London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation, Том 5W. Stratford, 1808 |
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... built by archbishop Morton , about the year 1490 . The PRESENCE CHAMBER has three windows adorned with painted glass , representing St. Jerome and St. Gre- gory , with old English verses beneath them . The middle window has a painted ...
... built by archbishop Morton , about the year 1490 . The PRESENCE CHAMBER has three windows adorned with painted glass , representing St. Jerome and St. Gre- gory , with old English verses beneath them . The middle window has a painted ...
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... built before the year 1424. It is roofed like the hall . Adjoining to this are a drawing room and dressing room , built by archbishop Cornwallis . The gardens and park , which contain near thirteen acres , are laid out with taste . They ...
... built before the year 1424. It is roofed like the hall . Adjoining to this are a drawing room and dressing room , built by archbishop Cornwallis . The gardens and park , which contain near thirteen acres , are laid out with taste . They ...
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... built for his Family . He was exceeding glad at the beautifying of this House : and tho not quite finished , was begun in his time . Being full of Hope , he departed this Life , the 18th of May 1704 , Aged 61 Years . On a flat stone on ...
... built for his Family . He was exceeding glad at the beautifying of this House : and tho not quite finished , was begun in his time . Being full of Hope , he departed this Life , the 18th of May 1704 , Aged 61 Years . On a flat stone on ...
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... built and inhabited , and though it had received the sanction and approbation of the king , nobility , and prelacy of England . This took place in 1199 . The site was granted by the archbishop to Gilbert de Glanville , bishop of ...
... built and inhabited , and though it had received the sanction and approbation of the king , nobility , and prelacy of England . This took place in 1199 . The site was granted by the archbishop to Gilbert de Glanville , bishop of ...
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... built in 1786 ; the diameter is forty- four feet , and the dome is supported by eight lofty pillars . On the right this walk is terminated by a fine statue of Apollo ; and , at the extremity on the left , is a painting of a stone quarry ...
... built in 1786 ; the diameter is forty- four feet , and the dome is supported by eight lofty pillars . On the right this walk is terminated by a fine statue of Apollo ; and , at the extremity on the left , is a painting of a stone quarry ...
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Сторінка 419 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Сторінка 3 - With which she calculates, computes and scans All distance, motion, magnitude, and now Measures an atom, and now girds a world? In London ; where has commerce such a mart, So rich, so throng'd, so drain'd, and so supplied, As London— opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London?
Сторінка 11 - madam I may not call you, mistress I am ashamed to call you, and so I know not what to call you ; but, howsoever, I thank you.
Сторінка 375 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Сторінка 59 - Coorooraa, who departed this life on the 27th of December 1784, aged 20 years: this stone is inscribed by the Honourable United...
Сторінка 353 - He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Сторінка 19 - As by their choice collections may appear Of what is rare, in land, in sea, in air. Whilst they (as Homer's Illiad in a nut) A world of wonders in one closet shut. These famous Antiquarians that had been Both gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen Transplanted now themselves, sleep here, and when Angels shall with their trumpets waken men And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise, And change this garden for a Paradise.
Сторінка 268 - Lo! where this silent marble weeps, A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps: A Heart, within whose sacred cell The peaceful Virtues lov'd to dwell. Affection warm, and Faith sincere, And soft Humanity were there. In agony, in death resign'd, She felt the Wound she left behind.
Сторінка 303 - In one of the many curious pamphlets of that period he is described as "a notable man at a thanksgiving dinner, having terrible long teeth and a prodigious stomach, to turn the archbishop's chapel at Croydon into a kitchen ; also to swallow up that palace and lands at a morsel.