London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation, Volumul 5W. Stratford, 1808 |
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Pagina 7
... James I. * The LONG GALLERY , built by cardinal Pole , ' is ninety feet by sixteen . The wainscot remains in its original state , being all of mantled carving . In the windows are coats of arms of different archbishops . It is filled ...
... James I. * The LONG GALLERY , built by cardinal Pole , ' is ninety feet by sixteen . The wainscot remains in its original state , being all of mantled carving . In the windows are coats of arms of different archbishops . It is filled ...
Pagina 17
... James , and Matthew ; and herein the Reader may see express'd the Good- ness of the deceased Husband , and the thankfulness of a sur- viving Wife . Within the altar rails , on a spacious marble grave - stone : Hic jacet Richardus ...
... James , and Matthew ; and herein the Reader may see express'd the Good- ness of the deceased Husband , and the thankfulness of a sur- viving Wife . Within the altar rails , on a spacious marble grave - stone : Hic jacet Richardus ...
Pagina 20
... James II . when she fled with her infant son , from the ruin impending over the royal family , took shelter for a whole hour , in the rain , during the inclement night of December 6 , 1688 , after having crossed the river from Whitehall ...
... James II . when she fled with her infant son , from the ruin impending over the royal family , took shelter for a whole hour , in the rain , during the inclement night of December 6 , 1688 , after having crossed the river from Whitehall ...
Pagina 42
... James Hulbert , a liveryman of the company , in 1719. The statue of that gentleman , is in the centre of the square . It appears that the Fishmongers Company erected ST . PETER'S HOSPITAL by virtue of letters patent granted by James I ...
... James Hulbert , a liveryman of the company , in 1719. The statue of that gentleman , is in the centre of the square . It appears that the Fishmongers Company erected ST . PETER'S HOSPITAL by virtue of letters patent granted by James I ...
Pagina 53
... James I. It was at that time of the annual value of 800 / .; the sum paid by Mr. Alleyn for the purchase was 5000l . In the year 1614 , Mr. Alleyn began to erect a commo- dious building for an hospital , from a design by Inigo Jones ...
... James I. It was at that time of the annual value of 800 / .; the sum paid by Mr. Alleyn for the purchase was 5000l . In the year 1614 , Mr. Alleyn began to erect a commo- dious building for an hospital , from a design by Inigo Jones ...
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Pagina 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!
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.