The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events : St. Paul's to St. James'sUnit Library, 1903 - 626 pages |
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Page viii
... DRYDEN'S HOUSE IN FETTER LANE . JOHNSON , THE GENIUS LOCI OF FLEET STREET . HIS WAY OF LIFE . HIS RESIDENCE IN GOUGH SQUARE . JOHNSON'S COURT AND BOLT COURT . VARIOUS ANECDOTES OF HIM CONNECTED WITH FLEET STREET , AND WITH HIS FAVOURITE ...
... DRYDEN'S HOUSE IN FETTER LANE . JOHNSON , THE GENIUS LOCI OF FLEET STREET . HIS WAY OF LIFE . HIS RESIDENCE IN GOUGH SQUARE . JOHNSON'S COURT AND BOLT COURT . VARIOUS ANECDOTES OF HIM CONNECTED WITH FLEET STREET , AND WITH HIS FAVOURITE ...
Page xi
... DRYDEN BEATEN BY HIRED RUFFIANS IN ROSE STREET . HIS PRESIDENCY AT WILL'S COFFEE - HOUSE . CHARACTER OF THAT PLACE . ADDISON AND BUTTON'S COFFEE- HOUSE . POPE , PHILIPS , AND GARTH . ARMSTRONG . BOSWELL'S INTRODUCTION TO JOHNSON . THE ...
... DRYDEN BEATEN BY HIRED RUFFIANS IN ROSE STREET . HIS PRESIDENCY AT WILL'S COFFEE - HOUSE . CHARACTER OF THAT PLACE . ADDISON AND BUTTON'S COFFEE- HOUSE . POPE , PHILIPS , AND GARTH . ARMSTRONG . BOSWELL'S INTRODUCTION TO JOHNSON . THE ...
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... Dryden's house in Gerard Street looked into the garden of the mansion built by the Earls of Leicester . A tree , or even a flower , put in a window , in the streets of a great city ( and the London citizens , to their credit , are fond ...
... Dryden's house in Gerard Street looked into the garden of the mansion built by the Earls of Leicester . A tree , or even a flower , put in a window , in the streets of a great city ( and the London citizens , to their credit , are fond ...
Page 75
... Dryden's Ode . A society for the annual commemoration of St. Cecilia , the patroness of music , was instituted in the year 1680 , not without an eye perhaps to the religious opinions of the heir pre- sumptive who was shortly to ascend ...
... Dryden's Ode . A society for the annual commemoration of St. Cecilia , the patroness of music , was instituted in the year 1680 , not without an eye perhaps to the religious opinions of the heir pre- sumptive who was shortly to ascend ...
Page 76
... Dryden in a state of emotion one morning , the whole night having been passed , agitante deo , under the fever of inspiration . From Stationers ' Hall once issued all the almanacks that were published , with all the trash and ...
... Dryden in a state of emotion one morning , the whole night having been passed , agitante deo , under the fever of inspiration . From Stationers ' Hall once issued all the almanacks that were published , with all the trash and ...
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