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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... Duke of Clarence , who resided at the Admiralty . His Royal Highness was thought by the Duke of Wellington , then Premier , to have mixed up with the business of the office too much jaunting and cruising about , presenting of colours ...
... Duke of Clarence , who resided at the Admiralty . His Royal Highness was thought by the Duke of Wellington , then Premier , to have mixed up with the business of the office too much jaunting and cruising about , presenting of colours ...
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... Duke of York becoming members , and dining in public with the new Company . When Queen Anne went to St. Paul's , the ... Duke of Sussex , and Albert , Prince Consort , who was succeeded by the Prince of Wales : on its muster - roll are ...
... Duke of York becoming members , and dining in public with the new Company . When Queen Anne went to St. Paul's , the ... Duke of Sussex , and Albert , Prince Consort , who was succeeded by the Prince of Wales : on its muster - roll are ...
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... Duke , go for Gold ; " advice which was followed , as soon as given , to a prodigious extent . The Duke of Wellington was then very unpopular ; and on Monday , the 14th of May , it being currently believed that the Duke had formed a ...
... Duke , go for Gold ; " advice which was followed , as soon as given , to a prodigious extent . The Duke of Wellington was then very unpopular ; and on Monday , the 14th of May , it being currently believed that the Duke had formed a ...
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... Duke's Bagnio Coffee- house . " A great gate opens into a courtyard , for coaches . In this courtyard is visible the front of the Bagnio , having this inscription upon it in golden letters , upon a carved stone : " The Duke's Bagnio ...
... Duke's Bagnio Coffee- house . " A great gate opens into a courtyard , for coaches . In this courtyard is visible the front of the Bagnio , having this inscription upon it in golden letters , upon a carved stone : " The Duke's Bagnio ...
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... Duke of Buckingham , presented to Richard , Duke of Gloucester , a parchment purporting to be a declaration of the three estates in favour of Richard ; and in the " Court of Baynard's Castle " Shakspeare has laid scenes 3 and 7 , act ...
... Duke of Buckingham , presented to Richard , Duke of Gloucester , a parchment purporting to be a declaration of the three estates in favour of Richard ; and in the " Court of Baynard's Castle " Shakspeare has laid scenes 3 and 7 , act ...
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Сторінка 133 - 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 68 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by 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...
Сторінка 319 - 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 364 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Сторінка 275 - Not far from that most celebrated place, Where angry Justice shows her awful face ; Where little villains must submit to fate, That great ones may enjoy the world in state ; There stands a dome, majestic to the sight, And sumptuous arches bear its oval height ; A golden globe, placed high with artful skill, Seems, to the distant sight, a gilded pill...
Сторінка 121 - 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 337 - ... feast today, Jane called us up about three in the morning to tell us of a great fire they saw in the city. So I rose and slipped on my...
Сторінка 187 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Сторінка 336 - ... houses all in one flame ! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like...
Сторінка 252 - Lord Stanhope, then (now Lord Chesterfield) Lord Herbert, &c. &c. were members. Epigrams were proposed to be written on the glasses, by each member after dinner; once when Dr. Young was invited thither, the doctor would have declined writing, because he had no diamond : Lord Stanhope lent him his, and he wrote immediately — "Accept a miracle...