Modern London; or, London as it is [by P. Cunningham]. [10 eds. Title varies].1851 |
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... reign of Charles II . used to meet . Richmond Hill and Park , beautifully wooded , crown the prospect . The old palace of Sheen , celebrated in the early reigns , yet shows some fragments , incorporated in a modern house , the grounds ...
... reign of Charles II . used to meet . Richmond Hill and Park , beautifully wooded , crown the prospect . The old palace of Sheen , celebrated in the early reigns , yet shows some fragments , incorporated in a modern house , the grounds ...
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... reign of George IV . , on the site of Buckingham House , by John Nash , and completed in the reign of William IV . , but never inhabited by that sovereign , who is said to have expressed his great dislike to the general appear- ance and ...
... reign of George IV . , on the site of Buckingham House , by John Nash , and completed in the reign of William IV . , but never inhabited by that sovereign , who is said to have expressed his great dislike to the general appear- ance and ...
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... reign of William III . , to the occupation of Buckingham Palace by her present Majesty . It was first made a manor by Henry VIII . , and was previously an hospital dedicated to St. James , and founded for fourteen sisters , " maidens ...
... reign of William III . , to the occupation of Buckingham Palace by her present Majesty . It was first made a manor by Henry VIII . , and was previously an hospital dedicated to St. James , and founded for fourteen sisters , " maidens ...
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... reign the whole of White- hall , except the Banqueting - house , was destroyed by fire . William talked of rebuilding it after Inigo's designs , but nothing was done . Anne , his successor , took up her abode in St. James's Palace , and ...
... reign the whole of White- hall , except the Banqueting - house , was destroyed by fire . William talked of rebuilding it after Inigo's designs , but nothing was done . Anne , his successor , took up her abode in St. James's Palace , and ...
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... reign of George I. , and re- altered as we now see it , between 1829 and 1837 , by Sir Robert Smirke . It has never been consecrated . Here , on every Maunday Thursday , ( the day before Good Friday , ) the Queen's eleemosynary bounty ...
... reign of George I. , and re- altered as we now see it , between 1829 and 1837 , by Sir Robert Smirke . It has never been consecrated . Here , on every Maunday Thursday , ( the day before Good Friday , ) the Queen's eleemosynary bounty ...
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Сторінка 103 - The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, 'Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom Whom fate made Brothers in the tomb; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen?
Сторінка 143 - 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 108 - Miltono secundus, was exhibited to Dr. Sprat, then dean of Westminster, he refused to admit it ; the name of Milton was, in his opinion, too detestable to be read on the wall of a building dedicated to devotion.
Сторінка 143 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Сторінка 244 - I give to the master and keepers or wardens and commonalty of the mystery or art of a stationer of the city of London...
Сторінка 244 - Nigh where Fleet Ditch descends in sable streams, To wash his sooty Naiads in the Thames, There stands a structure on a rising hill. Where tyros take their freedom out to kill.
Сторінка 90 - ... imperishable renown; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities ; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.
Сторінка 125 - Whereunto the Clerk replying wrote : ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will.