Shadwell
Proper noun
Meaning
(countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States.
(uncountable) A placename:
A hamlet in Uley parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7897).
An inner suburb of London in borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3580).
A hamlet in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TL9383).
A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3439).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
Of course, there was Hobart. The Inspector was probably insane, but that was all to the good. And he had one particular aspiration which Shadwell knew he might one day need to turn to his own ends. That was, to lead-as Hobart put it-a righteous crusade.
The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
Dryden's main goal in the work is to "satirize Shadwell, ostensibly for his offenses against literature but more immediately we may suppose for his habitual badgering of him on the stage and in print."
Battered wooden furniture and bare-brick walls are quaint and cool, while the illuminated view of the boat-filled docks from its floor-to-ceiling windows feels more like Spain than Shadwell.
MORTLAKE Lions Club inducted a new member last week at its fortnightly meeting at Mount Shadwell Hotel.