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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... present work - the Notable Things in the History of London through its Nineteen Centuries of accredited antiquity . Still , I am anxious to offer a few words upon the origin and growth of this volume ; and the means by which I have ...
... present work - the Notable Things in the History of London through its Nineteen Centuries of accredited antiquity . Still , I am anxious to offer a few words upon the origin and growth of this volume ; and the means by which I have ...
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... present . Gilly Williams writes to George Selwyn : - " There is now opened at Almack's , in three very elegant new - built rooms , a ten - guinea subscription , for which you have a ball and supper once a week , for twelve weeks . You ...
... present . Gilly Williams writes to George Selwyn : - " There is now opened at Almack's , in three very elegant new - built rooms , a ten - guinea subscription , for which you have a ball and supper once a week , for twelve weeks . You ...
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... present state , was not played till about 1730 , when it was much studied by a set of gentlemen at the Crown Coffee - house in Bedford - row . Gaming in public was formerly a royal pastime at Christmas : George I. and George II . played ...
... present state , was not played till about 1730 , when it was much studied by a set of gentlemen at the Crown Coffee - house in Bedford - row . Gaming in public was formerly a royal pastime at Christmas : George I. and George II . played ...
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... present the puppets are played by putting the hand under the dress , and making the middle finger and thumb serve for the arms , while the forefinger works the head . Mr. Windham , when one of the Secretaries of State , on his way from ...
... present the puppets are played by putting the hand under the dress , and making the middle finger and thumb serve for the arms , while the forefinger works the head . Mr. Windham , when one of the Secretaries of State , on his way from ...
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... present source , that the tertiary sands are of very limited dimensions ; that the chalk is not a freely permeable deposit ; and that the peculiarities of the saline ingredients depend upon the chemical composition of these formations ...
... present source , that the tertiary sands are of very limited dimensions ; that the chalk is not a freely permeable deposit ; and that the peculiarities of the saline ingredients depend upon the chemical composition of these formations ...
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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...