 | J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...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...first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." The account of the plague is not so historical as we have elsewhere read it ; but it is full of authentic... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1833 - 448 pages
...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 days after this... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1835 - 428 pages
...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...there, which was a sad sight to me, being the first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." June 17 — " It struck me very deep this afternoon,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...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...first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. — 'To St. James's, and did our usual business before the Duke of York; which signified little, our... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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...first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. July 12th. A solemn fest-day for the plague growing upon us. 13th. Above 700 died of the plague this... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1848 - 466 pages
...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...kind that, to my remembrance, I ever 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...had manifestly no wish that the extent of these gratuities should be generally known, nor the persons sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to...myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll tobacco to smell and to chaw, which took away the apprehension." (iii. 28.) 1851.] PEPYS« DIARY.... | |
 | London - London (England) - 1851 - 200 pages
...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...there, which was a sad sight to me, being the first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." Again, on the 17th of June : " It struck me very deep... | |
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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... 
