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... built by Julius Cæsar - the sanguinary memo- rial of the terrible despotisms and cruelties of the barbaric age . On the west , the venerable Abbey of Westminster rears itself in lofty and imposing grandeur , within whose mouldering ...
... built by Julius Cæsar - the sanguinary memo- rial of the terrible despotisms and cruelties of the barbaric age . On the west , the venerable Abbey of Westminster rears itself in lofty and imposing grandeur , within whose mouldering ...
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... built , the houses on London bridge pulled down , and most of the city gates removed . Assuming the area of London to be nineteen square miles , it yields a population to each mile of very nearly 130,000 human creatures , perform- ing ...
... built , the houses on London bridge pulled down , and most of the city gates removed . Assuming the area of London to be nineteen square miles , it yields a population to each mile of very nearly 130,000 human creatures , perform- ing ...
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... built , by Inigo Jones , a church in the pure Tuscan style , at that period the only one in England . Merchants resided between Temple - bar and the Exchange . Despera- does , broken - down spendthrifts , and criminals of all grades ...
... built , by Inigo Jones , a church in the pure Tuscan style , at that period the only one in England . Merchants resided between Temple - bar and the Exchange . Despera- does , broken - down spendthrifts , and criminals of all grades ...
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... built 1847-50 , from the designs of Parnell and Smith . The building | cost in all £ 35,000 , exclusive of fittings . The com- paratively small plot of land on which it stands has cost the Club £ 52,500 , and the total expendi- ture may ...
... built 1847-50 , from the designs of Parnell and Smith . The building | cost in all £ 35,000 , exclusive of fittings . The com- paratively small plot of land on which it stands has cost the Club £ 52,500 , and the total expendi- ture may ...
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... built in the year 1839 : the club consists of 1400 members ; the annual subscription being ten guineas , and the entrance fee twenty guineas . This club was founded by the liberal members of the two Houses of Parliament , about the time ...
... built in the year 1839 : the club consists of 1400 members ; the annual subscription being ten guineas , and the entrance fee twenty guineas . This club was founded by the liberal members of the two Houses of Parliament , about the time ...
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Abbey ancient antiquary antiquity apartments Apsley House Bank beautiful Bishop bookseller building built buried called celebrated centre century Chapel Charles Charles II Charles Lamb church of St Churchyard Club corner Court Covent Garden Cromwell Cross Crown decorated died Dryden Duke Earl early east edifice Edward Edward the Confessor eminent England erected famous feet Fleet-street formerly Gallery Garden gate George Goldsmith Gray's Inn Hall head Henry VIII House hundred illustrious Inigo Jones Ionic order James James's Park John Johnson King Lady literary lived Lollards London Bridge Lord magnificent mansion Mary memory Metropolis monument noble occupied Oliver Cromwell once Palace Palace of Westminster Parliament Passing Paul's poet present Prince Queen Elizabeth reign residence Richard Richard II Royal scaffold seen Shakespeare side Sir Thomas Sir Walter Somerset splendid splendor square stands stone street Tavern Temple Thames Tower Hill walls Westminster William Wren
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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...