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... formed in Hyde Park , and this brought many visitors to the Old Court Suburb . The first festival of this description was in honour of the King's accession . The Countess Cowper writes thus in her KENSINGTON PALACE . 75.
... formed in Hyde Park , and this brought many visitors to the Old Court Suburb . The first festival of this description was in honour of the King's accession . The Countess Cowper writes thus in her KENSINGTON PALACE . 75.
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... formed seven years later in honour of the King's birthday . Pope , in one of his letters , tells a certain fair correspondent that she " will be infinitely delighted with the camp , which is speedily to be formed in Hyde Park . " In ...
... formed seven years later in honour of the King's birthday . Pope , in one of his letters , tells a certain fair correspondent that she " will be infinitely delighted with the camp , which is speedily to be formed in Hyde Park . " In ...
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... formed the subject of our first chapter , is separated by a long train of centuries from their authentic history . That is at first mixed up with the history of Hyde Park , for both parks are the remains of a vast forest , which in the ...
... formed the subject of our first chapter , is separated by a long train of centuries from their authentic history . That is at first mixed up with the history of Hyde Park , for both parks are the remains of a vast forest , which in the ...
Page 115
Robert Weir Brown. capital in Tickell's poem ) . The unsightly hollow was formed into a beautiful dell , and close beside an artificial mound was raised . The traces of this latter structure still remain . It was , according to Miss ...
Robert Weir Brown. capital in Tickell's poem ) . The unsightly hollow was formed into a beautiful dell , and close beside an artificial mound was raised . The traces of this latter structure still remain . It was , according to Miss ...
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... formed . There was also some talk about fountains and pleasure boats , but these are the offspring of a later age . At the same time , the Round Pond was excavated , and thence long vistas stretched through the surrounding woods , to ...
... formed . There was also some talk about fountains and pleasure boats , but these are the offspring of a later age . At the same time , the Round Pond was excavated , and thence long vistas stretched through the surrounding woods , to ...
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Page 89 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, Parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and Pride that licks the dust.
Page 98 - The road between this place (Kensington) and London is grown so infamously bad, that we live here in the same solitude as we should do if cast on a rock in the middle of the ocean, and all the Londoners tell us there is between them and us a great impassable gulf of mud.
Page 90 - ... for the day of the week, and a watch for the hour of the day, you may inform yourself fully, without any other intelligence but your memory, of every transaction within the verge of the Court. Walking, chaises, levées, and audiences fill the morning.
Page 232 - IMPROMPTU, Suggested by a View, in 1766, of the Scat and Ruins of a Deceased Nobleman, at Kingsgate, Kent. Old, and abandon'd by each venal friend, Here H dt form'd the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution.
Page 27 - BONAPARTE. NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION, completed by the insertion of above One Hundred Birds omitted in the original Work, and Illustrated by valuable Notes, and Life of the Author, by Sir WILLIAM JARDINE.
Page 268 - ... who found himself for the first time among Ambassadors and Earls. They will remember that constant flow of conversation, so natural, so animated, so various, so rich with observation and anecdote ; that wit which never gave a wound ; that exquisite mimicry which ennobled, instead of degrading; that goodness of heart which appeared in every look and accent, and gave additional value to every talent and acquirement.
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Page 97 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
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Page 268 - The time is coming when perhaps a few old men, the last survivors of our generation, will in vain seek, amidst new streets, and squares, and railway stations, for the site of that dwelling...