London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, Τόμος 1J. Murray, 1891 Based upon the Handbook of London, by the late Peter Cunningham. |
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... Queen ( Anne of Bohemia ) to see the jousts at that place . In September of this same year Chaucer was so unfortunate as to be robbed of nearly £ 20 of the King's money , his horse , and other movables - half at Westminster and half ...
... Queen ( Anne of Bohemia ) to see the jousts at that place . In September of this same year Chaucer was so unfortunate as to be robbed of nearly £ 20 of the King's money , his horse , and other movables - half at Westminster and half ...
Σελίδα xxii
... Queen Mary's reign their lives were in such great danger that they had to fly from the country . Between four and five o'clock in the morning of January 1 , 1554-1555 , the Duchess began her adven- turous journey in a thick fog . She ...
... Queen Mary's reign their lives were in such great danger that they had to fly from the country . Between four and five o'clock in the morning of January 1 , 1554-1555 , the Duchess began her adven- turous journey in a thick fog . She ...
Σελίδα xxviii
... Queen Street , which was built about 1629 , and called after Henrietta Maria . In the latter part of Charles I.'s reign and during the Commonwealth Covent Garden became the fashionable quarter . At the Restoration St. James's started ...
... Queen Street , which was built about 1629 , and called after Henrietta Maria . In the latter part of Charles I.'s reign and during the Commonwealth Covent Garden became the fashionable quarter . At the Restoration St. James's started ...
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... Queen Victoria Street ) ; on a token of the 17th century , Adlin Hill . About this time it appears to have been in favour with printers . The Shoemakers ' Holiday was printed in 1600 by " Valentine Sims , dwelling at the foot of Adling ...
... Queen Victoria Street ) ; on a token of the 17th century , Adlin Hill . About this time it appears to have been in favour with printers . The Shoemakers ' Holiday was printed in 1600 by " Valentine Sims , dwelling at the foot of Adling ...
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... Queen Anne , 1702-1708 ; Thomas , Earl of Pembroke , for a short time in 1709 ; and the Duke of Clarence , afterwards King William IV . , in 1827-1828 . Among the First Lords Commissioners we may find the names of Anson , Hawke , Howe ...
... Queen Anne , 1702-1708 ; Thomas , Earl of Pembroke , for a short time in 1709 ; and the Duke of Clarence , afterwards King William IV . , in 1827-1828 . Among the First Lords Commissioners we may find the names of Anson , Hawke , Howe ...
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London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions Henry Benjamin Wheatley,Peter Cunningham Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2011 |
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Σελίδα 32 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Σελίδα 523 - The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Σελίδα 529 - To fancy they could live a year! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme.
Σελίδα 237 - I have been many a time in the chambers in the Temple which were his, and passed up the staircase, which Johnson and Burke and Reynolds trod to see their friend, their poet, their kind Goldsmith...
Σελίδα 499 - Welcome all who lead or follow, To the Oracle of APOLLO Here he speaks out of his pottle, Or the tripos, his tower bottle : All his answers are divine, Truth itself doth flow in wine. Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers, Cries old SIM, the king of skinkers ; ' He the half of life abuses, That sits watering with the Muses.
Σελίδα 315 - It is said that when Addison had suffered any vexation from the Countess he withdrew the company from Button's house. From the coffee-house he went again to a tavern, where he often sat late and drank too much wine.
Σελίδα 107 - Johnson appeared bustling about, with an ink-horn and pen in his button-hole, like an exciseman ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Σελίδα xxiv - Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.
Σελίδα 307 - Yet Burlington's fair palace still remains ; Beauty within, without proportion, reigns. Beneath his eye declining art revives, The wall with animated picture lives ; There Handel strikes the strings, the melting strain Transports the soul, and thrills through every vein ; There oft I enter, (but with cleaner shoes,) For Burlington's belov'd by every Muse.
Σελίδα 416 - By yea and nay, sir, I dare say my cousin William is become a good scholar: he is at Oxford still, is he not? SILENCE. Indeed, sir, to my cost. SHALLOW. A' must, then, to the inns o