The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks, Surrey, Kent and Sussex, Հատոր 4William John Hardy, F. E. Robinson, William Paley Baildon F. E. Robinson and Company, 1902 |
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The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London ..., Հատոր 11 William John Hardy Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1909 |
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Էջ 51 - I have been led to make inquiry respecting the truth of the statement ; and find from concurrent and indisputable testimony, that there is a spot of ground deemed sacred, from being the place where a martyr was burnt. — It is about twenty-four yards in circumference. And when the field is fallow or when in corn, that particular spot cannot be discovered ; but when the rest of the field begins to flourish and become green, the blades of grass or corn on this mysterious spot, begin to look unhealthy...
Էջ 122 - ... yet when he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her younger sister preferred before her in marriage, he then, of a certain pity, framed his fancy toward her, and soon after married her...
Էջ 261 - It is, however, only from those who " prated of his whereabouts" that I learned the history of his adventure with THE GHOST. THEEE stands a City, — neither large nor small, Its air and situation sweet and pretty ; It matters very little — if at all — Whether its denizens are dull or witty, Whether the ladies there are short or tall, Brunettes or blondes, only, there stands a city 1 — Perhaps 'tis also requisite to minute That there's a Castle and a Cobbler in it.
Էջ 201 - I may tell you in secret (here's nobody else hears me), I take no care how I fill my sacks. Every time I come to London, my coals are found faulty ; I have been five times pilloried, my coals given to the poor, and my sacks burnt before my face.
Էջ 268 - And he sees a dun horse come swift as the wind, And his nostrils smoke and his eyes they blaze Like a couple of lamps on a yellow post-chaise. Every shoe he has got Appears red-hot.
Էջ 270 - ... walk, and they who cross her path the deed may rue ; Her fatal breath is fell as death ! the Simoom's blast is not More dire — (a wind in Africa that blows uncommon hot). ' But all unlike the Simoom's blast, her breath is deadly cold, Delivering quivering, shivering shocks...
Էջ 277 - For the Benefit of Miss Mozart of thirteen and Master Mozart of eight years of age ; Prodigies of Nature. HICKFORD'S GREAT ROOM IN BREWER STREET. This Day, May...
Էջ 115 - The spot on which the corpse was found is thus described in a publication of the period : — " As to the place, it was in a ditch on the south side of Primrose Hill, surrounded with divers closes, fenced in with high mounds and ditches ; no road near, only some deep dirty lanes, made for the convenience of driving cows, and such like cattle, in and out of the grounds ; and those very lanes bruises, and his neck was broken.
Էջ 270 - lark,' You should ever embark In that best of improvements on boats since the Ark, The steam-vessel call'd the ' Red Rover,' the barge Of an excellent officer, named Captain Large, You may see, some half way Twixt the pier at Herne Bay And Margate, the place where you're going to stay, A village called Birchington, famed for its ' Rolls,' As the fishing-bank, just in its front, is for Soles.
Էջ 164 - Sickness and mortality begins wonderfully to grow amongst us; and it is a most pitiful sight to see, here at Margate, how the men, having no place to receive them into here, die in the streets.