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... 1615 On Christmas last I sang carols with Ellen and her friends, in her London apartment, candlelight on her frosted windows where trees, like men... ...351 Henley Street February 8, 1615 ne year the Thames froze and above London Bridge it became a market, hobbled with ragged booths, stalls, flag... ... how, with our theatre closed, I worked to aid the sick and cart away the London dead. Appleton...I remember his red beard, his cough, his scared gr... ...sh, blamed us, saying “there’s narra a plague in Ireland—it’s your filthy London—you damn filthy foreigners!” Miller cursed the altar and the saints... ... Grey yelping dogs chase a coach through London fog: Fog drips from coach lamps, from trees, iron railings. Some... ... wants new gloves, new hood, new leash... What’s past is prologue: At Blackfriars, the chandeliers of candles are hugely lit and light streams up... ...me, barns, stables, orchards, gardens, lands, tenements...my new house in Blackfriars. To Ben Jonson—fifty pounds and this journal. Short-changed ag...

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...t: Chapter 1. The Boarding-House. Mrs. Tibbs was, beyond all dispute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker,...

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...t tidy, fidg- ety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Grea... ...s Rampart; and one day, when we were exercising on the ground on which the London University now stands, he says, says he, Tibbs (calling me from the ... ...erful as his love of life. Mr. Augustus Minns had no relations, in or near London, with the exception of his cousin, Mr. Octavius Budden, to whose son... ... street on the Surrey side of the water, within three minutes’ walk of old London Bridge, Mr. Joseph Tuggs—a little dark-faced man, with shiny hair, t... ...tra, by a fat man in black tights and cloudy Berlins. ‘Mrs. Tippin, of the London theatres, ’ replied Belinda, referring to the programme of the conce... ...re of one of the fourteen boys who had followed him from the other side of Blackfriars-bridge on the chance of his requiring their services, Mr. Gabri...

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...nto the taproom. That sobered him a little; and when he saw Henderson, the London jour- nalist, in his garden, he called over the palings and made him... ...n went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London. The newspaper ar- ticles had prepared men’s minds for the reception... ...al- tered very much. The early editions of the evening papers had startled London with enormous headlines: “A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM MARS.” “REMARKABLE... ...ord Hilton at his house, but I was told he was 15 H G Wells expected from London by the six o’clock train from Water- loo; and as it was then about a... ... unless it were some relation of Stent or of the three or four cyclists or London people lying dead on the common, whose emotions or habits were at al... ...ning remnant of a cloud of the black vapour appeared between the arches of Blackfriars Bridge. At that the Pool became a scene of mad confusion, fight...

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...e *John Sterling’s Essays and Tales, with Life by Archdeacon Hare. Parker; London, 1848. 5 Thomas Carlyle Church. But he was a man, and had relation ... ...ch controversy Colonel Robert, after repeated applications, journeyings to London, attendances upon committees, and such like, finds himself worsted, ... ...s his title was, who in the latter period of his life became well known in London political society, whom indeed all England, with a curious mixture o... ...s wayfarings. 15 Thomas Carlyle CHAPTER III SCHOOLS: LLANBLETHIAN; PARIS; LONDON Edward Sterling never shone in farming; indeed I believe he never to... ...vement and rapid field-labor, alternated with sudden flights to Dublin, to London, whithersoever any flush of bright out- look which he could denomina... ...e or thrice to new streets or localities,— Russell Square or Queen Square, Blackfriars Road, and long- est at the Grove, Blackheath,— before the vapor... ...h year (John being now nine). (2.) Elizabeth died, 12th March, 1818, at Blackfriars Road, in her second year. (3.) Edward, 30th March, 1818 (sam...

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...uel, have been the most dutiful and affectionate to me. Y our employers in London give the best accounts of your regu- larity and good conduct. Though... ...or the new setting of the diamond; desiring me to take it on my arrival in London to the great jeweller, Mr. Polonius, and send her the bill. “The fac... ... at four, and at five came the “True Blue” light six-inside post- coach to London, and I got up on the roof without having seen Mary Smith. As we pass... ...ght before. 9 Thackeray CHAPTER II TELLS HOW THE DIAMOND IS BROUGHT UP TO LONDON, AND PRO- DUCES WONDERFUL EFFECTS BOTH IN THE CITY AND AT THE WEST E... ..., when, as the reader may remember, there was a great mania in the City of London for establishing companies of all sorts; by which many people made p... ...rgot all about the prison and the rules, and walked a long long way across Blackfriars Bridge, the kind fellow striving as much as possible to console...

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... most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who c... ...at visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who c... ...at visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before I t was about the beginning of September, ... ...le travelling, and that the towns on the road would not suffer people from London to pass for fear of bringing the infection along with them, though n... ...one at Billingsgate, one at Queenhith, and one at the Three Cranes; one in Blackfriars, and one at the gate of Bridewell; one at the corner of Leadenh...

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...ty of getting into the shafts himself, and drawing the cart of crockery to London—a somewhat exhaust ing pull of thirty miles. That he did not ventur... ...eprinted Pieces mally it afterwards appeared), and I presented myself at a London Police Office with my testimony against him. The Magistrate was wond... ...ls that story, in his own vivacious way, of his travelling to Fulham, near London, to buy all these hun dreds and hundreds of trees you now see upon ... ...them to contain more bores from the shores of Albion than all the clubs in London. As you walk timidly in their neighbourhood, the very neckcloths and... ...en hun dred and eighty. My father stuck bills at the time of the riots of London.’ ‘You must be acquainted with the whole subject of bill sticking, ... ...own the Waterloo Road, through Stam ford Street, and round to the foot of Blackfriars Bridge, where the Cove ‘cut into’ a public house. How Waterloo ... ...ting down our black highway, sullenly frowned upon by the knitted brows of Blackfriars, Southwark, and London, each in his lowering turn, I was shown ...

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...ss, she married Godfrey Marayne, afterwards Sir Godfrey Marayne, the great London surgeon. Nolan was a dark, rather melancholy and sentimental young m... .... With this and a husband already distinguished, she returned presently to London, and was on the whole fairly well received there. It was upon the re... ...windling capital upon a science labo- ratory and a fives court; he added a London Bachelor of Sci- ence with a Teaching Diploma to the school staff, a... ... to that spirit of distracting impulse and in- subordination away there in London, who had once been his delight and insurmountable difficulty. “After... ...er’s affection for him blossomed into a passion. She made him come down to London from Cambridge as often as she could; she went about with him; she m... ... those days so largely the Englishman’s Asia. And when you turned about at Blackfriars Bridge this sense of the round world was so upon you that you f...

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...ss, the cross and the money-changers’ offices, the splendid grime of giant London and the crowds going perpetually to and fro, the lights by night and... ...inctly my father rejoicing at the break- fast-table over the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of ... ...ere also School Boards; I was already practically in poli- tics before the London School Board was absorbed by the spreading tentacles of the London C... ...istory. It is the quality and history of a thousand places round and about London, and round and about the other great centres of population in the wo... ..., as a narrow irregular little street of thatched houses strung out on the London and Dover Road, a little mellow sample unit of a social order that h... ... It was at one of the weekly dinners of that Fleet Street dining club, the Blackfriars. I heard the paper’s name with a queer little shock and sur- ve...

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...harles Dickens 15 Roman possessions waste; they forced the Ro mans out of London, then a poor little town, but a trading place; they hanged, burnt, c... ...Canterbury. Sebert, the King’s nephew, built on a muddy marshy place near London, where there had been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Sain... ...a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the foundation of a temple to Diana, he built an other l... ...d not protect them, that they welcomed Sweyn on all sides, as a deliverer. London faithfully stood out, as long as the King was within its walls; but,... ...the alarm. The Norman Archbishop of Can terbury, and the Norman Bishop of London, surrounded by their retainers, fought their way out of London, and ... ...at council in London between the two parties. The White Roses assembled in Blackfriars, the Red Roses in Whitefriars; and some good priests communicat...

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...ake friends with the captain of a decayed cargo-steamer, who landed him in London with fewer pounds in his pocket than he cared to think about. A thin... ... Nor is it cheering to begin the experiment alone in all the loneliness of London. Dick paid seven shil- lings a week for his lodging, which left him ... ... to take counsel with 41 Rudyard Kipling himself in the rapidly gathering London fog. Half an hour after he had left, the Nilghai laboured up the sta... ...ng studio in Vitry-sur-Marne. I work with him in the summer, and I live in London in the winter. I’m a householder.’ ‘Do you sell much?’ ‘Now and agai... ...a moment. The fog was gathering, and it stifled the roar of the traffic of London beyond the railings. Dick brought all his painfully acquired knowled... ...ey kept to the river, and the rush of it was in his ears till they came to Blackfriars Bridge and struck thence on to the 174 The Light That Failed W...

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...n the bloom of his youth, when he was discovered in a modest retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He had from the first, as Sir... ...pon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London— measuring from the Standard in Cornhill,’ or rather from the spot o... ... near the fire, and looking round for sympathy. ‘He has set off to walk to London,—all the way to London. His nag gone lame in riding out here this bl... ...left this place when his lady died, feeling it lonely like, and went up to London, where he stopped some months; but finding that place as lonely as t... ...is but a hack hired from a roadside posting house, but he must carry me to London to night.’ ‘To night!’ said Joe. ‘To night,’ returned the other. ‘Wh... ...kind of staff about him. The conduct of a second party, whose route lay by Blackfriars, was entrusted to a com 375 Charles Dickens mittee of managem... ...better where they were. He advised, therefore, that they should proceed to Blackfriars, and, going ashore at the bridge, make the best of their way to... .... Barnaby assenting, they decided on this course of action, and pulled for Blackfriars accordingly. They landed at a critical time, and fortunately fo... ... headed two attacks upon the Bank, helped to break open the Toll houses on Blackfriars Bridge, and cast the money into the street: fired two of the pr...

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...likely be some English, and so there was. “There!” said I. “Look at that! ‘London: Printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society, Blackfriars,’ an... ...“Look at that! ‘London: Printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society, Blackfriars,’ and the date, which I can’t read, owing to its being in these... ...ng in these X’s. There’s no devil in hell can look near the Bible Society’ Blackfriars. Why, you silly!” I said, “how do you suppose we get along with... ...tural in Kanakas. She’s turned a powerful big woman now, and could throw a London bobby over her shoulder. But that’s natural in Kanakas too, and ther...

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... it is Swidger, by rights. Let ‘em call her Swidge, Widge, Bridge — Lord! London Bridge, Blackfriars, Chelsea, Putney, Waterloo, or Hammersmith Suspe... ..., by rights. Let ‘em call her Swidge, Widge, Bridge — Lord! London Bridge, Blackfriars, Chelsea, Putney, Waterloo, or Hammersmith Suspension — if they... ... a little about medicine, sir, it seems; and having been wayfaring towards London with my unhappy brother that you see here,” Mr. William passed his c...

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...have fallen on these leaves of David Copperfield, and made me happy. London, October, 1850. PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION I REMARKED IN... ...knee, which would have lasted us out hand- somely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance. We ate a good deal, and slept a good deal. P... ... in, or some annual charge upon the profits of, a wine-merchant s house in London, with which his family had been connected from his great- grandfathe... ... Peggotty dear? Do you know? 76 David Copperfield Vol. I School. Near London, was Peggotty s answer. I was obliged to get her to repeat it, for ... ...the carrier. There, I said. Where s there? inquired the carrier. Near London, I said. Why that horse, said the carrier, jerking the rein to po... ...nby. Murdstone and Grinby s warehouse was at the waterside. It was down in Blackfriars. Modern improvements have altered the place; but it was the las... ...s on the opposite wall. As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones... ...an with a very little empty donkey-cart, standing near the Obelisk, in the Blackfriars Road, whose eye I caught as I was going by, and who, addressing...

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...welt upon the romantic side of familiar things. 1853 CHAPTER I In Chancery LONDON. M ICHAELMAS TERM lately over, and the Lord Chancel lor sitting in... ...h from Reading, on Monday morning next, to White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, London, where one of our clks will be in waiting to convey you to our offe ... ...nd when I had cooled my eyes with lavender water, it was time to watch for London. I was quite persuaded that we were there when we were ten miles off... ...scarcely anything was to be seen. “Oh, dear no, miss,” he said. “This is a London particular.” I had never heard of such a thing. “A fog, miss,” said ... ...can’t say I know where it is, for I come from Winchester and am strange in London.” “Only round the corner,” said Mr. Guppy. “We just twist up Chancer... ...f supper in the oil trade. Jo moves on, through the long vacation, down to Blackfriars Bridge, where he finds a bak ing stony corner wherein to settl... ... Hanging Sword Alley, which would seem to be something in his way), and by Blackfriars Bridge, and Blackfriars Road, Mr. George sedately marches to a ...

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...and how her ap- pearance would change by degrees, and how she would fly to London, and how Katharine would have to lead her about, as one leads an eag... ...s. Have they ALL disappeared? I told her she would find the nice things of London without the horrid 6 Night and Day streets that depress one so.” “T... ...ry different people who were now making their way, by divers paths, across London to the spot where she was sitting. As she ran her needle in and out ... ...erged, not so very long ago, in the won- 39 Virginia Woolf derful maze of London, which still seemed to her, in spite of her constitutional level-hea... ...hile Mary took up her stocking again. “I suppose you are the only woman in London who darns her own stockings,” he observed. “I’m only one of a great ... ...d? Here she was, suggesting that all three of them should go on a jaunt to Blackfriars to inspect the site of Shakespeare’s theater, for the weather w... ...ent, seemed to Katharine to have reference to Ralph Denham. “On his way to Blackfriars, I mean,” Mrs. Hilbery con- tinued, “for you know the latest di...

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... State with Euclid, with Bellefontaine, and with Sandusky. Chelsea, with its London associations of red brick, Sloane Square, and the King’s Road, is ... ...e while with consolations – we two were alone in all that was visible of the London Road: two poor waifs who had each tasted sorrow – and she fawned u... ...ed a certain journey, and the reader owes the present paper, to a cat in the London Road. It was judged, if I had thus brimmed over on the public high... ...lollipops; another shop with penny pickwicks (that remarkable cigar) and the London Journal, dear to me for its startling pictures, and a few novels, ... ...ly pretermit these questionings, and take my place instead in the pit at the Blackfriars, to hear the actor in his favourite part, playing up to Mr. B...

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...welt upon the romantic side of familiar things. 1853 CHAPTER I In Chancery LONDON. M ICHAELMAS TERM lately over, and the Lord Chancel lor sitting in... ...h from Reading, on Monday morning next, to White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, London, where one of our clks will be in waiting to convey you to our offe ... ...nd when I had cooled my eyes with lavender water, it was time to watch for London. I was quite persuaded that we were there when we were ten miles off... ...scarcely anything was to be seen. “Oh, dear no, miss,” he said. “This is a London particular.” I had never heard of such a thing. “A fog, miss,” said ... ...can’t say I know where it is, for I come from Winchester and am strange in London.” “Only round the corner,” said Mr. Guppy. “We just twist up Chancer... ...f supper in the oil trade. Jo moves on, through the long vacation, down to Blackfriars Bridge, where he finds a bak ing stony corner wherein to settl... ... Hanging Sword Alley, which would seem to be something in his way), and by Blackfriars Bridge, and Blackfriars Road, Mr. George sedately marches to a ...

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...t; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was. My old nurse was to go to London with me next day, on the business of the will. Little Emily was pass... ... when I asked him where he would seek her, and inquired if I were going to London tomorrow? I told him I had not gone today, fearing to lose the chanc... ...as strange led to my suspecting something wrong. I got into the coach from London last night, as it came through Nor- David Copperfield Vol. II 44 ... ...e never allowed. Mr. Peggotty had made a communication to me on the way to London for which I was not unprepared. It was, that he purposed first see- ... ...im, that having now discharged his mind of what he had pur- posed doing in London, he meant to set out on his travels , that night. I asked him where... ...h would have made his figure solitary in a multitude. We were not far from Blackfriars Bridge, when he turned his head and pointed to a solitary femal...

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... he compared the Rialto, greatly to its disadvantage, with Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges. I need not add, after what you have said, that I have ... ...hy, you see,’ said Fanny, with a frank action of her pretty shoulders, ‘in London one knows every one. We met her on our way here, and, to say the tru... ...use at Brighton, and being, of course, unable, don’t you see, to remain in London when there wasn’t a soul there, and not feeling herself this year qu... ... herself. She is somebody’s child—anybody’s—nobody’s. Put her in a room in London here with any six people old enough to be her parents, and her paren... ...The gentleman is acquainted with Flintwinch; and when the gentleman was in London last, I remember to have heard that he and Flintwinch had some en- t... ... and there are no plans for our return. My dear father talks of a visit to London late in this next spring, on some affairs connected with the prop- e...

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... Shakespear gave me great delight. To those who know the literary world of London there was a sharp stroke of ironic comedy in the irresistible verdic... ...s. ELIZABETH. Why, sir, are there not theatres enow on the Bankside and in Blackfriars? SHAKESPEAR. Madam: these are the adventures of needy and despe... ...ayhouse a public charge; and there be a thousand things to be done in this London of mine before your poetry can have its penny from the general purse... ...lly: she to her chamber: he, in custody of the warder, to the gate nearest Blackfriars. T o return to the Electronic Classics Series site, go to http:...

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...g for booksellers. They had removed from some country place and settled in London; partly because it afforded better chances of employment for the boy... ...S CHAPTER I—THE STREETS—MORNING THE APPEARANCE PRESENTED by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer’s morning, is most striking even... ...in happy oblivion, his long-cherished curiosity to be- hold the wonders of London. Rough, sleepy-looking animals of strange appearance, something betw... ... These and a hundred other sounds form a compound discor- dant enough to a Londoner’s ears, and remarkably dis- agreeable to those of country gentleme... ... noon. 55 Charles Dickens CHAPTER II—THE STREETS—NIGHT BUT THE STREETS of London, to be beheld in the very height of their glory, should be seen on a... ... havens, often sought though seldom reached; but from the ‘Red-us’ back to Blackfriars-bridge, the scene is won- derfully changed. The Penitentiary is...

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...ached their height. Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate? Whether Miss Havisham, pr... ...he discovery of the assailant. The Constables, and the Bow Street men from London – for, this happened in the days of the extinct red-waistcoated poli... ...he way shall be prepared for you, and you can see his son first, who is in London. When will you come to London?” I said (glancing at Joe, who stood l... ...the mean- time. Y ou can take a hackney-coach at the stage-coach office in London, and come straight to me. Understand, that I ex- press no opinion, o... ... I could not divest myself of a misgiving that something might hap- pen to London in the meanwhile, and that, when I got there, it would be either gre... ... high as Chelsea Reach. Let’s see; there’ s Lon- don, one; Southwark, two; Blackfriars, three; W aterloo, four; Westminster, five; Vauxhall, six.” He ... ...k much note of me after I had been out a few times. At first, I kept above Blackfriars Bridge; but as the hours of the tide changed, I took towards Lo...

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...g for booksellers. They had removed from some country place and settled in London; partly because it afforded better chances of employment for the boy... ...S CHAPTER I—THE STREETS—MORNING THE APPEARANCE PRESENTED by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer’s morning, is most striking even... ...in happy oblivion, his long-cherished curiosity to be- hold the wonders of London. Rough, sleepy-looking animals of strange appearance, something betw... ... These and a hundred other sounds form a compound discor- dant enough to a Londoner’s ears, and remarkably dis- agreeable to those of country gentleme... ... noon. 55 Charles Dickens CHAPTER II—THE STREETS—NIGHT BUT THE STREETS of London, to be beheld in the very height of their glory, should be seen on a... ... havens, often sought though seldom reached; but from the ‘Red-us’ back to Blackfriars-bridge, the scene is won- derfully changed. The Penitentiary is... ...re of one of the fourteen boys who had followed him from the other side of Blackfriars-bridge on the chance of his requiring their services, Mr. Gabri...

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... between us, I add to this Preface, as I added to that, May we meet again! London May 1857 6 Charles Dickens BOOK THE FIRST POVERTY CHAPTER 1 Sun and... ...Pet to church at the Foundling—you have heard of the Foundling Hospital in London? Similar to the Institution for the Found Children in Paris?’ ‘I hav... ... me—if you’ll excuse my freedom in saying so—that you don’t go straight to London,’ said Mr Meagles, in the tone of a confidential adviser. ‘Perhaps I... ...through the pilgrimage of life. CHAPTER 3 Home IT WA S A SUNDAY evening in London, gloomy, close, and stale. Maddening church bells of all degrees of ... ...es; the Plagues of Egypt, much the dimmer for the fly and smoke plagues of London, were framed and glazed upon the walls. There was the old cellaret w... ...t him down at the Marshalsea Gate, and they drove in that di- rection over Blackfriars Bridge. On the way, Arthur elicited from his new friend a confu... ... he compared the Rialto, greatly to its disadvantage, with Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges. I need not add, after what you have said, that I have ...

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... between us, I add to this Preface, as I added to that, May we meet again! London May 1857 6 Charles Dickens BOOK THE FIRST POVERTY CHAPTER 1 Sun and... ...Pet to church at the Foundling—you have heard of the Foundling Hospital in London? Similar to the Institution for the Found Children in Paris?’ ‘I hav... ... me—if you’ll excuse my freedom in saying so—that you don’t go straight to London,’ said Mr Meagles, in the tone of a confidential adviser. ‘Perhaps I... ...through the pilgrimage of life. CHAPTER 3 Home IT WA S A SUNDAY evening in London, gloomy, close, and stale. Maddening church bells of all degrees of ... ...es; the Plagues of Egypt, much the dimmer for the fly and smoke plagues of London, were framed and glazed upon the walls. There was the old cellaret w... ...t him down at the Marshalsea Gate, and they drove in that di- rection over Blackfriars Bridge. On the way, Arthur elicited from his new friend a confu...