Significados de lazar-house en inglés

I have lived in this town of tyrants, and lain in this lazar-house before.

Why did I ever come to this lazar-house! cried Mr. Bennett, shaken to his depths.

It was originally a lazar-house founded about 1350.

Hast learned from the monks, I trow, to fear a woman as thou wouldst a lazar-house.

London had become one vast lazar-house, and seemed in a fair way of becoming a mighty sepulchre.

No: it is a lazar-house of disease.

A walk through this mighty lazar-house would have furnished a wholesome lesson to the most reckless observer.

The clearest case of mixed metaphor ever charged against Milton occurs in the Eleventh Book, where the lazar-house is described-

Once more, compare the lazar-house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante.

The mighty lazar-house was less crowded than he expected to find it, but its terrible condition far exceeded his worst conceptions.

The world is a sort of vast moral lazar-house, in which most have sores, either of greater or less degree of virulence.

The destroying angel had gone forth, and kindled with its fiery breath the awful pestilence, until all London became one mighty lazar-house.

From Peiraeus it spread upwards with rapid strides, and before long the whole space within the walls presented the appearance of a vast lazar-house.

How often do the filthy, damp and unventilated abodes of the abject poor, become perfect lazar-houses to their wretched inmates?

"I will give one thousand sucres to the lazar-house of Quito if a bull kills a man this day."

I have lived in this town of tyrants, and lain in this lazar-house before.