The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated ResidentsRichard Bentley, 1849 - 444 էջ |
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... Whitehall - The great man who " flitted about this palace " temp . Henry VIII . - Pageants there in the time of Elizabeth , and Revels in those of King James I. - Execution of King Charles I. - Cromwell lived and died here - Events here ...
... Whitehall - The great man who " flitted about this palace " temp . Henry VIII . - Pageants there in the time of Elizabeth , and Revels in those of King James I. - Execution of King Charles I. - Cromwell lived and died here - Events here ...
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... White- hall , exchanged houses with Lord Melbourne ; it then received the appellation of York House , and when his Royal Highness left it , the house was divided into chambers , the garden built upon , and , in compliment to its last ...
... White- hall , exchanged houses with Lord Melbourne ; it then received the appellation of York House , and when his Royal Highness left it , the house was divided into chambers , the garden built upon , and , in compliment to its last ...
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... Whitehall . James I. presented it to his luckless and eldest son , Prince Henry , who resided in it till his death , in 1612 , in a manner which has never been satisfactorily explained , but which there is every reason to suppose was by ...
... Whitehall . James I. presented it to his luckless and eldest son , Prince Henry , who resided in it till his death , in 1612 , in a manner which has never been satisfactorily explained , but which there is every reason to suppose was by ...
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... Whitehall . The poor Queen , Mary D'Este , took her departure in an open wherry with her infant child , and was rowed across the Thames at midnight to Lambeth , amid the drenching of a most pitiless storm . On her landing she remained ...
... Whitehall . The poor Queen , Mary D'Este , took her departure in an open wherry with her infant child , and was rowed across the Thames at midnight to Lambeth , amid the drenching of a most pitiless storm . On her landing she remained ...
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... Whitehall . The York Column was erected between the years 1830 and 1833 , from the design of Mr. B. Wyatt . The money for its erection was raised by public subscription . It is 124 feet high , the same height as the celebrated column of ...
... Whitehall . The York Column was erected between the years 1830 and 1833 , from the design of Mr. B. Wyatt . The money for its erection was raised by public subscription . It is 124 feet high , the same height as the celebrated column of ...
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The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated Residents John Thomas Smith Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1854 |
The Streets of London: Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated Residents, by John ... John Thomas Smith Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1861 |
The Streets of London: Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated Residents, by John ... John Thomas Smith Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1861 |
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Էջ 42 - Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Էջ 105 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Էջ 202 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Էջ 6 - There when they came whereas those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride. Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride...
Էջ 191 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you: I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms : this I have seen since I saw you.
Էջ 161 - ... approach to me, somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost, 'Look, my lord, it comes.
Էջ 178 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud, though yet gentle noise came from the heavens, (for it was like nothing on earth,) which did so comfort and cheer me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
Էջ 92 - Little Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation. And the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.
Էջ 178 - If it be for thy glory, I beseech thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it...
Էջ 208 - President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London, for improving Natural Knowledge.