Old World Memories, Հատոր 2L. C. Page, 1899 |
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Արդյունքներ 37–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... present 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 ...
... present 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 ...
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... present hour ! By Birdcage Walk and Great George Street , leading straight east from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Bridge , the demarcation is made between Whitehall and Westminster proper . The latter is , I think , of all locali ...
... present hour ! By Birdcage Walk and Great George Street , leading straight east from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Bridge , the demarcation is made between Whitehall and Westminster proper . The latter is , I think , of all locali ...
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... present our letters of introduction , and still more out of respect to the flag that makes it a sanctuary more inviolate than the Broad Sanctuary , once a refuge for crimi- nals , now a street that bears that name , by the side of the ...
... present our letters of introduction , and still more out of respect to the flag that makes it a sanctuary more inviolate than the Broad Sanctuary , once a refuge for crimi- nals , now a street that bears that name , by the side of the ...
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... body the beautifully impressive design of Sir Charles Barry in the very latest of Per- pendicular Gothic of the present century . Doubtless it would have been yet more beautiful , had not he , like Wren , been London 13.
... body the beautifully impressive design of Sir Charles Barry in the very latest of Per- pendicular Gothic of the present century . Doubtless it would have been yet more beautiful , had not he , like Wren , been London 13.
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... present form , and its magnificent carved oaken roof , are the work of Richard II . On the apex of this long , sharp roof , over the great north door and window , the head of Oliver Cromwell was impaled after the Restoration , and there ...
... present form , and its magnificent carved oaken roof , are the work of Richard II . On the apex of this long , sharp roof , over the great north door and window , the head of Oliver Cromwell was impaled after the Restoration , and there ...
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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.