Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis, with Nearly Sixty Years' Personal RecollectionsLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868 - 871 стор. |
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... Prince of Wales has since been elected President of S. Bartholomew's . Page 41. - Pantheon Bazaar was closed in 1867 , and the building converted into a wine depôt . ( See p . 640. ) Page 49. - Bermondsey Priory . See Annales Monastici ...
... Prince of Wales has since been elected President of S. Bartholomew's . Page 41. - Pantheon Bazaar was closed in 1867 , and the building converted into a wine depôt . ( See p . 640. ) Page 49. - Bermondsey Priory . See Annales Monastici ...
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... Prince Albert was patron . The most numerous Society of the kind now existing is , however , " The Royal Com⚫ pany of Archers , the Queen's body - guard of Scotland , " whose captain - general , the Duke of Buccleuch , rode in the ...
... Prince Albert was patron . The most numerous Society of the kind now existing is , however , " The Royal Com⚫ pany of Archers , the Queen's body - guard of Scotland , " whose captain - general , the Duke of Buccleuch , rode in the ...
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... prince . Charles II . was an accomplished Tennis - player , and had particular dresses for playing in . We have a relic of these times in the Tennis - court in James - street , Haymarket , which bears the date 1676 , and was formerly ...
... prince . Charles II . was an accomplished Tennis - player , and had particular dresses for playing in . We have a relic of these times in the Tennis - court in James - street , Haymarket , which bears the date 1676 , and was formerly ...
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... Prince Rupert himself led up the choice horse to charge them , and endured their storm of small shot , he could make ... Prince Consort , and by a Prince of Wales or heir - apparent of the throne . Its roll of Captains- General and ...
... Prince Rupert himself led up the choice horse to charge them , and endured their storm of small shot , he could make ... Prince Consort , and by a Prince of Wales or heir - apparent of the throne . Its roll of Captains- General and ...
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... Prince Albert to a Governorship of the Hospital was commemorated by the president and treasurer presenting to the foundation three costly silver - gilt dishes , each nearly twenty - four inches in diameter , and richly chased with a ...
... Prince Albert to a Governorship of the Hospital was commemorated by the president and treasurer presenting to the foundation three costly silver - gilt dishes , each nearly twenty - four inches in diameter , and richly chased with a ...
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Сторінка 129 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Сторінка 332 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame; the noise, and cracking, and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry...
Сторінка 117 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey : where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Сторінка 64 - A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Сторінка 341 - To where 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.
Сторінка 248 - In town let me live then, in town let me die, For in truth I can't relish the country, not I ! If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! HANNAH MORE.
Сторінка 264 - I do not know that I meet in any of my walks, objects which move both my spleen and laughter so effectually, as those young fellows at the Grecian, Squire's, Searle's, and all other coffee-houses adjacent to the law, who rise early for no other purpose but to publish their laziness.
Сторінка 315 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Сторінка 420 - He went home with Mr Burke to supper ; and broke his shin by attempting to exhibit to the company how much better he could jump over a stick than the puppets.
Сторінка 462 - Howe come to see us ; and, among other things, told us how the Barristers and Students of Gray's Inne rose in rebellion against the Benchers the other day, who outlawed them, and a great deal of do ; but now they are at peace again.