Hawkins, Anthony Hope ("Anthony Hope")

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• "Hope, Anthony"

  see Hawkins, Anthony Hope. ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Hope

  ·noun A small bay; an inlet; a haven. II. Hope ·noun A sloping plain between mountain ridges. III....

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Hope

  One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love...

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• anthony

  The favourite or smallest pig in the litter.--To follow like a tantony pig, i.e. St. Anthony's pig; ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hope

  A small bay; it was an early term for valley, and is still used in Kent for a brook, and gives name ...

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• Hawkin's Court

  West out of St. Michael's Lane. In Candlewick Ward (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831). Called "Hockins Cour...

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• Hope, Thomas

  (1770-1831) Novelist and writer on art, was a wealthy merchant of Amsterdam, of Scotch descent, his...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Munday, Anthony

  (1553-1633) Dramatist, poet, and pamphleteer, s. of a draper in London, appears to have had a somew...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of

  (1671-1713) Philosopher, b. in London, grandson of the 1st Earl, the eminent statesman, the "Achito...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Trollope, Anthony

  (1815-1882) Novelist, s. of Thomas Anthony T., a barrister who ruined himself by speculation, and o...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Wood, or À Wood, Anthony

  (1632-1695) Antiquary, was b. at Oxf., where he was ed. and spent most of his life. His antiquarian...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• to knock anthony

  Said of an in-kneed person, or one whose knees knock together; to cuff Jonas. See *jonas. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• forlorn hope

  A gamester's last stake. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• anthony pig

  the favourite, or smallest pig of the litter or farrow. Kent. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• flowing-hope

  See forlorn hope. ...

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• forlorn hope

  Officers and men detached on desperate service to make a first attack, or to be the first in mountin...

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• lower-hope

  A well-known reach in the Thames where ships wait for the turn of the tide. ...

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• Browne, Isaac Hawkins

  (1705-1760) Is remembered as the author of some clever imitations of contemporary poets on the them...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Froude, James Anthony

  (1818-1894) Historian and essayist, 3rd s. of the Archdeacon of Totnes, Devonshire, near which he w...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• (St.) Anthony, Hospital of

  On the north side of Threadneedle Street (S. 181). In Broad Street Ward. Stow tells us that there wa...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• (St.) Bartholomew beside St. Anthony

  See St. Bartholomew by the Exchange. ...

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• Blakehors on the Hope

  See Blackhorse Alley, Court, Fleet Street. ...

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• Iren on the Hope

  A tenement so called in parish of St. Mary Magdalene in Olde fisshe-strete, in ward of Castle baynar...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.