 Borough especially, there still remain some half dozen old inns, which have preserved their external features unchanged, and which have escaped alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer,...  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - Pągina 95per Charles Dickens - 1838Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dickens - 1837 - 716 pągines
...alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer, old places they are, with galleries, and passages,...should ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity of in venting any, and that the world should exist long enough to exhaust the innumerable veracious legends... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1838 - 300 pągines
...alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculations. Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries, and passages...antiquated enough, to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stoties, supposing we should ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity of inventing any, and that... | |
 | 1866 - 956 pągines
...alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private specnlotion. GrWt, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries and passages...enough and antiquated enough to furnish materials for n hundred ghost-stories, supposing we should ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity of inventing... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1849 - 746 pągines
...alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries, and passages,...exhaust the innumerable veracious legends connected with the old London Bridge, and its adjacent neighbourhood on the Surrey side. It was in the yard of one... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1851 - 742 pągines
...alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries, and passages,...exhaust the innumerable veracious legends connected with the old London Bridge, and its adjacent neighbourhood on the Surrey side. It was in the yard of one... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 388 pągines
...alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries, and passages,...exhaust the innumerable veracious legends connected with the old London Bridge, and its adjacent neighbourhood on the Surrey side. It was in the yard of one... | |
 | Surrey Archaeological Society - 1864 - 456 pągines
...alike the rage for public improvement and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries, and passages,...enough to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories It was in the yard of one of these inns — of no less celebrated a one than 'The White Hart' — that... | |
 | 1865 - 550 pągines
...alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries and passages and staircases wide enough i A glance, for instance, at the talile of contents of such a hook as Timbs's Walks and Talks about... | |
 | 1866 - 900 pągines
...the old inns of tk Borough, in his " Pickwick Papers." he says they ore queer places, with galleries, passages, and staircases wide enough and antiquated enough "to furnish materials for a hundred ghoststories, supposing tee should erer IK reduced to the lamentable necestity ot inventing any." How... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 1178 pągines
...improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer, old places they arp, with galleries, and passages, and staircases, wide...connected with old London Bridge, and its adjacent neighborhood on the Surrey side. It was in the yard of one of these inns — of no less celebrated... | |
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