The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated ResidentsRichard Bentley, 1849 - 444 páginas |
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... lived and died here - Events here during Cromwell's reign - The residence of Richard Cromwell - The " Merry Court " of Charles II . here - His death - The residence of James II . Nearly destroyed by Fire - Converted into a chapel 82 ...
... lived and died here - Events here during Cromwell's reign - The residence of Richard Cromwell - The " Merry Court " of Charles II . here - His death - The residence of James II . Nearly destroyed by Fire - Converted into a chapel 82 ...
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... lived a poet ; there in that lane a great man died in want and sorrow ; here in this street another great man surmounted difficulties , that to weaker minds would have been insurmountable ; and here in this square lived the friend of ...
... lived a poet ; there in that lane a great man died in want and sorrow ; here in this street another great man surmounted difficulties , that to weaker minds would have been insurmountable ; and here in this square lived the friend of ...
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... lived in the house , now Mr. Partington's , No. 57 , on the south side of Brook Street , four doors from Bond Street , and two from the gateway . Queensberry House , in Burlington Gardens , the residence of Gay's noble patrons , the ...
... lived in the house , now Mr. Partington's , No. 57 , on the south side of Brook Street , four doors from Bond Street , and two from the gateway . Queensberry House , in Burlington Gardens , the residence of Gay's noble patrons , the ...
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... requested to bring smelling - bottles . " This Broughton lived to the age of eighty - five , and died in 1789. He was many years a Yeoman of the Guard . CHAPTER II . The Italian Opera House - Nature of THE STREETS OF LONDON . 23.
... requested to bring smelling - bottles . " This Broughton lived to the age of eighty - five , and died in 1789. He was many years a Yeoman of the Guard . CHAPTER II . The Italian Opera House - Nature of THE STREETS OF LONDON . 23.
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... lived Torre , the print - seller ; he was the principal and famous fire - worker at Mary - le - bone Gardens . In St. Alban's Street , on the site of which the lower and western side of Waterloo Place now stands , stood the mansion of ...
... lived Torre , the print - seller ; he was the principal and famous fire - worker at Mary - le - bone Gardens . In St. Alban's Street , on the site of which the lower and western side of Waterloo Place now stands , stood the mansion of ...
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Página 42 - Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Página 105 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Página 202 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Página 6 - There when they came whereas those bricky towers The which on 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...
Página 191 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you: I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms : this I have seen since I saw you.
Página 161 - ... approach to me, somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost, 'Look, my lord, it comes.
Página 178 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud, though yet gentle noise came from the heavens, (for it was like nothing on earth,) which did so comfort and cheer me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
Página 92 - Little Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation. And the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.
Página 178 - If it be for thy glory, I beseech thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it...
Página 208 - President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London, for improving Natural Knowledge.