Ambulator: Or, a Pocket Companion in a Tour Round London, Within the Circuit of Twenty-five Miles: ...T. Gillet, 1800 - 252 pages |
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... east of London Bridge , is furrounded by a wall and ditch , which inclofe feveral streets , befide the building pro- perly called the Tower . Here are fome artillery ; a magazine of fimall arms for 60,000 men , ranged in beautiful order ...
... east of London Bridge , is furrounded by a wall and ditch , which inclofe feveral streets , befide the building pro- perly called the Tower . Here are fome artillery ; a magazine of fimall arms for 60,000 men , ranged in beautiful order ...
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... east those of Sir Thomas Gresham , and on the west those of the Mercer's Company . In thefe intercolumniations are 24 niches , 20 of which are filled with the ftatues of the Kings and Queens of England . In the centre of the area is the ...
... east those of Sir Thomas Gresham , and on the west those of the Mercer's Company . In thefe intercolumniations are 24 niches , 20 of which are filled with the ftatues of the Kings and Queens of England . In the centre of the area is the ...
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... EAST INDIA HOUSE , in Leadenhall Street , was built in 1726. A handfome front has lately been conftructed , 190 feet in length from east to weft ; the principal story is plain funk ruftic , with five circular windows in each wing ; the ...
... EAST INDIA HOUSE , in Leadenhall Street , was built in 1726. A handfome front has lately been conftructed , 190 feet in length from east to weft ; the principal story is plain funk ruftic , with five circular windows in each wing ; the ...
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... east and weft , a ftreet is to be formed , beyond which the wings are to be carried . The front to the Thames is erected on a noble terrace , 53 feet wide ; and the building , when finished , will extend about 1100 feet . This Terrace ...
... east and weft , a ftreet is to be formed , beyond which the wings are to be carried . The front to the Thames is erected on a noble terrace , 53 feet wide ; and the building , when finished , will extend about 1100 feet . This Terrace ...
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... East India trade , and thofe to Turkey and Hudfon's Bay . " Thus London has rifen to its prefent rank of the first city in Europe with refpe & t to opulence ; and nearly , if not entirely fo , as to the number of inhabitants . Paris and ...
... East India trade , and thofe to Turkey and Hudfon's Bay . " Thus London has rifen to its prefent rank of the first city in Europe with refpe & t to opulence ; and nearly , if not entirely fo , as to the number of inhabitants . Paris and ...
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Page 83 - Where'er he turns, he meets a stranger's eye, His suppliants scorn him, and his followers fly ; Now drops at once the pride of awful state, The golden canopy, the glitt'ring plate, The regal palace, the luxurious board, The liv'ried army, and the menial lord.
Page 66 - 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!
Page 66 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! 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.
Page 38 - Into his freshened soul; her genial hours He full enjoys ; and not a beauty blows, And not an opening blossom breathes in vain.
Page 100 - We find our tenets just the same at last. Both fairly owning Riches, in effect, No grace of Heaven or token of th' elect; Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil, To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil.
Page 204 - under the greenwood tree," where fair Rosalind had rested, and where melancholy Jaques had mused and mourned? And as I walked along, how instinct with his spirit did each spot appear! There was the oak — " Whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along the wood.
Page 210 - ... to carry on approaches that way. On the side next the river, is a very strong curtain, with a noble gate, called the Watergate, in the middle, and the ditch is palisadoed.
Page 164 - We are apt to think, that Sir William Temple and king William were, in a manner, the introducers of gardening into England; but, by the description of lord Burleigh's gardens at Theobalds, and of those at Nonsuch, we find that the magnificent, though false taste was known here as early as the reigns of Henry VIII. and his daughter. There is scarce an unnatural and sumptuous impropriety at Versailles, which we do not find in Hentzner's...
Page 25 - Monks, and Jargon-teaching Schools, Led forth the true Philosophy, there long Held in the Magic Chain of Words and Forms, And Definitions void: he led Her forth, Daughter of Heaven! that, slow-ascending still, Investigating sure the Chain of Things, With radiant Finger points to Heaven again.
Page 104 - Ceres, holding in the one hand a wheatsheaf, and pointing with the other to loaves of bread. At the feet of Ceres is Flora, surrounded by her attendants, and holding a chaplet of flowers. Near her are the two river gods, Thame and Isis, with their urns, and in the centre, a large table decorated with flowers.