The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated ResidentsRichard Bentley, 1849 - 444 էջ |
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... Gate - Romantic incident in the Life of Sir Stephen Forster - La Belle Sauvage - Sir Thomas Wyatt cap- tured there - The Old Bailey - Sydney House there - Newgate Prison - Sir Richard Whittington - Howard , the Philanthropist - Horrible ...
... Gate - Romantic incident in the Life of Sir Stephen Forster - La Belle Sauvage - Sir Thomas Wyatt cap- tured there - The Old Bailey - Sydney House there - Newgate Prison - Sir Richard Whittington - Howard , the Philanthropist - Horrible ...
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... Gates at each end - Dread- ful calamity there - Inconvenience of the ancient bridge - Grand Tourna- ment on it - Grand displays on it in the olden time - Battle on it between Jack Cade's rioters and the citizens - Attacked by ruffians ...
... Gates at each end - Dread- ful calamity there - Inconvenience of the ancient bridge - Grand Tourna- ment on it - Grand displays on it in the olden time - Battle on it between Jack Cade's rioters and the citizens - Attacked by ruffians ...
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... gates , which are exquisite specimens of bronzed iron - work . The other , commonly called the triumphal arch , is of the Corinthian order , and was built about the same time as the one we have just described . Four columns , two on ...
... gates , which are exquisite specimens of bronzed iron - work . The other , commonly called the triumphal arch , is of the Corinthian order , and was built about the same time as the one we have just described . Four columns , two on ...
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... gates setting up towards the north and the fields , and that the next morning he heard he was gone . Again , on the 20th ... gate of which will be memorable as long as Hogarth's satirical print of it remains . The hall and ceilings were ...
... gates setting up towards the north and the fields , and that the next morning he heard he was gone . Again , on the 20th ... gate of which will be memorable as long as Hogarth's satirical print of it remains . The hall and ceilings were ...
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... gate- house , on the Pall Mall side , which opens on a small quadran- gular court , with a piazza on the right . Visitors are admitted here in the absence of the Sovereign , on the payment of a gratuity to the attendant . The first room ...
... gate- house , on the Pall Mall side , which opens on a small quadran- gular court , with a piazza on the right . Visitors are admitted here in the absence of the Sovereign , on the payment of a gratuity to the attendant . The first room ...
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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.