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... stands , rose the dazzling domes and towers of the proud palace of the elfin king Oberon . Clustering round the dwelling place of their monarch . were the crowded streets and glittering spires of the capital of the fairy empire . Its ...
... stands , rose the dazzling domes and towers of the proud palace of the elfin king Oberon . Clustering round the dwelling place of their monarch . were the crowded streets and glittering spires of the capital of the fairy empire . Its ...
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... stands Holland House . The dominions of another , whose name was Oriel , stretched along the banks of the Thames , and his wealth and generosity were bound- less . The " cleanly servant , " the " careful wife , " and the " neat ...
... stands Holland House . The dominions of another , whose name was Oriel , stretched along the banks of the Thames , and his wealth and generosity were bound- less . The " cleanly servant , " the " careful wife , " and the " neat ...
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... stands , then along Hyde Park railings to the Marble Arch , and so through Oxford Street . We should see then about twelve hundred acres of this land , some patches of it better cultivated than the rest . Some straggling vines would ...
... stands , then along Hyde Park railings to the Marble Arch , and so through Oxford Street . We should see then about twelve hundred acres of this land , some patches of it better cultivated than the rest . Some straggling vines would ...
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... stand and deliver . Such inconveniences did not pre vent Kensington from be- coming the most fashionable of the London suburbs . It enjoyed almost uninterrupted royal patronage for about seventy years . This is the heyday of Kenna's ...
... stand and deliver . Such inconveniences did not pre vent Kensington from be- coming the most fashionable of the London suburbs . It enjoyed almost uninterrupted royal patronage for about seventy years . This is the heyday of Kenna's ...
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... stands and the High Street of Notting Hill , is a wild , untidy gravel pit . Now look toward Kensington . Just behind us a building is in course of erection ; a substantial red brick mansion , at present veiled in scaffolding . Do you ...
... stands and the High Street of Notting Hill , is a wild , untidy gravel pit . Now look toward Kensington . Just behind us a building is in course of erection ; a substantial red brick mansion , at present veiled in scaffolding . Do you ...
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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...