Old England - a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities (1845) (14774116572)

Identifier: oldenglandpictor02knig (find matches)
Title: Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic sites
Publisher: London : C. Knight
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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fHarry the Eighths palace of Whitehall ; then the Horse-Guards ;then the Admiralty, as it appeared before Adams screen was built(Fig. 2362) ; but there was no telegraph in those days, sticking itstall beam of timber up towards the sky, and making the passers-bywonder how long it will be before it again begins to work—or ifit be working, what can be the nature of the information it conveys.So our visitor, thinking of all sorts of naval heroes, past, present,and future, who had looked or would look towards that building astheir Polar star, he wandered on into Pall Mall (Fig. 2364), and waspresently lost in the contemplation of the variety of persons—dresses,equipages, shops, houses, &c—that there met his eye, and in the hostsof literary recollections, satirical and others, which the very nameof Pall Mall aroused. Here it was that the shoemakers wereaccustomed to exhibit those delicate slippers which provoked theire of Isaac Bickerstaff, and especially that pair with green lace
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u CO o I- X o UJ zo I- Q au CO Z o < UJ S CO CUAP. II.J OLD ENGLAND. 319 and blue heels. Here was situated the coffee-house which thesame censor satirized by giving notice to all the ingenious gentle-men in and about the cities of London and Westminster, who havea mind to be instructed in the noble sciences of music, poetry, andpolitics, that they repair to the Smyrna coffee-house in Pall Mall,between the hours of eight and ten at night, where they may beinstructed gratis, with elaborate essays by word of mouth, on all orany of the above-mentioned arts. The disciples are to preparetheir bodies with three dishes of Bohea, and purge their brains withtwo pinches of snuff. But what would the frequenters of Pall Mall at the present daythink of a smock-race taking place there? So late as 1733 thischoice amusement drew crowds to Pall Mall. And what shop isthis before which the visitor has stopped ? It is Dodsleys—once apoet-footman, now an enterprising bookseller ; a man who obtainedin