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Old and New London
… the windows of dukes and duchesses, lords and ladies, gay courtiers, or well-dressed wits; we come back into the … was a greater benefactor than at first might be supposed. Gay's poem of "Trivia," it is true, commemorates the earlier …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… moiety was impropriate and held by John Kemp. 1629, Edmund Gay, rector. Thomas Rolfe, rector. 1661. Thomas Campbell, by …
The Environs of London
… the most eminent of his literary contemporaries. Swift, Gay, and himself frequently made an illustrious triumvirate …
Old and New London
… shake hands with the hangman, and so farewell; or Gay wrote the most delightful ballads, and then made merry … processions of policemen; what light broughams and what gay carriages; what swarms of busy apprentices and …
A History of the County of Essex
… in Upminster, as in neighbouring parishes. In 1881 Isaac Gay of Great Sunnings won a prize given by the Royal …
Old and New London
… worth all the Peru. "Let misers in garrets lay up their gay store, And keep their rich bags to live wretchedly poor; … That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim; Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimick'd statesmen, and a merry …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… some time with all its rights and appurtenances, Thomas Gay, layman, of the city of London, has taken fruits, tithes …
Old and New London
… across the water to which the "merry monarch" and his gay ladies would often repair on fine evenings. … the English nation; there being a mixture of curious show, gay exhibition, music, vocal and instrumental, not too … When we endeavour to re-people these gardens with the gay crowds which a century ago frequented them, so light of …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… Street, transforming his late father-in-law's house into a gay court, the old usurer himself being forgotten. Lord …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… of little boys have been made to parade the city daily, in gay attire, on horseback. The chief performer wears a crown …