Chronicles of London BridgeW. Tegg, 1862 - 518 стор. |
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... King filled his cellars with twenty casks and one pipe of red wine of Gascoigne , free of duty . This you have on ... King of Arms , and the rest of the Royal Heralds and Pursui- vants , in 1485 . " — " True , Mr. Geoffrey , true ...
... King filled his cellars with twenty casks and one pipe of red wine of Gascoigne , free of duty . This you have on ... King of Arms , and the rest of the Royal Heralds and Pursui- vants , in 1485 . " — " True , Mr. Geoffrey , true ...
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... King Olaf , how- ever , I wish you to observe the paction which he made with the English King Ethelred , for we shall find him hereafter closely connected with the history of London Bridge . The same authority , and under the same year ...
... King Olaf , how- ever , I wish you to observe the paction which he made with the English King Ethelred , for we shall find him hereafter closely connected with the history of London Bridge . The same authority , and under the same year ...
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... King Sweyn's - laws : the Citizens of London alone , with their lawful King'- Ethelred the Second - betook themselves within the walls , having securely closed the gates . Against their ferocious assailants , the Danes , they were ...
... King Sweyn's - laws : the Citizens of London alone , with their lawful King'- Ethelred the Second - betook themselves within the walls , having securely closed the gates . Against their ferocious assailants , the Danes , they were ...
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... King Ethelred being thereby enraged , yet anxiously desirous of finding out some means by which he might gain the Bridge , at once assembled the Chiefs of the army to a conference on the best method of destroying it . Upon this , King ...
... King Ethelred being thereby enraged , yet anxiously desirous of finding out some means by which he might gain the Bridge , at once assembled the Chiefs of the army to a conference on the best method of destroying it . Upon this , King ...
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... King Ethelred , thus begins his account of the action , entitling it , in the Scan- dinavian tongue , Orrosta , or the fight . ' King Olaf , hav- ing determined on the construction of an immense scaf- fold , to be formed of wooden poles ...
... King Ethelred , thus begins his account of the action , entitling it , in the Scan- dinavian tongue , Orrosta , or the fight . ' King Olaf , hav- ing determined on the construction of an immense scaf- fold , to be formed of wooden poles ...
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Сторінка 109 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Сторінка 490 - The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide ; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Сторінка 224 - Then marched he forward out of his own house at Westminster, passing through all London over London Bridge, having before him of gentlemen a great number, three in rank, in black velvet livery coats, and the most part of them with great chains of gold about their necks.
Сторінка 446 - Friends, now is your time to support the freedom of the press. Can the press have greater liberty ? here you find it working in the middle of the Thames ; and if you encourage us by buying our impressions, we will keep it going in the true spirit of liberty during the frost.
Сторінка 2 - It ascends me into the brain ; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, — the tongue, — which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Сторінка 341 - Bridge, narrow, darksome, and dangerous to passengers from the multitude of carriages ; frequent arches of strong timber crossing the street from the tops of the houses, to keep them together and from falling into the river.
Сторінка 337 - This humour took so universally that it was estimated the printer gained ^5 a day for printing a line only at sixpence a name, besides what he got by ballads, &c. Coaches plied from Westminster to the Temple, and from several other...
Сторінка 105 - ... Lady Lee ; Build it up with iron and steel, With a gay lady. Iron and steel will bend and bow, Dance o'er my Lady Lee ; Iron and steel will bend and bow, With a gay lady. Build it up with wood and clay, Dance o'er my Lady Lee ; Build it up with wood and clay, With a gay lady.
Сторінка 313 - As through a floating wood, he steered along. And dancing castles clustered in a throng; When he beheld a mighty bridge give law Unto his surges, and their fury awe, When such a shelf of cataracts did roar, As if the Thames with Nile had...
Сторінка 425 - The ghosts of traitors from the Bridge descend, With bold fanatic spectres to rejoice; About the fire into a dance they bend And sing their sabbath notes with feeble voice.