London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation, Volume 5W. Stratford, 1808 - London (England) |
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... built of three stories high , and a fair stair - case breaking out from it nineteen feet square . " It had been surrendered to the crown in 1629 by John Abrahall , the tenant , and heir of Sir Thomas Parry ; and was then iden- tified as ...
... built of three stories high , and a fair stair - case breaking out from it nineteen feet square . " It had been surrendered to the crown in 1629 by John Abrahall , the tenant , and heir of Sir Thomas Parry ; and was then iden- tified as ...
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... 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- circled in a spiral form by ...
... 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- circled in a spiral form by ...
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... built here by a subscription of the inhabitants . In South Lambeth lived the Tradescants , father and son , who made the celebrated collection of rarities , described in a book , printed at London , in 1656 , called Museum Tradescan ...
... built here by a subscription of the inhabitants . In South Lambeth lived the Tradescants , father and son , who made the celebrated collection of rarities , described in a book , printed at London , in 1656 , called Museum Tradescan ...
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... built on the site , which was oc- eupied by Charles I. when prince of Wales . In a survey , taken in 1656 , this manor house is said to be " small , and an old low timber building , situate upon part of the foun- dation of the antient ...
... built on the site , which was oc- eupied by Charles I. when prince of Wales . In a survey , taken in 1656 , this manor house is said to be " small , and an old low timber building , situate upon part of the foun- dation of the antient ...
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... built a large room for the accommodation of com- pany , and furnished it with an organ , and other induce ments to draw company ; but ultimately the incroach . ments upon decency and order became so great , that the * Dr. Russel , in ...
... built a large room for the accommodation of com- pany , and furnished it with an organ , and other induce ments to draw company ; but ultimately the incroach . ments upon decency and order became so great , that the * Dr. Russel , in ...
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Page 442 - 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 442 - 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 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.
Page 472 - your blood will run no longer." Waller repeated some lines of Virgil, and went home to die. As the disease increased upon him, he composed himself for his departure ; and calling upon Dr. Birch to give him the holy sacrament, he desired his children to take it with him, and made an earnest declaration of his faith in Christianity. It now appeared what part of his conversation with the great could be remembered with delight.
Page 423 - 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.
Page 475 - Spring was published next year, with a dedication to the countess of Hertford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hertford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons.
Page 379 - 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...
Page 272 - 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.
Page 307 - 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.
Page 270 - He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a walk made by Pitt; and, what is of far more importance, at Wickham Lyttelton received that conviction which produced his , Dissertation on St. Paul.