From either of these connexions it may be inferred that my godfather could command an order for the then Drury-lane theatre at pleasureand, indeed, a pretty liberal issue of those cheap billets, in Brinsley's easy autograph, I have heard him say was the sole remuneration which he had received for many years' nightly illumination of the orchestra and various avenues of that theatreand he was content it should be so.

(Melody lane mystery stories)

On my left lay "a little lane serene," with stone fences half hid by blackberry-bushes "A little lane serene, Smooth-heaped from wall to wall with unbroken snows.

My lane fence is the end of the known earth.

They had just risen from the table, and the old woman was removing the cloth, when a knock came to the lane-door, and she went to open it, leaving the room-door ajar, whereby the minister caught a glimpse of a blue apron, and feeling himself turning sick, sat down again.

I had not reached the other side of the orchard when who should I see but Dick Sheridan himself, coming in at the lane gate.

See MASON, W. HERTFORD, first Earl of, Cock-lane ghost, goes to hear the, i. 407, n. 1; Hume, gets a pension for, ii. 317, n. 1; Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 34, n. 4.

Yet he seriously discussed the truth of second-sight; he carefully investigated the Cock-lane ghosta goblin who anticipated some of the modern phenomena of so-called "spiritualism," and with almost equal absurdity; he told stories to Boswell about a "shadowy being" which had once been seen by Cave, and declared that he had once heard his mother call "Sam" when he was at Oxford and she at Lichfield.

For though unpowdered locks, and the partial uncovering of a muscular neck, by the loose tie of the silk handkerchief had something of the simplicity of republicanism, yet the fine diamond chat sparkled at the shirt breast, and the glittering of two watch-chains (the foppery of the day), exhibited an aristocracy of toilet, which did not exactly assort with the Back-lane graces.

Two women stepped out into a light trap and vanished behind a lane hedge before Constance could call the attention of her companions.

At Mr. Tytler's, I happened to tell that one evening, a great many years ago, when Dr. Hugh Blair and I were sitting together in the pit of Drury-lane play-house, in a wild freak of youthful extravagance, I entertained the audience prodigiously[1095], by imitating the lowing of a cow.

We had a long laneyou know what a lane iswell, here they come!

The horsemen had turned into this lane-like highwayevidently misdirected.

The man who wrote out that exhortation in the interests of Petticoat-lane men and their kindred, and the patriot who drove with a fierce virtue the four nails into it didn't, we are afraid, know clearly how much it costs to convert a genuine Jew, else more caution would have been exercised by each of them.

"If one of t' witch dwarfs wud come from t' lane moors to-night, and gif hur money, to go out,out, I say,out, lad, where t' sun shines, and t' heath grows, and t' ladies walk in silken gownds, and God stays all t' time,where t' man lives that talked to us to-night,Hugh knows, Hugh could walk there like a king!"

" In the course of the year 1747, Garrick, in conjunction with Lacy, became patentee of Drury lane playhouse.

In 1817, Methodism became dissatisfied with its Back-lane quarters, and migrated into a lighter, healthier, and cleaner portion of the townLune-streetwhere a building was erected for its special convenience and edification.

But comelet us leave this Heron hotel, and find a way to the lane road.

The longest lane turns, the darkest night wears on to dawn, the weariest river winds at last to the sea; and about tea-time, aching, dishevelled, hungry (having had nothing but a few chocolates since chota-hazri at 5 a.m.), I was deposited before the verandah of the Russels' bungalow.

They came to the end of a shady winding lane at this moment, and Captain Sedgewick and Miss Nowell wished Mrs. Lister and her brother good-evening, and went away down the lane arm-in-arm.

"There is an old house about a mile from here," he said to the girl; "a house belonging to a farm, in the lane yonder that turns off by the Blue Boar.

I could not permit it to enter my bosom, and (pardon me for a moment, sir) when I looked down, and caught a glance of my own natty-looking, tight little leg, and dapper Hessians, I recommended her strongly to act on the principle of the Drury-lane play-bill, which says, 'All for Love, or the World well lost.'

While the book was in the press, the proof-sheets were shown to Johnson, at the Ivy lane club, by Payne, the bookseller, who was one of the members.

Adjoining the Vintry Wharf, and at the corner of a narrow lane communicating with Thames Street, there stood, in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, a tavern called the Three Cranes.

Turning west from the lane end, the road descends the valley toward the sea amid beautiful surroundings, and reaches Burton Bradstock in a short three miles.