The Book of the Cheese: Being Traits and Stories of "Ye Olde-Cheshire Cheese", Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.T.F. Unwin, 1901 - 200 Seiten |
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The Book of the Cheese: Being Traits and Stories of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese ... Thomas Wilson Reid,William Hussey Graham,R. R. D. Adams Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2008 |
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ancient Ben Jonson bitter beer Blackfriars Theatre Boswell bottle celebrated century Chancery Lane Charles Charles Dickens cheerful Child's Bank chop City of London club Cock coffee-houses cooked corner cosy customers delightful Dickens dine dinner dish Doctor Douglas Jerrold drink Dunstan's edition English famous Fleet Street floor frequenters friends gates gentlemen George George Augustus Sala Goldsmith goodly fare Gough Square guests hand haunt host hostelry Hounsom Johnsonian kidneys landlord lark pudding look Lord Mayor Majesty Mark Lemon memory Messrs monarch Moore mutton Old Cheshire Cheese old taverns old-fashioned pageants passed pipe plate portrait potatoes present Prince of Wales proprietor punch Queen reign royal rump steak Sala Samuel Johnson Saturday sawdust says Schweppe's served Seymour Lucas side sold stairs Stewed sword Temple Bar Tom Hood visitors waiter walls Westminster whilst Wine Office Court Ye Olde Cheshire
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Seite 10 - ... house, as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more- trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...
Seite 121 - Ah Ben! Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyric feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun, Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
Seite 183 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage, and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once 'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke! Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen,: And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.
Seite 79 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Seite 5 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 19 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Seite 183 - Johnson candidly describes himself as "a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant ; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool ; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning.
Seite 10 - ... should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be ; there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests; the guests are anxious...
Seite 149 - as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call ; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.
Seite 2 - Women,' long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.