Old World Memories, Հատոր 2L. C. Page, 1899 |
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... reached the Abbey . We are still on the hither side of Westminster proper ; but how few single half - miles of street have witnessed events of such magnitude as Whitehall , where dynasties have risen and been dethroned , and the ...
... reached the Abbey . We are still on the hither side of Westminster proper ; but how few single half - miles of street have witnessed events of such magnitude as Whitehall , where dynasties have risen and been dethroned , and the ...
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... reached its highest splendor at the court of Britain . As with all monuments erected before the Reformation , the effigies here are recumbent ; but many of them are sadly worn by time and spoliation , and some , like that of Edward I ...
... reached its highest splendor at the court of Britain . As with all monuments erected before the Reformation , the effigies here are recumbent ; but many of them are sadly worn by time and spoliation , and some , like that of Edward I ...
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... reached the choir - screen , we shall have passed the memorials of Captain John Smith and of the statesman Sir William Temple ( who is buried in the nave ) , and the grave of the un- fortunate Major André ( bearing faded flowers as we ...
... reached the choir - screen , we shall have passed the memorials of Captain John Smith and of the statesman Sir William Temple ( who is buried in the nave ) , and the grave of the un- fortunate Major André ( bearing faded flowers as we ...
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... reached the southern transept , the Poets ' Corner , in which the daily service is held . It has no west aisle like its opposite , as this was shorn off for the cloisters , and its west- ern wall has long been of History or Learning ...
... reached the southern transept , the Poets ' Corner , in which the daily service is held . It has no west aisle like its opposite , as this was shorn off for the cloisters , and its west- ern wall has long been of History or Learning ...
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... reached its climax , and furnishes such a " spectacular apotheosis ( I believe this is how he modestly puts it ) as quite pales the lustre of " America , " at the Chicago Exposition . Beyond this , with twelve hundred performers at once ...
... reached its climax , and furnishes such a " spectacular apotheosis ( I believe this is how he modestly puts it ) as quite pales the lustre of " America , " at the Chicago Exposition . Beyond this , with twelve hundred performers at once ...
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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.