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Old and New London
… Mall adorn With various dyes and paint the sunny morn."" Gay's Trivia." The Game of MallDiscovery of Mailes and Balls … milk, sir!" If we may judge from a fashionable conceit in Gay's "Trivia," we may conclude that not only cows' but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… pastors were less worthy: Samuel Park (1739 c. 1766) was 'gay and light in his practices, fond of convivial company'; …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… during the earlier Middle Ages; at Lynn, only the Nar and Gay and their little tributaries flowed out to sea. Before … the smaller and less convenient estuary of the Nar and the Gay at Lynn must have been a powerful factor working against …
Old and New London
… may have worked in with his uncle before he became gay. The counting-house commands a view of both melting …
Old and New London
… a pleasant arrangement of walks, shrubberies, green turf, gay flowers, and shady trees, that if the place were situated … many a royal progress, when banners and knights and ladies gay, in purple and pall,' have circled past, or when the …
Old and New London
… at our feet, and the low banks decked with all gay flowersthese are the materials of the picture; and he who …
Old and New London
… Pepys in a bustle. Here advance Prior, Swift, Arbuthnot, Gay, Sir Isaac Newton; Steele, from visiting Addison; … men offered to take his place, but neither he nor the gay little duchess would allow of this, and Talleyrand seemed … is now best remembered by the place he occupies in Gay's (or Swift's) ballad, entitled "Duke upon Duke," where, …
Old and New London
… with himself." Along this road travelled Charles II. and a gay train of cavaliers, on his Restoration and return, by way …
Survey of London
… magnificence of the room, I felt that I could not be as gay and thoughtless there as at Ranelagh, for there is … we had seen Ranelagh when the view was enlivened with a gay profusion of colours . I said there was not half a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the same way. Defoe in 1727 found Preston a fine and gay town, but inferior in population to Liverpool and …