 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 - Pàgina 95per Charles Dickens - 1838Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dickens - 1837 - 712 pàgines
...which have escaped alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer, old places they are, with...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 pàgines
...performed their journeys in a graver and more solemn manner than they do in these times ; but which have now degenerated into little more than the abiding...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1838 - 440 pàgines
...which have escaped alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer, old places they are, with...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... | |
 | 1866 - 956 pàgines
...escaped alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private specnlotion. GrWt, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries...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 pàgines
...which have escaped alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries,...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 pàgines
...which have escaped alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries,...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 pàgines
...which have escaped alike the rage for public improvement and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries,...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 pàgines
...which have escaped 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 pàgines
...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 - 822 pàgines
...which have escaped alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer, old places they are, with...furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories, supposing wo should ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity of inventing any, and that the world should exist... | |
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