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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... leading to FAUKESHALL , corruptedly called VAUXHALL . In a record of the reign of Edward I. Faukeshall is said to contain twenty - nine acres of meadow , valued at three shil- lings an acre ; and eighty acres of arable land , at ...
... leading to FAUKESHALL , corruptedly called VAUXHALL . In a record of the reign of Edward I. Faukeshall is said to contain twenty - nine acres of meadow , valued at three shil- lings an acre ; and eighty acres of arable land , at ...
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... leading to a beautiful piazza and colonnade five hundred feet in length , in the form of a semicircle , of Gothic architecture , embellished with rays . In this semicircle are three large temples , each adorned with a dome ; the two ...
... leading to a beautiful piazza and colonnade five hundred feet in length , in the form of a semicircle , of Gothic architecture , embellished with rays . In this semicircle are three large temples , each adorned with a dome ; the two ...
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... leading to the Prince's Gallery , built in 1791 , and opened on masquerade and gala nights only . It is near four hun- dred feet long , and adorned on each side by landscapes in compartments , between paintings of double columns , en ...
... leading to the Prince's Gallery , built in 1791 , and opened on masquerade and gala nights only . It is near four hun- dred feet long , and adorned on each side by landscapes in compartments , between paintings of double columns , en ...
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... leading up the gardens , is formed on the right side by a wilderness , and on the left by rural downs , as they are termed , in the form of a long square , fenced by a net , with little eminences in it after the manner of a Roman camp ...
... leading up the gardens , is formed on the right side by a wilderness , and on the left by rural downs , as they are termed , in the form of a long square , fenced by a net , with little eminences in it after the manner of a Roman camp ...
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... leading into Kent , in which the first object of notice is a house , for- merly a place of public entertainment , denominated THE DOG AND DUCK , which owed its origin to a well of purg- ing water * , that was much resorted to on account ...
... leading into Kent , in which the first object of notice is a house , for- merly a place of public entertainment , denominated THE DOG AND DUCK , which owed its origin to a well of purg- ing water * , that was much resorted to on account ...
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Сторінка 419 - 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 3 - With which she calculates, computes and scans All distance, motion, magnitude, and now Measures an atom, and now girds a world? In London ; where has commerce such a mart, So rich, so throng'd, so drain'd, and so supplied, As London— opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London?
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 375 - 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 59 - Coorooraa, who departed this life on the 27th of December 1784, aged 20 years: this stone is inscribed by the Honourable United...
Сторінка 353 - He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Сторінка 19 - As by their choice collections may appear Of what is rare, in land, in sea, in air. Whilst they (as Homer's Illiad in a nut) A world of wonders in one closet shut. These famous Antiquarians that had been Both gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen Transplanted now themselves, sleep here, and when Angels shall with their trumpets waken men And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise, And change this garden for a Paradise.
Сторінка 268 - 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 303 - 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.