Smirke

The foundation stone was laid on 18 April 1812, but the pumpkin-shaped dome, which gives the building its distinctive appearance, did not appear until 1842, when Sydney Smirke best known for the circular reading room at the British Museum enlarged the chapel to accommodate 220 worshippers, reflecting the fact that the hospitals population had more than doubled.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

The foundation stone was laid on 18 April 1812, but the pumpkin-shaped dome, which gives the building its distinctive appearance, did not appear until 1842, when Sydney Smirke best known for the circular reading room at the British Museum enlarged the chapel to accommodate 220 worshippers, reflecting the fact that the hospitals population had more than doubled.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

The foundation stone was laid on 18 April 1812, but the pumpkin-shaped dome, which gives the building its distinctive appearance, did not appear until 1842, when Sydney Smirke best known for the circular reading room at the British Museum enlarged the chapel to accommodate 220 worshippers, reflecting the fact that the hospitals population had more than doubled.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

After some time Smirke advised him to ‘go to nature’ for his studies, arguing that if he stayed at the academy ‘all originality of thought and invention would be lost’ in him Jewitt, 15.

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Clavering, which the peaceful Smirke had previously tenanted, and was deep in the good graces of Madame Fribsby, his landlady; and of the whole town, indeed.

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She seized the flowers (Foker discharged a prodigious bouquet at her, and even Smirke made a feeble shy with a rose, and blushed dreadfully when it fell into the pit).

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Twinkling in her breast poor old Pen saw a locket which he had bought of Mr. Nathan in High Street, with the last shilling he was worth, and a sovereign borrowed from Smirke.

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Smirke declared and believed that they were beautiful.

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Pen had resolved in his mind that he must see Foker that morning; he must hear about her; know about her; be with somebody who knew her; and honest Smirke, for his part, sitting up among the stinging-nettles, as his pony cropped quietly in the hedge, thought dismally to himself, ought he to go to Fairoaks now that his pupil was evidently gone away for the day.

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Doctor Portman and Smirke were both cautious of informing the widow of the constant outbreak of calumny which was pursuing poor

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