 | David Hughson - 1805 - 710 pages
...perspective: and where the garrets, (perhaps not for want of architecture, but through abundance of amity) are so made, that opposite neighbours may shake hands...Is unanimity of inhabitants in wise cities better exprest than by their coherence and uniformity of building ; where streets begin, continue and end,... | |
 | David Hughson - 1805 - 702 pages
...perspective : and where the garrets, (perhaps not for want of architecture, but through abundance of amity) are so made, that opposite neighbours may shake hands...Is unanimity of inhabitants in wise cities better exprest than by their coherence and uniformity of building; where streets begin, continue and end,... | |
 | 1808 - 606 pages
...air, lest it should sharpen your stomach» ? Oh the goodly landscape of old Fish-street ! The garret» are so made, that opposite neighbours may shake hands without stirring from home/ In this picture of the capital, Sir William Davenant noticei with a merited severity of.reproof, the... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - 1814 - 936 pages
...shake hands without stirriuj; from hone. Is unanimity of inhabitants in wise cities better expreat than by their coherence and uniformity of building...streets begin, continue, and end, in a like stature and thape ? But yours, as if they were raised in a general insurrection, where every' mail hath a several... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1814 - 924 pages
...where the garrets, perhaps not for want of architecture, but through abundance of amity, are so narrow, that opposite neighbours may shake hands without stirring...Is unanimity of inhabitants in wise cities better exprest than by their coherence and uniformity of building ; where street! begin, continue, and end,... | |
 | 1814 - 1004 pages
...where the garrets, perhaps not for want of architecture, but through abundance of amity, are so narrow, that opposite neighbours may shake hands without stirring from home. Is unanimity of inhahitants in wise cities better exprcst than by their coherence and uniformity of building . where... | |
 | Samuel-Egerton Brydges - 1814 - 700 pages
...perspective : and where the garrets (perhaps not for want of architecture, but through abundance of amity) are so made, that opposite neighbours may shake hands without stirring from home. •• You would think me a malicious traveller, if I should still gaze on your mishapen streets, and... | |
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...where the garrets, perhaps not for want of architecture, but through abundance of amity, are so narrow, that opposite neighbours may shake hands without stirring from home. Is unanimity of inhabitants in wide cities better expressed than by their coherence and uniformity of building, where streets begin,... | |
 | William Henry Pyne - 1824 - 686 pages
...ill-luck to be crooked, was narrow enough to have been your founder's perspective; and where the garrets are so made, that opposite neighbours may shake hands without stirring from home. ***** Here stands one (house) that aims to be a palace, and next it another that professes to be a... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 388 pages
...days of wheel-harrows, before those greater engines, carts, were invented ;" and that " the garrets are so made, that opposite neighbours may shake hands, without stirring from home." When the city came to be rebuilt, after the great fire, the government very properly interposed its... | |
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Street, which, had it not had the ill luck to be crooked, was narrow enough to have been your founder's perspective ! And where the garrets, (perhaps not for want of architecture, but through abundance of amity) are so made, that opposite neighbours may... 
