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Old and New London
… of new-felt power came over them, that they turned to wild beasts. When they reached the Houses of Parliament, … remorse, with blood defiled, And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe." Threading our way along the corridor …
Old and New London
… an early date it bore a bad character, and in it Jonathan Wild kept "a house of ill-fame." Constant allusions to its … court called Pitt Place, running out of Drury Lane into Wild Street. It was erected about 1615, but pulled down by … here a handsome residence, the site of which is marked by Wild (formerly Weld) Court and Little Wild Street. In Parker …
Old and New London
… Van Amburgh, the lion-tamer, with his formidable troupe of wild beasts, had at this time gained such a triumph over …
Old and New London
… cart or friendly bench, and bellowing out all sorts of wild denunciations of the then Government. To use Boswell's …
Old and New London
… by the Whigs, and probably the inefficiency of his former wild theories to confer real happiness on his country, he …
Old and New London
… from the forehead, and then suffering it to fall in the wild luxuriance that called forth the censures of the clergy, …
Survey of London
… front rises to an ornate gable decorated in relief with a wild boar, Harris's name and the date (Ills 274, 275). The …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… church. But first they cast out rosin and gunpowder with wild-fire, to make the children afraid; and that must needs …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 150 v. The joiner is not named, but he was probably John Wild, who, with Peisley, was being employed in the Chapel in … in 1659 in MS. Rawl. B. 397, p. 202. The joiner was John Wild, who was also employed to fit up Brasenose College …
Old and New London
… still her fame Shines on thee, thro' the tempests dark and wild Which shake these latter days; and thou canst claim The …