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  • [1191] Allan Ramsay's residence: No. 67, Harley-street.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Home I went disgusted, to toil on at my hack-writing, only praying that I might be let alone to scribble in peace, and often thinking, sadly, how little my friends in Harley-street could guess at the painful experience, the doubts, the struggles, the bitter cares, which went to the making of the poetry which they admired so much!

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

  • So I went to the handsome house off Harley-street, and was shown into his study, and saw my own book lying on the table, and was welcomed by the good old man, and congratulated on my success, and asked if I did not see my own wisdom in

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Harley-street, with whom I had always been a favourite.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

  • Harley-street, with whom I had always been a favourite.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6 Charles James Lever 1839

  • It was not, therefore, to Harley-street that Isabella could resort with any hope of attention to her vexations, or of counsel that would help her to endure them.

    Isabella. A Novel 1823

  • But Charlotte, she would not be satisfied, so Mr. Donavan was sent for; and luckily he happened to be just come in from Harley-street, so he stepped over directly, and as soon as ever he saw the child, he said just as we did, that it was nothing in the world but the red-gum, and then Charlotte was easy.

    Sense and Sensibility 1811

  • The Dashwoods were so prodigiously delighted with the Middletons, that though not much in the habit of giving any thing, they determined to give them -- a dinner; and soon after their acquaintance began, invited them to dine in Harley-street, where they had taken a very good house for three months.

    Sense and Sensibility 1811

  • Lucy, to request her company and her sister's, for some days, in Harley-street, as soon as Lady Middleton could spare them.

    Sense and Sensibility 1811

  • Elinor remembered whatRobert had told her in Harley-street, of his opinion of what his own mediation in his brother's affairs might have done, if applied to in time.

    Sense and Sensibility 1811

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