| J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 422 σελίδες
...and finely marked they are, being foreign. " June 7th. The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane...first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." The account of the plague is not so historical as we have elsewhere read it ; but it is full of authentic... | |
| 1833 - 448 σελίδες
...hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did, in Drury-lane, ee« two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...have mercy upon us ' writ there ; which was a sad eight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw." Ten days after this... | |
| Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1835 - 440 σελίδες
...The hottest clay that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did see in Drury-lane two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...there, which was a sad sight to me, being the first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." : June 17 — " It struck me very deep this afternoon,... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 σελίδες
...7. The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury-Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon...first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. — 'To St. James's, and did our usual business before the Duke of York; which signified little, our... | |
| 1856 - 1026 σελίδες
...at the time the plague was beginning to rage. " June 7, the hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon usf writ there ; which was a sad sight... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 σελίδες
...at the time the plague was beginning to rage. " June 7, the hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane...houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and Lyd have mercy on us ! ' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me." Again, on the 17th of the same... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 σελίδες
...houses are already shut up. God preserve us all ! May 7th. The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane...first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. July 12th. A solemn fest-day for the plague growing upon us. 13th. Above 700 died of the plague this... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 σελίδες
...June, — which he speaks of as " the hottest day that ever I felt in my life," he says in his "Diary," "This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane...doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us' writ there." Two years * Aubrey's " Letters of Eminent Men." afterward, when Pepys was passing through Drury Lane,... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 466 σελίδες
...pleasantly walking, and spending but Qd. till nine at night. The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane...first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco... | |
| London - 1851 - 200 σελίδες
..."the hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did see in Drury-lane two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...there, which was a sad sight to me, being the first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." Again, on the 17th of June : " It struck me very deep... | |
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