"Alsatia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... went about denouncing of judgment upon the city in a frightful manner, sometimes quite naked and with a pan of burning charcoal on his head.'—See DE FOE'S Narrative of the Plague in London." The scene is supposed to be in that part of London termed "Alsatia," so well described by Sir Walter Scott—the refuge of the destitute and criminal. Here are groups of the infected, the dying, the callous, the despairing—a miserable languor pervades them all. The young—the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... Constable's coming home; Cadell emerged from Alsatia; borrowed Clarendon. Home by ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott |
