hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in James Russell Lowell, Among my books. You can also browse the collection for Islington (United Kingdom) or search for Islington (United Kingdom) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Milton. (search)
ittle Robertsonian at best, naturally grows worse when forced to condescend to every-day matters. He can no more dismount and walk than the man in armor on a Lord Mayor's day. It [Aldersgate Street] stretches away northwards a full fourth of a mile as one continuous thoroughfare, until, crossed by Long Lane and the Barbican, it parts with the name of Aldersgate Street, and, under the new names of Goswell Street and Goswell Road, completes its tendency towards the suburbs and fields about Islington. What a noble work might not the Directory be if composed on this scale! The imagination even of an alderman might well be lost in that full quarter of a mile of continuous thoroughfare. Mr. Masson is very great in these passages of civic grandeur; but he is more surprising, on the whole, where he has an image to deal with. Speaking of Milton's two-handed engine in Lycidas, he says: May not Milton, whatever else he meant, have meant a coming English Parliament with its two Houses? Wha