London of To-day: An Illustrated Handbook for the Season 1892 |
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Other editions - View all
London of To-Day: An Illustrated Handbook for the Season 1892 (Classic Reprint) Charles Eyre Pascoe No preview available - 2017 |
London of To-Day: An Illustrated Handbook for the Season 1892 Charles Eyre Pascoe No preview available - 2015 |
London of To-Day: An Illustrated Handbook for the Season 1892 Charles Eyre Pascoe No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
admission American artists boats Bond Street building Burlington Chapel CHAPTER Charing Cross Cheapside Church City clubs comfort Concerts convenient Court Covent Garden Crystal Palace daily dine dinner dress Duke east England English entertainment exhibitions famous fare fashion favour Fleet Street Gallery Gardens gentlemen George grand Hall Haymarket Henley Hotel House of Commons Hyde Park interesting James Kensington ladies Lane Library London of To-Day London Season Ludgate Hill mansion meet Messrs Métropole modern Museum occupied Office opera Oxford Street Pall Mall perhaps persons Piccadilly pleasant popular present Prince of Wales Princess of Wales principal Queen Railway Regent Street reputation resort restaurants Road rooms Royal seats shops side Society South Square Station Strand Strangers summer Sunday table d'hôte Temple Thames Theatre thoroughfare Tower travelling visitor West Westminster Wigmore Street
Popular passages
Page 201 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 19 - And I love it. I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine; and, I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand), you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
Page 72 - It did; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.
Page 205 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 141 - ... open to all artists of distinguished merit, where they may offer their performances to public inspection, and acquire that degree of reputation and encouragement which they shall be deemed to deserve.
Page 165 - Cavalry, march from their respective barracks to the parade-ground in rear of the Horse Guards, Whitehall ; and there (at 10 am), usually in presence of the Prince of Wales and other members of the Royal Family...
Page 81 - GENTEEL in personage, Conduct, and equipage, Noble by heritage, Generous and free: Brave, not romantic; Learned, not pedantic; Frolic, not frantic; This must he be. Honor maintaining, Meanness disdaining, Still entertaining, Engaging and new. Neat, but not finical; Sage, but not cynical; Never tyrannical, But ever true. Henry Carey [ ? -1743] "PHILLADA FLOUTS ME...
Page 201 - Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee, O God! I speak it, having no other friends but thee alone.