Fifty Years of London Life: Memoirs of a Man of the WorldHarper & brothers, 1885 - 444 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 34
Página 2
... late Mr. W. P. Hale , son of Archdeacon Hale , Master of the Charter - house , told me that when a school - boy he once addressed a letter to my father at the Adelphi Theatre , asking him , on the plea of his having formerly been a ...
... late Mr. W. P. Hale , son of Archdeacon Hale , Master of the Charter - house , told me that when a school - boy he once addressed a letter to my father at the Adelphi Theatre , asking him , on the plea of his having formerly been a ...
Página 3
... late Dr. Quin and the late Lord William Pitt Lennox have frequently spoken to me of his being there with them , a most delightful comrade . It was there that he first gave evidence of the possession of any histrionic ability , and his ...
... late Dr. Quin and the late Lord William Pitt Lennox have frequently spoken to me of his being there with them , a most delightful comrade . It was there that he first gave evidence of the possession of any histrionic ability , and his ...
Página 38
... late anxieties , and offer you my congratulations on the progress towards recovery which Mr. Yates has made , to whom I beg you will present my continued wishes for his perfect restoration . Having heard that you purpose setting out for ...
... late anxieties , and offer you my congratulations on the progress towards recovery which Mr. Yates has made , to whom I beg you will present my continued wishes for his perfect restoration . Having heard that you purpose setting out for ...
Página 67
... the salutation and depart . This was the usual style of performance ; but I remem- ber two exceptional cases , in both of which the late Lord . young and strong to take with my lunch- ed for EARLY DAYS IN THE POST - OFFICE . 67.
... the salutation and depart . This was the usual style of performance ; but I remem- ber two exceptional cases , in both of which the late Lord . young and strong to take with my lunch- ed for EARLY DAYS IN THE POST - OFFICE . 67.
Página 83
... late years it has somewhat deteriorated , but in those days it was a very pretty place . The houses had large gardens , and the respectability of the locality was unimpeachable , my kind old friend , Mr. Thomas Harrison , Commissioner ...
... late years it has somewhat deteriorated , but in those days it was a very pretty place . The houses had large gardens , and the respectability of the locality was unimpeachable , my kind old friend , Mr. Thomas Harrison , Commissioner ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Fifty Years of London Life: Memoirs of a Man of the World ... Edmund Hodgson Yates Vista completa - 1881 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance actor Adelphi admirable afterwards Albert Smith amateur amusement appeared arrived Arthur Smith asked audience brought called character Charles Dickens Charles Mathews clever Colonel comic commenced course Covent Garden dear delightful Dickens Dickens's dinner dramatic editor Edmund Yates Egyptian Hall engaged English entertainment excellent farce father Fechter fellow Frank Smedley Frederick Yates Garden Garrick Club gentleman George going Hall heard Highgate humor Jerrold John John Oxenford joke Keeley kind knew known Lady letter literary lived London looked Lord manner Mark Lemon ment Messrs Miss morning mother never night novel old friend once pantomime passed person played pleasant Post-office present Punch recollect remember Robert Brough round Sala scene seen sent Shirley Brooks story Street success talk Thackeray theatre theatrical thought tion told took wife William write wrote young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 285 - We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die!
Página 444 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the "Thirty Years
Página 444 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Página 234 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains: They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Página 444 - GEBLER (Karl Von). Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia, from Authentic Sources. Translated with the sanction of the Author, by Mrs. GEORGE STURGE. Demy 8vo. Cloth, price i2,$. GEDDES (James). History of the Administration of John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland.
Página 198 - A pleasant land, not fenced with drab stucco, like Tyburnia or Belgravia; not guarded by a huge standing army of footmen; not echoing with noble chariots; not replete with polite chintz drawing-rooms and neat tea-tables; a land over which hangs an endless fog, occasioned by much tobacco; a land of chambers, billiard-rooms, supper-rooms, oysters; a land of song; a land where soda-water flows freely in the morning; a land of...