The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated ResidentsRichard Bentley, 1849 - 444 էջ |
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... took sanctuary here - Masques and revels for the Duke of Anjou near the Abbey - Cruel punishment inflicted in the days of good Queen Bess - The Almonry - Attempt of the proud Protector Somerset to demolish St. Mar- garet's Church ...
... took sanctuary here - Masques and revels for the Duke of Anjou near the Abbey - Cruel punishment inflicted in the days of good Queen Bess - The Almonry - Attempt of the proud Protector Somerset to demolish St. Mar- garet's Church ...
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... took part , such was the enthusiasm of the Roundheads against the Cavaliers in erecting these fortresses all round both London and Southwark . As Butler sings in his Hudibras , " From ladies down to oyster - wenches , Laboured like ...
... took part , such was the enthusiasm of the Roundheads against the Cavaliers in erecting these fortresses all round both London and Southwark . As Butler sings in his Hudibras , " From ladies down to oyster - wenches , Laboured like ...
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... took denomination , because it was then the outmost or skirt house of the suburbs that way . Others say it took name from this , that one Higgin , a tailor , who built it , got most of his estate by Pickadilles , which , in the last age ...
... took denomination , because it was then the outmost or skirt house of the suburbs that way . Others say it took name from this , that one Higgin , a tailor , who built it , got most of his estate by Pickadilles , which , in the last age ...
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... took place . Some person in the pit called out that , if the ladies and gentlemen who were impatient would pay double price , he would walk into a pint bottle ! A burst of laughter followed the announcement ; the spectators became ...
... took place . Some person in the pit called out that , if the ladies and gentlemen who were impatient would pay double price , he would walk into a pint bottle ! A burst of laughter followed the announcement ; the spectators became ...
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... took place at the " Two Blue Flower - pots , " in Dean Street , Soho , Jan. 5th , 1714. The first lot was Aumailkey's own portrait - a three- quarter's , and sold for 2s . 6d . The second portrait was of himself also - it was painted by ...
... took place at the " Two Blue Flower - pots , " in Dean Street , Soho , Jan. 5th , 1714. The first lot was Aumailkey's own portrait - a three- quarter's , and sold for 2s . 6d . The second portrait was of himself also - it was painted by ...
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The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated Residents John Thomas Smith Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1854 |
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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.