Covent-garden

Coachmaker's-hall, [3] but not often; and a few times to Covent-garden Theatre.

Letter 20 2009

I put up at the Bull and Gate in Holborn, and hastened to Covent-garden.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Covent-garden church in the morning; but came home so ill that she was obliged to lie down.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

If, instead of the areas and iron rails, which seem to be of very little use, there had been a corridore with arcades all round, as in Covent-garden, the appearance of the whole would have been more magnificent and striking; those arcades would have afforded an agreeable covered walk, and sheltered the poor chairmen and their carriages from the rain, which is here almost perpetual.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

It must be owned, the Covent-garden affords some good fruit; which, however, is always engrossed by a few individuals of overgrown fortune, at an exorbitant price; so that little else than the refuse of the market falls to the share of the community; and that is distributed by such filthy hands, as I cannot look at without loathing.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

This is executed with great insolence, and, as it is in the hands of the dregs of the people, very scandalously; for, under pretense of searching for tobacco and snuff, they are sure to steal whatever they can find, insomuch that when they came on board our sailors addressed us in the Covent-garden language: “Pray, gentlemen and ladies, take care of your swords and watches.”

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

By way of prevention, therefore, I this day sent for my friend, Mr. Hunter, the great surgeon and anatomist of Covent-garden; and, though my belly was not yet very full and tight, let out ten quarts of water; the young sea-surgeon attended the operation, not as a performer, but as a student.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

Covent-garden; and Will's in the same street, at the corner of

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title Various

A very equivocal compliment to ourselves it may be; but such jolly-looking "shabby fellows" as sat round the table at which our Tony presided, were never furnished by the supernumeraries of Drury or Covent-garden.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

In the year 1824 he had the honor of being commissioned to compose this opera for the Covent-garden theatre.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley