Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons of the Great Town, Том 1R. Bentley, 1865 - 331 стор. |
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... carry him to some place where he best deserved to be buried . The ass proceeded with a gentle and solemn pace through Kent Street , and along the highway , to the small pond once called St. Thomas a Waterings , then the common place of ...
... carry him to some place where he best deserved to be buried . The ass proceeded with a gentle and solemn pace through Kent Street , and along the highway , to the small pond once called St. Thomas a Waterings , then the common place of ...
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... carried on was chiefly confined to our coasts : for this purpose he constructed a vessel , which , for its agility ... carrying cat : that , gentlemen , was Whittington's cat . " There is a strange mixture of banter with fact in the ...
... carried on was chiefly confined to our coasts : for this purpose he constructed a vessel , which , for its agility ... carrying cat : that , gentlemen , was Whittington's cat . " There is a strange mixture of banter with fact in the ...
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... carried off the king's food , and persons were employed to drive them from the royal banquet . Keis produced his cat ; the noxious animals soon disappeared ; and magnificent rewards were bestowed on the adventurer of Siraf , who re ...
... carried off the king's food , and persons were employed to drive them from the royal banquet . Keis produced his cat ; the noxious animals soon disappeared ; and magnificent rewards were bestowed on the adventurer of Siraf , who re ...
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... carried to the Bishop's palace , clothed in a white sheet , with a taper in her hand , and from thence con- ducted to St. Paul's cathedral and the cross , before which she made a confession of her only fault . " Every other virtue ...
... carried to the Bishop's palace , clothed in a white sheet , with a taper in her hand , and from thence con- ducted to St. Paul's cathedral and the cross , before which she made a confession of her only fault . " Every other virtue ...
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... carried with him the dead body of the aforesaid King of Scotts , and lay there until such time as the King's highness came from beyond the sea after his winning of Turwin and Torney . And then his highness sent for him to meet him at ...
... carried with him the dead body of the aforesaid King of Scotts , and lay there until such time as the King's highness came from beyond the sea after his winning of Turwin and Torney . And then his highness sent for him to meet him at ...
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Сторінка 85 - I rather think it was in his face. Much was the hurry and confusion; cloths and napkins were at hand to make all clean. His Majesty then got up and would dance with the Queen of Sheba; but he fell down and humbled himself before her, and was carried to an inner chamber and laid on a bed of state; which was not a little defiled with the presents of the queen which had been bestowed on his garments; such as wine, cream, beverage, cakes, spices, and other good matters.
Сторінка 89 - 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...
Сторінка 170 - Sessions-House at the Old Bailey. There were not, I believe, a hundred; but they did their work at leisure, in full security, without sentinels, without trepidation, as men lawfully employed, in full day: Such is the cowardice of a commercial place.
Сторінка 159 - Heaven ! of woes like ours, And let us, let us weep no more.' The dismal scene was o'er and past, The lover's mournful hearse retired ; The maid drew back her languid head, And, sighing forth his name, expired.
Сторінка 86 - Now did Peace make entry, and strive to get foremost to the king ; but I grieve to tell how great wrath she did discover unto those of her attendants ; and, much contrary to her semblance, most rudely made war with her olive branch, and laid on the pates of those who did oppose her coming.
Сторінка 118 - I find the Duke of Albemarle at dinner with sorry company, some of his officers of the Army: dirty dishes and a nasty wife at table, and bad meat, of which I made but an ill dinner.
Сторінка 154 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Сторінка 85 - I think the Dane hath strangely wrought on our good English nobles; for those whom I could never get to taste good liquor, now follow the fashion, and wallow in beastly delights. The ladies abandon their sobriety, and are seen to roll about in intoxication.
Сторінка 245 - ... how at the head of his troop he stopped a lady's coach, in which there was a booty of four hundred pounds ; how he took only one hundred, and suffered the fair owner to ransom the rest by dancing a coranto with him on the heath...
Сторінка 98 - ... that night, to the Blue Boar Inn in Holborn ; for there he was to take horse, and go to Dover with it. This messenger knew nothing of the letter in the saddle, but some persons in Dover did.