Fifty Years' Recollections of an Old Bookseller: Consisting of Anecdotes, Characteristic Sketches, and Original Traits and Eccentricities, of Authors, Artists, Actors, Books, Booksellers, and of the Periodical Press for the Last Half Century, with Appropriate SelectionsThe author, 1837 - 200 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... known to wear a waistcoat . His shoes short quartered , high tongued , square toed , with pinchbeck buckles . His gardeners were strictly enjoined to produce him a nose- gay of the finest flowers , ere he proceeded on his morning ride ...
... known to wear a waistcoat . His shoes short quartered , high tongued , square toed , with pinchbeck buckles . His gardeners were strictly enjoined to produce him a nose- gay of the finest flowers , ere he proceeded on his morning ride ...
Pàgina 10
... known to the author when he had so large a family as twelve children . His eldest daughter , a beautiful girl , had nearly won the heart of the author's eldest brother . The following account of him was written by Captain Grose , and ...
... known to the author when he had so large a family as twelve children . His eldest daughter , a beautiful girl , had nearly won the heart of the author's eldest brother . The following account of him was written by Captain Grose , and ...
Pàgina 13
... known some of the profession by that name , although them justice , he has , throughout all his vicissitudes , received not only indulgence , but also much personal kindness from them . Captain Grose also furnishes another curious ...
... known some of the profession by that name , although them justice , he has , throughout all his vicissitudes , received not only indulgence , but also much personal kindness from them . Captain Grose also furnishes another curious ...
Pàgina 21
... known by the name of John Horne Tooke . Anecdotes of him will appear in our future pages . In this year , ( 1774 , ) the new excise office was built on the site where Gresham college stood . The author's affinity to the family of Sir ...
... known by the name of John Horne Tooke . Anecdotes of him will appear in our future pages . In this year , ( 1774 , ) the new excise office was built on the site where Gresham college stood . The author's affinity to the family of Sir ...
Pàgina 26
... known , will not disregard . I re- pent that I have violated the laws by which peace and con- fidence are established among men ; I repent that I have at- tempted to injure my fellow creatures , and I repent that 1 have brought disgrace ...
... known , will not disregard . I re- pent that I have violated the laws by which peace and con- fidence are established among men ; I repent that I have at- tempted to injure my fellow creatures , and I repent that 1 have brought disgrace ...
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Pàgina 137 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Pàgina 158 - That it is an high indignity to, and a notorious breach of the privilege of, this House, for any News-writer, in letters or other papers (as minutes, or under any other denomination), or for any printer or publisher of any printed Newspaper of any denomination, to presume to insert in the said letters or papers, or to give therein any account of the debates, or other proceedings of this House, or any committee thereof, as well during the recess, as the sitting of Parliament ; and that this House...
Pàgina 69 - The History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation to the Death of Queen Mary,
Pàgina 156 - ... rival Magazines would meanly have submitted. He was a friend rather easy and constant, than zealous and active; yet many instances might be given where both his money and his diligence were employed liberally for others. His enmity was in like manner cool and deliberate; but though cool, it was not insidious, and though deliberate, not pertinacious. His mental faculties were slow. He saw little at a time, but that little he saw with great exactness. He was long in finding the right, but seldom...
Pàgina 25 - You shall be taken from the place where you are, and be carried to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be severally hanged by your necks until you be dead. And the Lord have mercy on your souls.
Pàgina 97 - This apprentice was an exceedingly hard-featured youth, with thick lips, wide mouth, broad nose, and his face very much marked with the small-pox, but very kind and good tempered. I perfectly remember his carrying me in my petticoats, consoling me as we went, and giving me something nice to eat. Perhaps I bear his features in mind the more accurately, because I occasionally saw him afterwards, till I was seven or eight years old, when he used to visit my father, who was then under misfortunes. He...
Pàgina 192 - May the example contribute to emancipate thy mind from the idle fears of Superstition, and the wicked arts of Priesthood.
Pàgina 158 - That it is a high indignity to, and a notorious breach of the Privilege of this House, for any News-writer, in Letters or other Papers (as Minutes, or under any other denomination), or for any Printer or Publisher of any printed News-paper of any denomination, to presume to insert...
Pàgina 140 - WHEREAS John Dryden, Esq., was on Monday, the 18th instant, at night, barbarously assaulted and wounded, in Rose Street in Co-vent Garden, by divers men unknown ; if any person shall make discovery of the said offenders to the said Mr. Dryden, or to any Justice of the Peace, he shall not only receive Fifty Pounds, which is deposited in the hands of Mr. Blanchard, Goldsmith, next door to Temple Bar, for the said purpose, but if he be a principal or an accessory in the said fact, his Majesty is graciously...
Pàgina 155 - Magazine," a periodical pamphlet, of which the scheme is known wherever the English language is spoken. To this undertaking he owed the affluence in which he passed the last twenty years of his life, and the fortune which he left behind him, which, though large, had been yet larger, had he not rashly and wantonly impaired it by innumerable projects, of which I know not that ever one succeeded.