The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated ResidentsRichard Bentley, 1849 - 444 էջ |
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... sides of the building . This frieze bears testimony to the genius and skill of Mr. Archibald Henning , a worthy son of the highly ingenious and ill - requited John Henning . It represents a naval and military triumphal procession . The side ...
... sides of the building . This frieze bears testimony to the genius and skill of Mr. Archibald Henning , a worthy son of the highly ingenious and ill - requited John Henning . It represents a naval and military triumphal procession . The side ...
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... side wall of the Earl of Chesterfield's garden , in Curzon Street , was , in 1722 , an irregular space ; " May - fair Row " and " Hay - hill Row " being , at that time , the only regular buildings . There was , within memory , on the ...
... side wall of the Earl of Chesterfield's garden , in Curzon Street , was , in 1722 , an irregular space ; " May - fair Row " and " Hay - hill Row " being , at that time , the only regular buildings . There was , within memory , on the ...
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... side . This plan also displays ice - houses as then standing in the Green Park . In Mortimer's Universal Directory , published in 1 763 , mention is made of a John Van Nost as following the profession of a statuary in St. Martin's Lane ...
... side . This plan also displays ice - houses as then standing in the Green Park . In Mortimer's Universal Directory , published in 1 763 , mention is made of a John Van Nost as following the profession of a statuary in St. Martin's Lane ...
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... side of the parsonage - house is inscribed , " In memory of Mr. James Gillray , the caricaturist , who departed this life 1st of June 1815 , aged 58 years . ' " 3 The Egyptian Hall , nearly opposite to Bond Street , is a spacious ...
... side of the parsonage - house is inscribed , " In memory of Mr. James Gillray , the caricaturist , who departed this life 1st of June 1815 , aged 58 years . ' " 3 The Egyptian Hall , nearly opposite to Bond Street , is a spacious ...
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... side of the street , that we may re - enter Piccadilly , and arrive at Pall Mall , by way of St. James's Street ... sides 24 A RAMBLE IN.
... side of the street , that we may re - enter Piccadilly , and arrive at Pall Mall , by way of St. James's Street ... sides 24 A RAMBLE IN.
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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.