Category: History - British
The Roman Temple of Diana: the first Christian Church -- Old St. Paul's -- Inigo Jones's Portico -- Strange Usages of former Times -- Encroachments on the Fabric of the Cathedral -- Paul's Walkers -- Dining with Duke Humphrey -- Catholic Customs -- The Boy-Bishop The Children...
Ancient State of the Strand -- Butcher Row -- Death of Lee, the dramatic Poet -- Johnson at an Eating-House -- Essex Street -- House and History of the favourite Earl of Essex -...
23. CHAPTER VIII.Bow Street once the Bond Street of London -- Fashions at that time -- Infamous frolic of Sir Charles Sedley and others -- Wycherly and the Countess of Drogheda -- Tonson the Boo...
16. CHAPTER III.Burning of the Pope -- St. Bride's Steeple -- Milton -- Illuminated Clock -- Melancholy End of Lovelace the Cavalier -- Chatterton -- Generosity of Hardham, of Snuff Celebrity -...
21. CHAPTER VII.Craven House -- Donne and his vision -- Lord Craven and the Queen of Bohemia -- Nell Gwynn -- Drury Lane Theatre -- Its antiquity, different eras, and rebuildings -- The princip...
18. CHAPTER V.Lincoln's Inn -- Ben Jonson's Bricklaying -- Enactments against Beards -- Oliver Cromwell, More, Hale, and other eminent Students of Lincoln's Inn -- Lincoln's Inn Fields, or Sq...
26. CHAPTER XI.Henry the Eighth -- His Person and Character -- Modern Qualifications of it considered -- Passages respecting him from Lingard, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and others -- His additions to...
24. CHAPTER IX.Old Charing Cross, and New St. Martin's Church -- Statue of Charles I. -- Execution of Regicides -- Ben Jonson -- Wallingford House, now the Admiralty -- Villiers, Duke of Bucki...
14. CHAPTER II.The Church of St. Faith -- Booksellers of the Churchyard -- Mr. Johnson's -- Mr. Newberry's -- Children's Books -- Clerical Names of Streets near St. Paul's -- Swift at the top...
13. CHAPTER I.The Roman Temple of Diana -- The first Christian Church -- Old St. Paul's -- Inigo Jones's Portico -- Strange Usages of Former Times -- Encroachments on the Fabric of the Cathed...
19. CHAPTER VI.Great Queen Street -- Former fashionable Houses there -- Lewis and Miss Pope, the Comedians -- Martin Folkes -- Sir Godfrey Kneller and his Vanity -- Dr. Radcliffe -- Lord Herbe...
12. CHAPTER XII.St. James's Park and its Associations -- Unhealthiness of the Place and Neighbourhood -- Leper Hospital of St. James -- Henry the Eighth builds St. James's Palace and the Tilt-Y...
27. CHAPTER XII.St. James's Park and its associations. -- Unhealthiness of the Place and neighbourhood. -- Leper Hospital of St. James. -- Henry the Eighth builds St. James's Palace and the Til...
25. CHAPTER X.Regal Character of Whitehall -- York Place -- Personal and Moral Character of Wolsey -- Comparison of him with his Master, Henry -- His Pomp and Popularity -- Humorous Account o...
22. civil. An actor has surely as much right to do absurd things as a"In person taller than the common size, Behold where Barry draws admiring eyes; When lab'ring passions in his bosom pent, Convulsive rage, and struggling heave for vent, Spectat...
20. Book iii., v. 199.A contemporary journalist, who says that the fame of Henley induced him to be present at one of the lectures in Newport Market, describes him as entering like a harlequin by a d...
15. Letter vi., p. 43.[55] The genius of Clarke, which, agreeably to his unhappy end, was tender and melancholy, was unsuited to the livelier intoxication of Dryden's feast, afterwards gloriously set...
4. CHAPTER IV.Ancient State of the Strand -- Butcher Row -- Death of Lee, the dramatic Poet -- Johnson at an Eating-House -- Essex Street -- House and History of the favourite Earl of Essex -...
7. CHAPTER VII.Craven House -- Donne and his vision -- Lord Craven and the Queen of Bohemia -- Nell Gwynn -- Drury Lane Theatre -- Its antiquity, different eras, and rebuildings -- The princip...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Bow Street once the Bond Street of London -- Fashions at that time -- Infamous frolic of Sir Charles Sedley and others -- Wycherly and the Countess of Drogheda -- Tonson the Boo...
3. CHAPTER III.Burning of the Pope -- St. Bride's Steeple -- Milton -- Illuminated Clock -- Melancholy End of Lovelace the Cavalier -- Chatterton -- Generosity of Hardham, of Snuff Celebrity -...
6. CHAPTER VI.Great Queen Street -- Former fashionable Houses there -- Lewis and Miss Pope, the Comedians -- Martin Folkes -- Sir Godfrey Kneller and his Vanity -- Dr. Radcliffe -- Lord Herbe...
1. CHAPTER I.The Roman Temple of Diana: the first Christian Church -- Old St. Paul's -- Inigo Jones's Portico -- Strange Usages of former Times -- Encroachments on the Fabric of the Cathedra...
2. CHAPTER II.The Church of St. Faith -- Booksellers of the Churchyard -- Mr. Johnson's -- Mr. Newberry's -- Children's Books -- Clerical Names of Streets near St. Paul's -- Swift at the top...
9. CHAPTER IX.Old Charing Cross, and New St. Martin's Church -- Statue of Charles I. -- Execution of Regicides -- Ben Jonson -- Wallingford House, now the Admiralty -- Villiers, Duke of Bucki...
11. CHAPTER XI.Henry the Eighth -- His Person and Character -- Modern Qualifications of it considered -- Passages respecting him from Lingard, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and others -- His additions to...
5. CHAPTER V.Lincoln's Inn -- Ben Jonson's Bricklaying -- Enactments against Beards -- Oliver Cromwell, More, Hale, and other eminent Students of Lincoln's Inn -- Lincoln's Inn Fields, or Sq...
10. CHAPTER X.Regal Character of Whitehall -- York Place -- Personal and Moral Character of Wolsey -- Comparison of him with his Master, Henry -- His Pomp and Popularity -- Humorous Account o...