The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated ResidentsRichard Bentley, 1849 - 444 էջ |
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... feet in length . It consists of a screen of fluted Ionic columns , with three arches for carriages , and two entrances for foot passengers . Four handsome columns sustain the entablature of the central gateway . Above this is a frieze ...
... feet in length . It consists of a screen of fluted Ionic columns , with three arches for carriages , and two entrances for foot passengers . Four handsome columns sustain the entablature of the central gateway . Above this is a frieze ...
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... feet square , surrounded by a gravel walk of about ten feet in width , boarded up knee- high , and shaded all round by willows . This pond was notorious for that cruel sport called " Duck Hunting , " so long the delight of the English ...
... feet square , surrounded by a gravel walk of about ten feet in width , boarded up knee- high , and shaded all round by willows . This pond was notorious for that cruel sport called " Duck Hunting , " so long the delight of the English ...
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... feet ; tosses it up again to his forehead , and from thence to his right heel ; then holds a wine glass in his mouth , and tosses the straw with his heel into the glass ; takes the straw with the ear downwards , and with a blast blows ...
... feet ; tosses it up again to his forehead , and from thence to his right heel ; then holds a wine glass in his mouth , and tosses the straw with his heel into the glass ; takes the straw with the ear downwards , and with a blast blows ...
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... feet strapt down to the stage , within the reach of each other's right leg ; and the most bleeding wounds to decide the wager . N. B. The undaunted young JAMES , who is thought the bravest of his age in the manly art of boxing , fights ...
... feet strapt down to the stage , within the reach of each other's right leg ; and the most bleeding wounds to decide the wager . N. B. The undaunted young JAMES , who is thought the bravest of his age in the manly art of boxing , fights ...
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... feet , ( our honours and consciences lying under the table , & c . , our fortunes being at stake ) and congratulate your Majesty's happy return to these Kingdoms , which assembles us together , to the great advantage of some , the ruin ...
... feet , ( our honours and consciences lying under the table , & c . , our fortunes being at stake ) and congratulate your Majesty's happy return to these Kingdoms , which assembles us together , to the great advantage of some , the ruin ...
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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.