Memorials to Serve for a History of the Parish of St. Mary, Rotherhithe ...: With a Chapter on the Geology of the Thames Valley and of Rotherhithe by ...

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University Press, 1907 - 270 стор.
 

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Сторінка 147 - August 1783. Stop, reader, stop ! let nature claim a tear — A prince of mine, Lee Boo, lies buried here.
Сторінка 258 - ... as a juggler. If an unlucky session does not cut the rope of thy life, I pronounce, boy, thou wilt be a great man in history. Where was your post last night, my boy ? Filch. I...
Сторінка xiii - Like olive plants they stand, Each answering each in home's soft sympathies, Sisters and brothers. At the Altar sighs Parental fondness, and with anxious hand Tenders its offering of young vows and prayers. The same and not the same, go where I will, The vision beams ! ten thousand shrines, all one. Dear fertile soil ! what foreign culture bears Such fruit ? And I through distant climes may run My weary round, yet miss thy likeness still.
Сторінка 95 - He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at St John's College, Oxford, of which Society he was a Scholar. He married Isabella, daughter of Mr Daniel Roberts, of the firm of Leamonth & Roberts, leather manufacturers, of Bermondsey.
Сторінка 216 - Her Majesty the Queen and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales sent representatives to follow the coffin.
Сторінка 241 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Сторінка 18 - Thames fishermen, as representative of Edric, took his place beside the Prior, and brought in a salmon for St Peter. It was carried in state through the middle of the refectory. The Prior and the whole fraternity rose as it passed up to the high table, and then the fisherman received ale and bread from the cellarer in return for the fish's tail1.
Сторінка 18 - For yourself, go out into the river ; you will catch a plentiful supply of fish, whereof the larger part shall be salmon. This I have granted on two conditions — first, that you never fish again on Sundays; secondly, that you pay a tithe of them to the Abbey of Westminster.
Сторінка 258 - And waked, and wish'd whole nights for thy return? In five long years I took no second spouse; What Redriff wife so long hath kept her vows? Your eyes, your nose, inconstancy betray; Your nose you stop, your eyes you turn away. Tis said, that thou shouldst 'cleave unto thy wife;' Once thou didst cleave, and I could cleave for life.
Сторінка 166 - He could now as easily die as shut his eyes," adding, " Here am I, longing to be silent in the dust, and to enjoy Christ in glory.

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