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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: …
Old and New London
… shore; There Cecil's, Bedford's, Villiers'now no more." Gay. Beaufort BuildingsFielding, the NovelistWorcester … the Church into those of royalty, became celebrated as a gay scene of chivalric entertainment on many occasions. In … the time of Charles II. who is without a reference to this gay place. The shops, or stalls, had their respective signs, …
Old and New London
… a man-servant, and ran into debt with his usual gay and thoughtless vanity to Mr. Filby, the tailor, of Water …
Survey of London
… support and adorn them: They are made more light and more gay by inserting in Front of each a Pannel of Plate Glass, …
Old and New London
… of Charles V. of France, and father of Louis XII., a gay knight, whom Shakespeare has glanced at in the play of … who had expected a pardon, came on the scaffold in a gay suit. "God bless King James," he cried, as he knelt to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Willis wrote in August 1767: 'I have been somewhat more gay and idle than I should have been this last fortnight, in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… colleges, the disuse of clerical habits and the wearing of gay-coloured clothes and of long hair, the neglect of Fridays …
Old and New London
… their money at par. Even the poets did not escape. Gay (says Dr. Johnson, in his "Lives of the Poets") had a … was rejected; the profit and principal were both lost, and Gay sunk so low under the calamity that his life for a time …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Catherine, who, residing here for some time, with the gay court of that monarch, gave it additional attraction. It …