Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn. It is one of those nooks, the turning into which out of the clashing street, imparts to the relieved pedestrian the sensation of having put cotton... In the Year of Jubilee - Página 449por George Gissing - 1976 - 457 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Dickens - 1881 - 1026 páginas
...still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular...those nooks where a few smoky sparrows twitter in arnoky trees, as though they called to one another, "Let us play at country,'1 and where a few feet... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 páginas
...Chancery, London. It became such in the reign of Henry V. 83F " Behind the most ancient part of Holborn ... is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles...having put cotton in his ears, and velvet soles on his hoots." Dickens. K3T " I went astray in Holborn through an arched entrance over which was ' Staple... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1882 - 608 páginas
...London. It became such in the reign of Henry V. Jfg- " Behind the most ancient part of Holborn ... is a little nook composed of two Irregular quadrangles called Staple Inn. It is one of thoso nooks, the turning Into which out of the clashing street Imparts to the relieved pedestrian the... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1885 - 860 páginas
...still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular...clashing street imparts to the relieved pedestrian the sens* tion of having put cotton in his ears and velvet soles on his boots. It is one of those nooks... | |
| Charles A. Gillig - 1886 - 224 páginas
...looking on the public way, as if disconsolatory, looking for the old bourne that has long since ran dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles called STAPLE INN." Mr. Grewgious had a set of chambers in a comer house, bearing the mysterious inscription P JT 1747.... | |
| John Lawson Stoddard - 1898 - 358 páginas
...INNER TEMPLE. Dickens described this -i--dtf perfectly when he said of Staple Inn: "It is one of these nooks, the turning into which out of the clashing...cotton in his ears and velvet soles on his boots." Some of these islands in a sea of sound are picturesque, quaint areas, where lawyers have had chambers... | |
| John Lawson Stoddard - 1898 - 348 páginas
...effect is delightful. Dickens described this perfectly when he said of Staple Inn : " It is one of these nooks, the turning into which out of the clashing...cotton in his ears and velvet soles on his boots." Some of these islands in a sea of THE MIDDLE TEMPLE. 33 sound are picturesque, quaint areas, where... | |
| John Lawson Stoddard - 1898 - 344 páginas
...MIDDLE TEMTLK. Dickens described this V-jiM perfectly when he said of Staple Inn: " It is one of these nooks, the turning into which out of the clashing...cotton in his ears and velvet soles on his boots." Some of these islands in a sea of sound are picturesque, quaint areas, where lawyers have had chambers... | |
| Charles A. Gillig - 1900 - 274 páginas
...stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolatory, looking for the old bourn that has long since run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles called STAPLE INN," Mr. Grewgious had a set of chambers in a corner house, bearing the mysterious inscription P JT 1747At... | |
| Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 542 páginas
...Holborn, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking out on the public way. ... is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles,...turning into which out of the clashing street imparts to 1he relieved pedestrian the sensation of having put cotton in his ears and velvet soles on his boots.... | |
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