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Old and New London
… female correspondents to prove that "Joseph Andrews" was low.' "There was but one statesman in the whole of English … dull, respectable old prig; Richardson on Fielding as a low rake, who wrote like a man who had been an ostler born in …
Old and New London
… very pleasantly in the columns of a contemporary. "A long low room," says the writer, "like the saloon of a large … Postman," or "The Dogs'-meat Man"rough caricatures of low life, unstained by the vulgarity of many of the modern …
Old and New London
… and changeless character of the "Cheese," in whose low-roofed and sanded rooms Goldsmith and Johnson have so … here. A small room with heavily-timbered windows. A low planked ceiling. A huge, projecting fire-place, with a …
Old and New London
… at a reasonable rate; but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me 'to give him something as an … its meetings is neither large nor handsome. It is a long, low, narrow room, only furnished with a table (covered with …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… towns of these hundreds of Flegg take their name from a low, moist, watery site. Flegg Deanery. It was not taxed, the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… a moulded string-course of the same date; further W. is a 'low-side' window of one square-headed light, rebated …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… for seed. Lucern is grown on about 200 acres of the low sandy tracts bordering on the estuary of the Dee, between … Chester it reaches the main body of the county, through a low marshy portion of which is carried its modern artificial …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… encroachments made by the sea, reduced it to a very low and inconsiderable state, in which it continued until the …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… of which lies every christian's duty. Negative virtue is a low step in the scale of christian perfection. To the … which sustain it. The original entrance was beneath a low triangular-headed arch on the western side; which has …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… there are faint traces of former closes bounded by low banks and scarps or by very shallow ditches. Most are … At their S. ends, near the hollow-way, are a number of low platforms and scarps which might be former building sites … of at least one and perhaps two enclosures bounded by low banks are the only visible earthworks but these, in …