Old World Memories, Հատոր 2L. C. Page, 1899 |
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... streets , as in a more directly local form . And in no city in the world is there such endless repetition and combination of street - names , which , without suggesting poverty of resource , makes the pil- grim's progress through them ...
... streets , as in a more directly local form . And in no city in the world is there such endless repetition and combination of street - names , which , without suggesting poverty of resource , makes the pil- grim's progress through them ...
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... Benjamin Franklin lived for some time just here in Craven Street . No reader of criminal annals or of contempo- raneous history is ignorant of Scotland Yard , the famous headquarters of the London police , whose modest London 7.
... Benjamin Franklin lived for some time just here in Craven Street . No reader of criminal annals or of contempo- raneous history is ignorant of Scotland Yard , the famous headquarters of the London police , whose modest London 7.
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... Street ( which has given its name to the whole political quarter ) , and look out at the back on the waters of St. James's Park , by the side of the offices of the Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ...
... Street ( which has given its name to the whole political quarter ) , and look out at the back on the waters of St. James's Park , by the side of the offices of the Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ...
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... street - front Charles I. stepped firmly to the neighboring scaffold , - a semi- obstructive , semi - pathetic , at the last a wholly heroic figure . It was not for much longer a palace , but long enough to shelter Oliver Cromwell and ...
... street - front Charles I. stepped firmly to the neighboring scaffold , - a semi- obstructive , semi - pathetic , at the last a wholly heroic figure . It was not for much longer a palace , but long enough to shelter Oliver Cromwell and ...
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Edward Lowe Temple. not down wide Parliament Street at all , but through narrow King Street next west , which also leads from Whitehall , and in which Spenser died , the great state pageants of Eng- land's bygone years have reached the ...
Edward Lowe Temple. not down wide Parliament Street at all , but through narrow King Street next west , which also leads from Whitehall , and in which Spenser died , the great state pageants of Eng- land's bygone years have reached the ...
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Էջ 293 - TO MY SUCCESSOR. If thou chance for to find A new house to thy mind, And built without thy cost: Be good to the poor, As God gives thee store, And then my labour's not lost.
Էջ 66 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art : thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled : only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
Էջ 292 - UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, SIDNEY'S sister, PEMBROKE'S mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Էջ 230 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Էջ 231 - The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford ; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.
Էջ 171 - The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more important, of the only two English prelates whose worldly franchises invested them with some faint shadow of the sovereign powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire.
Էջ 70 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Էջ 143 - ' Lowland Scotland as a distinct nationality came in with two warriors and went out with two bards. It came in with William Wallace and Robert Bruce, and went out with Robert Burns and Walter Scott. The first two made the history ; the last two told the story and sang the song.
Էջ 39 - In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.