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Addison admiration amusement appears Bagnigge became Bell Ben Jonson Blue-Stocking Boar's Head Boswell Brooks's building Button's called CHAPTER Cheapside Cheshire Cheese club Cock coffee coffee-house court Covent Garden Devil dined dinner drink Dryden Duke Earl eighteenth century entertainment fact Falstaff famous favour favourite Fleet Street frequented Garrick Goldsmith Horace Walpole hostelry inns and taverns James's John Johnson King King's Kit-Cat club known ladies later letter Lord Lord Byron Marylebone Gardens meet memory ment Mermaid Mitre Nando's night notable occasion old London Oliver Goldsmith once PAUL PINDAR Paul's Pepys pilgrim pleasure poet poetical pounds Prince Prince of Wales Ranelagh record resort Rotunda scene seems Selwyn seventeenth century shillings Southwark story sword Tabard TAVERNS OF OLD tells thoroughfare tion took town Vauxhall waiter walked Walpole White Hart Will's wine wrote young
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Page 64 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! How have I seen the casual passer through the cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration, (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula,) to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of...
Page 54 - ... and can. I have heard that on a day Mine host's sign-board flew away, Nobody knew whither, till An astrologer's old quill To a sheepskin gave the story, Said he saw you in your glory, Underneath a new old sign Sipping beverage divine, And pledging with contented smack The Mermaid in the Zodiac.
Page 53 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 4 - A semely man our hoste was with-alle For to han been a marshal in an halle; A large man he was with eyen stepe...
Page 56 - Ah Ben! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Page 47 - HERE lies old Hobson ; death hath broke his girt And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
Page 303 - I was dazzled and confounded with the variety of beauties that rushed all at once upon my eye. Image to yourself, my dear Letty, a spacious garden, part laid out in delightful walks, bounded with high hedges and trees, and paved with gravel ; part exhibiting a wonderful assemblage of the most picturesque and striking objects...
Page 214 - I would have them all know, that on the twentieth instant it is my intention to erect a lion's head, in imitation of those I have described in Venice, through which all the private intelligence of that commonwealth is said to pass. This head is to open a most wide and voracious mouth, which shall take in such letters and papers as are conveyed to me by my correspondents...
Page 290 - A great deal of company, and the weather and garden pleasant : and it is very pleasant and cheap going thither, for a man may go to spend what he will, or nothing, all is one.
Page 227 - That respectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps, of the first men in the kingdom in point of fashion and fortune, supping at little tables covered with a napkin, in the middle of a coffeeroom, upon a bit of cold meat, or a sandwich, and drinking a glass of punch.