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... Hall , belonging to one of the richest of the City companies ; and with scarcely less striking structures converted into hotels . Passing up Fish - street - hill is seen , from base to summit , the Monument , erected to commemorate the ...
... Hall , belonging to one of the richest of the City companies ; and with scarcely less striking structures converted into hotels . Passing up Fish - street - hill is seen , from base to summit , the Monument , erected to commemorate the ...
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... Hall , and the third in the New Palace of Westminster , whose towers , rising to a gigantic height , break in from point to point upon the sight . This spot , indeed , might be considered the intellectual centre of the Metropolis ...
... Hall , and the third in the New Palace of Westminster , whose towers , rising to a gigantic height , break in from point to point upon the sight . This spot , indeed , might be considered the intellectual centre of the Metropolis ...
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... hall , and its kitchen planned by M. Soyer , and the Conservative and Army and Navy Clubs , the staircases and apartments of both of which are very beautiful . Returning now to Waterloo - place , after noticing for a few moments the ...
... hall , and its kitchen planned by M. Soyer , and the Conservative and Army and Navy Clubs , the staircases and apartments of both of which are very beautiful . Returning now to Waterloo - place , after noticing for a few moments the ...
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... and at Guildhall and Westminster Hall . A shilling to a doorkeeper will generally secure a good seat . The confusion in the nomenclature of London streets demands correction in London . ] xxxi § 17. GENERAL HINTS TO STRANGERS .
... and at Guildhall and Westminster Hall . A shilling to a doorkeeper will generally secure a good seat . The confusion in the nomenclature of London streets demands correction in London . ] xxxi § 17. GENERAL HINTS TO STRANGERS .
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... halls . The Goldsmiths ' dinners , given in their magnificent hall , behind the General Post Office , exhibit a grand display of gold plate . Some of the Companies , again , the Fishmongers , Merchant Tailors , & c . , are famous for ...
... halls . The Goldsmiths ' dinners , given in their magnificent hall , behind the General Post Office , exhibit a grand display of gold plate . Some of the Companies , again , the Fishmongers , Merchant Tailors , & c . , are famous for ...
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Сторінка 109 - 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 48 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Сторінка 132 - JOHN NEWTON, CLERK, Once an infidel and libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, pardoned, And appointed to preach the faith he Had long laboured to destroy, Near 16 years at Olney in Bucks ; And — years in this church.
Сторінка 147 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Сторінка 98 - Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and St Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted...
Сторінка 244 - Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of the Stationers of the City of London," the only London Company entirely restricted to the members of its own craft.
Сторінка 114 - I do not remember to have seen before, and which, upon examination, proved to be a whole length of the celebrated Mr. Garrick. Though I would not go so far with some good catholics abroad as to shut players altogether out of consecrated ground, yet I own I was not a little scandalized at the introduction of theatrical airs and gestures into a place set apart to remind us of the saddest...
Сторінка 109 - Duchess exposed herself by placing a monument and silly epitaph, of her own composition and bad spelling, to Congreve, in Westminster Abbey, her mother, quoting the words, said, " I know not what pleasure she might have in his company, but I am sure it was no honour."* With her youngest daughter, the Duchess of Montagu, old Sarah agreed as ill.
Сторінка 128 - D"' 1680, 70 circiter), and buried 27, according to his owne appointment in the churchyard of Covent Garden ; sc. in the north part next the church at the east end. His feet touch the wall. His grave, 2 yards distant from the pillaster of the dore, (by his desire) 6 foot deepe. About 25 of his old acquaintance at his funeral : I myself being one.
Сторінка 30 - There is not a gem, a coin, a book thrown aside on his chimney-piece, his sofa, his table, that does not bespeak an almost fastidious elegance in the possessor.