 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 Seiten
...meadows around London. The 7th of June, writes Pepys, was "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 red cross upon the doors was too familiar to the elder population of London. In 1636, of twenty-three... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 438 Seiten
...find the following graphic record : — "June 7th. — The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane...saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chew, which took away the apprehension."... | |
 | Alfred Waites - 1887 - 104 Seiten
...This day, much againft my will, I did in Drury Lane fee two or three houfes marked with a red crofs upon the doors, and 'Lord Have mercy upon us!' writ there; which was a fad fight to me, being the firft of the kind to my remembrance I ever faw. It put me into an ill conception... | |
 | John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.) - 1888 - 552 Seiten
...concerning those matters."2 Pepys writes: "The jth of June was the hottest day that I ever felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane...the first of the kind that to my remembrance I- ever saw."3 "The pestilence spread rapidly. The great heat of the air, the impure water, the gutters black... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1889 - 344 Seiten
...and that being done, to bring it to an end shortly. 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. 8th. I to my Lord Treasurer's by appointment of Sir Thomas Ingram's, to meet the Goldsmiths ; where... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 Seiten
...felt in my life. This day, much against my wish, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses markt with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord, have...first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw.' Up to this time it was out of the city, but on June I0 he hears that the plague has come into the city.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 360 Seiten
...June 7th was the hottest day he had ever felt in his life. And then he adds the words of ill omen : " This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane...mercy upon us ' writ there ; which was a sad sight for me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." Not that the red cross was... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 462 Seiten
...describing the beginning of the plague: " The 7th of June, 1665, was the hottest day I ever 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 door, and ' Lord have mercy upon us ' writ there, which was a sad sight."... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 594 Seiten
...5, 1628. Drury Lane was one of the earliest places visited by the plague of 1665. June 7, 1665. — This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane...first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. — Pepys. Somewhat later Pepys has an entry respecting Drury Lane of a different order : — May I,... | |
 | Rose Fuller Whistler - 1892 - 198 Seiten
...dreadful prospect." Pepys writes more fully : June 7, 1665. "The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane...doors, and ' Lord, have mercy upon us ' writ there ; a sad sight, being the first of the kind I ever saw." June 21. "I find all the town almost going... | |
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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 the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first... 
