London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation, Том 5W. Stratford, 1808 |
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... ground ; From theme to theme with secret pleasures tost Amidst the soft variety I'm lost . Here pleasing airs my ravish'd soul confound With circling notes and labyrinth's of sound ; Here domes and temples rise in distant views , And op ...
... ground ; From theme to theme with secret pleasures tost Amidst the soft variety I'm lost . Here pleasing airs my ravish'd soul confound With circling notes and labyrinth's of sound ; Here domes and temples rise in distant views , And op ...
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... ground , and not be ravished with the delightful prospect . The banks of the Seine are not thus adorned from Paris to Roan ; or from Paris to the Loire , above the city : the Danube can shew nothing like it above and below Vienna ; or ...
... ground , and not be ravished with the delightful prospect . The banks of the Seine are not thus adorned from Paris to Roan ; or from Paris to the Loire , above the city : the Danube can shew nothing like it above and below Vienna ; or ...
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... ground in High Street , contains the bones of Mr. EDWARD MOORE , author of the dramas of the Found- ling , Gil Blas , comedies , and the Gamester , a tragedy ; as well as Fables for the female sex ; the trial of Selim , the He died ...
... ground in High Street , contains the bones of Mr. EDWARD MOORE , author of the dramas of the Found- ling , Gil Blas , comedies , and the Gamester , a tragedy ; as well as Fables for the female sex ; the trial of Selim , the He died ...
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... ground , though it had been actually built and inhabited , and though it had received the sanction and approbation of the king , nobility , and prelacy of England . This took place in 1199 . The site was granted by the archbishop to ...
... ground , though it had been actually built and inhabited , and though it had received the sanction and approbation of the king , nobility , and prelacy of England . This took place in 1199 . The site was granted by the archbishop to ...
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... ground on which it stands as a benefaction to the parish ; at the time of the grant it was valued at 267. and lately at 84 / . 10s . per annum . In LAMBETH WALK was a place of public entertainment , called Lambeth Wells . It was at ...
... ground on which it stands as a benefaction to the parish ; at the time of the grant it was valued at 267. and lately at 84 / . 10s . per annum . In LAMBETH WALK was a place of public entertainment , called Lambeth Wells . It was at ...
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Сторінка 442 - No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Сторінка 442 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Сторінка 11 - madam I may not call you, mistress I am ashamed to call you, and so I know not what to call you ; but, howsoever, I thank you.
Сторінка 472 - your blood will run no longer." Waller repeated some lines of Virgil, and went home to die. As the disease increased upon him, he composed himself for his departure ; and calling upon Dr. Birch to give him the holy sacrament, he desired his children to take it with him, and made an earnest declaration of his faith in Christianity. It now appeared what part of his conversation with the great could be remembered with delight.
Сторінка 423 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle"; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner.
Сторінка 475 - Spring was published next year, with a dedication to the countess of Hertford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hertford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons.
Сторінка 379 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Сторінка 272 - Lo! where this silent marble weeps, A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps: A Heart, within whose sacred cell The peaceful Virtues lov'd to dwell. Affection warm, and Faith sincere, And soft Humanity were there. In agony, in death resign'd, She felt the Wound she left behind.
Сторінка 307 - In one of the many curious pamphlets of that period he is described as "a notable man at a thanksgiving dinner, having terrible long teeth and a prodigious stomach, to turn the archbishop's chapel at Croydon into a kitchen ; also to swallow up that palace and lands at a morsel.
Сторінка 270 - He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a walk made by Pitt; and, what is of far more importance, at Wickham Lyttelton received that conviction which produced his , Dissertation on St. Paul.