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... School - Doctors ' Commons- Ludgate - hill - Blackfriars - bridge - Fleet - street The Temple - Temple Bar - The Strand - St . Clement Danes Newspaper Offices- St. Mary - le - Strand- Somerset House - Waterloo - bridge - The Savoy - The ...
... School - Doctors ' Commons- Ludgate - hill - Blackfriars - bridge - Fleet - street The Temple - Temple Bar - The Strand - St . Clement Danes Newspaper Offices- St. Mary - le - Strand- Somerset House - Waterloo - bridge - The Savoy - The ...
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... SCHOOLS . Christ's Hospital , St. Paul's , Westminster , Charterhouse , University College , Merchant Taylors ' , King's College , City of London . GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS . Treasury , Tower , Admiralty , Mint , Somerset House , Houses of ...
... SCHOOLS . Christ's Hospital , St. Paul's , Westminster , Charterhouse , University College , Merchant Taylors ' , King's College , City of London . GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS . Treasury , Tower , Admiralty , Mint , Somerset House , Houses of ...
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George Routledge (and sons; ltd.) DOCHT 1. Christ's Hospital . 4. King's College . 7. The Old Charterhouse . 2. St. Pauls School . 5. City of London School . 8. University College . 3. Westminster School 6. The former Merchant Taylors ...
George Routledge (and sons; ltd.) DOCHT 1. Christ's Hospital . 4. King's College . 7. The Old Charterhouse . 2. St. Pauls School . 5. City of London School . 8. University College . 3. Westminster School 6. The former Merchant Taylors ...
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... inclined , he will seek acquaintance with the various London Charities , and learn something of the operations of Ragged Schools , Refuges , and Missions ; if he PLAN OF PRINCIPAL STREETS . 35 be medical , he How BEST TO SEE LONDON.
... inclined , he will seek acquaintance with the various London Charities , and learn something of the operations of Ragged Schools , Refuges , and Missions ; if he PLAN OF PRINCIPAL STREETS . 35 be medical , he How BEST TO SEE LONDON.
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... School , known as the " Times . Scholarship , " together with this tablet , and a similar one over the door of the printing - office of the paper , was the result of their refusal . The roof of the " covered walks " is artistically em ...
... School , known as the " Times . Scholarship , " together with this tablet , and a similar one over the door of the printing - office of the paper , was the result of their refusal . The roof of the " covered walks " is artistically em ...
Common terms and phrases
Abbey Aldgate ancient Bank beautiful Blackfriars Blackwall Borough Bridge Brompton building built called Castle celebrated chapel Charing-cross Charles Cheapside Chelsea Church City corner Court cross Crystal Palace Duke east Elephant and Castle entrance erected famous feet Fleet-street Gallery Gardens George George III Gravesend Greenwich Hall handsome Henry Holborn Holborn Viaduct Hospital Hotel Hyde-park IOIO Isle of Dogs Islington James's Kensington King Lambeth leads London London Bridge London-bridge Lord Mansion House Market ment Messrs metropolis Metropolitan miles Museum neighbourhood noble Office OI OI omnibuses opposite Oxford-street Paddington Palace park Parliament Paul's Piccadilly Pier Portland stone principal prison Queen Railway Regent-street reign residence Richmond river road Royal School side Southwark station statue stone Strand street style subscription suburbs Surrey Thames Embankment Theatre thoroughfare Tower town various Victoria walk Waterloo West India Docks Westminster Westminster Abbey Windsor Woolwich ΙΟ
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Էջ 209 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run...
Էջ 169 - Yet Burlington's fair palace still remains ; Beauty within, without proportion, reigns. Beneath his eye declining art revives, The wall with animated picture lives ; There Handel strikes the strings, the melting strain Transports the soul, and thrills through every vein ; There oft I enter, (but with cleaner shoes,) For Burlington's belov'd by every Muse.
Էջ 125 - Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.
Էջ 226 - FOR SUPPORTING AND EDUCATING THE CHILDREN OF SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES, NATIVES OF SCOTLAND, WHO HAVE DIED OR BEEN DISABLED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY, AND OF INDIGENT SCOTCH PARENTS, RESIDENT IN LONDON, NOT ENTITLED TO PAROCHIAL RELIEF.
Էջ 34 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
Էջ 11 - A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a dramatick enthusiast, as the grand scene of theatrical entertainments ; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage of taverns, and the great emporium for ladies of easy virtue.
Էջ 3 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
Էջ 11 - I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people. They whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as...
Էջ 117 - As clever Tom Clinch, while the rabble was bawling, Rode stately through Holborn to die in his calling, He stopt at the George for a bottle of sack, And promised to pay for it when he came back.
Էջ 200 - St. George's Fields are fields no more ; The trowel supersedes the plough ; Swamps, huge and inundate of yore, Are changed to civic villas now.