The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated ResidentsRichard Bentley, 1849 - 444 էջ |
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... afterwards 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 ...
... afterwards 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 ...
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... ( afterwards Paget House ) -Sir William Paget - Norfolk House- Execution of the Duke of Norfolk - Dudley , Earl of Leicester - Devereux , Earl of Essex , his Trial and Execution - Sir Philip Sidney - Essex , the Parliamentarian General ...
... ( afterwards Paget House ) -Sir William Paget - Norfolk House- Execution of the Duke of Norfolk - Dudley , Earl of Leicester - Devereux , Earl of Essex , his Trial and Execution - Sir Philip Sidney - Essex , the Parliamentarian General ...
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... afterwards Huntingdon House- Mosaic pavement discovered - Anecdote of Sir William Littlebury- Skinners ' Hall - Festival of Corpus Christi - Walbrook - The Three Cranes in the Vintry - The Painted Tavern - Sumptuous Entertainment in the ...
... afterwards Huntingdon House- Mosaic pavement discovered - Anecdote of Sir William Littlebury- Skinners ' Hall - Festival of Corpus Christi - Walbrook - The Three Cranes in the Vintry - The Painted Tavern - Sumptuous Entertainment in the ...
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... afterwards , in 1811 , Byron's indignation against Lord Elgin for the spoliation of Greece still enduring , he wrote his bitter " Curse of Minerva , " in which the Goddess , addressing Britain , exclaims , " ' Scaped from the ravage of ...
... afterwards , in 1811 , Byron's indignation against Lord Elgin for the spoliation of Greece still enduring , he wrote his bitter " Curse of Minerva , " in which the Goddess , addressing Britain , exclaims , " ' Scaped from the ravage of ...
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... afterwards by Lady Reade , who died in it . The sur- rounding ground , now so completely covered by the houses of the noble and the wealthy , was in 1750 so little esteemed , that Mr. Shepherd offered his freehold mansion , just alluded ...
... afterwards by Lady Reade , who died in it . The sur- rounding ground , now so completely covered by the houses of the noble and the wealthy , was in 1750 so little esteemed , that Mr. Shepherd offered his freehold mansion , just alluded ...
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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.