| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 442 páginas
...court, the Star Chamber, In walking along the street, says Mr. Pennant, in ray youth, on the next side to this prison, I have often been tempted by the question,...be pleased to walk in and be married ?" Along this Jnost lawless space was hung upon the frequent sign. of a male and female hand conjoined, with, " Marriages... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 páginas
...account of this reverend gentleman : — " In walking along the street in my youth, on the side next this prison, I have often been tempted by the question, ' Sir, will you walk in and be married ?' Along this most lawless place was hung up a sign of a male and female hand... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 páginas
...lawyers. Pennant, in his " London," gives an entertaiinng account of this reverend gentleman :—" In walking along the street in my youth, on the side next this prison, I have often been tempted by the question, ' Sir, will you walk in and be married !' Along... | |
| 1822 - 600 páginas
...lawyers. Pennant, in his " London," gives an entertaining account of this reverend gentleman : — " In walking along the street in my youth, on the side next this prison, I have often been tempted by the question, ' Sir, will you walk in and be married ?' Along... | |
| 1822 - 592 páginas
...lawyers. Pemunt, in his " London," gives an entertaining acfinmt of this reverend gentleman : — " In walking along the street in my youth, on the side next this prison, I have often been tempted by the question, ' Sir, will you walk in and be married ?' Along... | |
| Henry Thomas (antiquarian.) - 1830 - 504 páginas
...fortune hunters were enabled to practise through the Fleet clergy and wardens. Mr. Pennant says, " In walking along the street, in my youth, on the side next to this prison, I have often been tempted l>y the question,—" Sir, will you be pleased to walk in and be married ?"' Along this most lawless... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 páginas
...another time ;" and so drove away.' The truthfulness of this description is attested by Pennant : ' In walking along the street, in my youth, on the side next the prison, I have often been tempted by the question : "Sir, will you le pleased to laaut in and be... | |
| 1837 - 650 páginas
...their offices, and committed to Newgate; and the former tried for the murder of one of his prisoner?, by locking him in a dungeon, without any provision,...Sir, will you be pleased to walk in and be married 1 Along this most lawless space was hung up the frequent sign of a male and female hand conjoined,... | |
| John Southerden Burn - 1846 - 164 páginas
...— Daily Post, 1742. In Pennant's History of London, 4to. 1791, 224, the author says of the Fleet, " In walking along the street in my youth on the side...often been tempted by the question, Sir, will you he pleased to walk in and be mar' ried ? Along this most lawless space was hung up the frequent sign... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 páginas
...shillings, any couple that presented themselves. " In walking along the street in my youth," says Pennant, "on the side next to this prison, I have often been...Sir, will you be pleased to walk in and be married f Along this most lawless space was hung up the frequent sign of a male and female hand conjoined,... | |
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