severity was the fashion of the day; and although naturally a tender and … though still represented, is fast giving way to the new fashion sanctioned by authority. One obvious advantage which …
Old and New London
… and one from St. Anne's Lane. The style is the later fashion of the geometrical variety of Middlepointed, or, what …
Old and New London
… and August, when the West-End is emptied of all rank and fashion, thousands of "roughs" and idlers may be seen lying … their rapiers between the legs of sober citizens in such a fashion as to make them cut the most grotesque capers. The …