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Counsel Upon the Reading of Books - Page 114
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 10

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 384 pages
...corner of Jermyn Street, and one of them asked him, as if there was but one deathbed in London — " Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ? " The enquiries both at the hotel and at my house were incessant ; and I think there was hardly a...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 10

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 380 pages
...corner of Jermyn Street, and one of them asked him, as if there was but one deathbed in London — " Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ? " The enquiries both at the hotel and at my house were incessant ; and I think there was hardly a...
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The New-York Review, Volume 7

1840 - 566 pages
...Cunningham found several plain mechanics, late at night, standing at a neighboring corner, who asked him, "Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ?" as if, he said, there was but one death-bed in London. But London was not the place for Walter Scott to die...
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Knight's Penny Magazine, Volumes 1-2; Volumes 15-16

1846 - 502 pages
...this candition I ran the gauntlope (so I think I may justly call it) through No. i. vl':m"v: PPV'W ' Do you know, Sir, if this is the street where he is lying ?' " WILLS. THE last wills of our ancestors used invariably to begin, " In the name of God," &e. It...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...the corner of Jermyn Steet, and one of them asked him, as if there was but one death-bed in London, ' Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ? ' " WILLS. — The last wills of our ancestors used invariably to begin, " In the name of God," &c....
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Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.,

John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...corner of Jermyn Street, and one of them asked him — as if there was but one deathbed in London — " Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ? " The inquiries both at the hotel and at my house were incessant ; and I think there was hardly a...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott

Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 336 pages
...night Allan Cunningham found a knot of workmen standing at the corner of Jermyn-street, and one of them said to him, " Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ?" As if there was but one house of mourning, but one couch of death in that vast London ! Yes, here, as we...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott

Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 326 pages
...night Allan Cunningham found a knot of workmen standing at the corner of Jermyn-street, and one of them said to him, " Do you know, sir, if this is the street where lie is lying.?" As if there was but one house of mourning, but one couch of death in that vast London...
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Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 3-5

1856 - 864 pages
...most anxious interest was manifested by all orders, from the royal family to the labouring poor. " Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying?" was the inquiry of some working-men of Allan Cunningham, as if there was but one death-bed in London!...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 64

1889 - 876 pages
...of love, — love freely given and abundantly returned. The anxious whisper of the London workmen, "Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying?" the rapturous cry of the little deformed tailor who, with his last breath, sobbed out, '' The Lord...
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