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The Quarterly Review - Page 141
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The Antiquary's Portfolio: Or Cabinet Selection of Historical & Literary ...

J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 422 pages
...marked they are, being foreign. " June 7th. The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two...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 saw." The...
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The Cabinet of Curiosities; Or, Wonders of the World Displayed: Forming a ...

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...doors, and ' Lord 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...
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Historical Parallels, Volume 2

Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1835 - 440 pages
...The hottest clay that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did see in Drury-lane 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 that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." : June...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 7

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...7. 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...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 saw. — 'To...
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The Children's Magazine and Missionary Repository, Volume 19

1856 - 1026 pages
...the plague was beginning to rage. " June 7, 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 with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon usf writ there ; which was a sad sight...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...the plague was beginning to rage. " June 7, the hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two...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...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 pages
...he speaks of as " the hottest day that ever I felt in my life," he says in his "Diary," "This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two...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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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...already shut up. God preserve us all ! May 7th. The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two...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 saw. July...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys: Secretary to the ..., Volume 3

Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 466 pages
...walking, and spending but Qd. till nine at night. The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two...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 saw. It put...
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London in Modern Times, or, Sketches of the great metropolis during the last ...

London - 1851 - 200 pages
..."the hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did see in Drury-lane 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 that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." Again,...
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