Isle of Dogs

These were undertaken according to an Act of Parliament passed in 1799, and the place was formerly called the Isle of Dogs, though it might almost as appropriately have been called the Isle of Boys.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

The Isle of Dogs was barely visible out in the middle of the river.

Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

Indeed, many parts are much like the Thames at the Isle of Dogs, only the Leeambye has to rise twenty or thirty feet before it can overflow some of its meadows.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

_A Collier Dock_, on a large scale, has been projected to be excavated and formed in the Isle of Dogs, near Blackwall for which

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) Various

He was imprisoned for writing _The Isle of Dogs_, which was played, but not published.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

In the same vein are the proposals that Hudson should be the chief "Guy" on November 5, and be appointed governor of a convict settlement on the Isle of Dogs.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs, as strangers would see them.

London River 1915

Everything seems to have gone well until near the end of July, when the company presented _The Isle of Dogs_, a satirical play written in part by the "young Juvenal" of the age, Thomas Nashe, and in part by certain "inferior players," chief of whom seems to have been Ben

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

_The Isle of Dogs_, by Pembroke's Men at the Swan, [129] the Privy

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

Near the close of July, 1597, Pembroke's Men at the Swan acted Nashe's satirical play, _The Isle of Dogs_, containing, it seems, a burlesque on certain persons high in authority.

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913