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... beautiful gates . The manor of Hyde Park in early times belonged to the Abbey of West- minster ; at the period of the Reformation , how- ever , it became the property of the Crown . It is the place of rendezvous and fashionable prome ...
... beautiful gates . The manor of Hyde Park in early times belonged to the Abbey of West- minster ; at the period of the Reformation , how- ever , it became the property of the Crown . It is the place of rendezvous and fashionable prome ...
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... beautiful flower- beds , lofty elms and dwarf shrubs , and green sward divided by gravelled walks ; while the lake , with its fountain and artificial islands ( the latter designed for the accommodation of the numerous water - fowl ) ...
... beautiful flower- beds , lofty elms and dwarf shrubs , and green sward divided by gravelled walks ; while the lake , with its fountain and artificial islands ( the latter designed for the accommodation of the numerous water - fowl ) ...
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... beautiful view , on the north , of Piccadilly ; on the south , of St. James's Park , on the east , of Pall Mall ; and the Clubs ; and on the west , of Buckingham Palace and the Green Park , with the celebrated Welling- ton statue and ...
... beautiful view , on the north , of Piccadilly ; on the south , of St. James's Park , on the east , of Pall Mall ; and the Clubs ; and on the west , of Buckingham Palace and the Green Park , with the celebrated Welling- ton statue and ...
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... beautiful fountain . St. James's Park is very picturesque from what- ever point it is surveyed ; its adjacent buildings , including the Palace , the Abbey , and the Houses of Parliament , add a charm unequalled by any other public ...
... beautiful fountain . St. James's Park is very picturesque from what- ever point it is surveyed ; its adjacent buildings , including the Palace , the Abbey , and the Houses of Parliament , add a charm unequalled by any other public ...
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... beautiful chapel surpasses any specimen of the florid Gothic in the world . HENRY VII.'S CHAPEL . The entire length of Westminster Abbey measures five hundred and thirty feet , length of transept two hundred and fourteen feet , and the ...
... beautiful chapel surpasses any specimen of the florid Gothic in the world . HENRY VII.'S CHAPEL . The entire length of Westminster Abbey measures five hundred and thirty feet , length of transept two hundred and fourteen feet , and the ...
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Page 261 - 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 114 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 231 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors. The Grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings. But Theodore this lesson learn' d, ere dead ; Fate pour"d its lessons on his living head, Bestow'da kingdom and denied him bread.
Page 194 - MY prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done!
Page 134 - Thames' broad, aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride...
Page 15 - I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people. They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change; a...
Page 138 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly.
Page 150 - ... should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
Page 226 - Osborne was a man entirely destitute of shame, without sense of any disgrace but that of poverty. He told me, when he was doing that which raised Pope's resentment, that he should be put into The Dunciad; but he had the fate of
Page 139 - ... head that he ought to have done the honours of his literary residence to a foreign lady of quality, and, eager to show himself a man of gallantry, was hurrying down the staircase in violent agitation. He overtook us before we reached the...