 | J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...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...; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." The account of the plague is not so historical as we have... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1833 - 448 pages
...hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did, in Drury-lane, ee« two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...have mercy upon us ' writ there ; which was a sad eight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw." Ten days after this... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - World history - 1835 - 750 pages
...already, they found one or two in the bills dead of the plague at St. Giles's*." PEPYS. June 7 — " The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This...first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." June 17 — " It struck me very deep this afternoon, going with a hackney-coach down Holborn, from... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1835 - 440 pages
...found one or two in the bills dead of the plague at St. Giles's*." PEPYS. June 7 — " The hottest clay that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against...first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." : June 17 — " It struck me very deep this afternoon, going with a hackney-coach down Holborn, from... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1835 - 442 pages
...bills dead of the plague at St. Giles's*." PEPYS. June 7 — " The hottest day that ever I felt in jny life. This day, much against my will, I did see in...first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." June 17 — " It struck me very deep this afternoon, poing with a hackney-coach down Holborn, from... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...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...; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. — 'To St. James's, and did our usual business before... | |
 | Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...ever I 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 doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon usf writ there ; which was a sad sight to me." Again, on the 17th of the same month, Pepys writes,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...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 Lyd have mercy on us ! ' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me." Again, on the 17th of the same... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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...; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. July 12th. A solemn fest-day for the plague growing upon... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...felt in my life," he says in his "Diary," "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." Two years * Aubrey's " Letters of Eminent Men." afterward, when Pepys was passing through Drury Lane,... | |
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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 of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever... 
