Great Cities of Europe: First [-second] series, Volumen 1Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913 |
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Página 49 - I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison * hanged, drawn, and quartered ; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.
Página 293 - ... a shapelier edifice than Nelson's Monument. Look a little farther, and there is Holyrood Palace, with its Gothic frontal and ruined abbey, and the red sentry pacing smartly to and fro before the door like a mechanical figure in a panorama. By way of an outpost, you can single out the little peak-roofed lodge, over which Rizzio's murderers made their escape and where Queen Mary herself, according to gossip, bathed in white wine to entertain her loveliness.
Página 274 - Do what you can, out of hand, and without long tarrying, to beat down and overthrow the castle, sack Holyrood house, and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye conveniently can ; sack Leith, and burn and subvert it, and all the rest, putting man, woman, and child to jire and sword, without exception...
Página 11 - I HAVE seen the greatest wonder which the world can show to the astonished spirit, I have seen it and am still astonished — and still there remains fixed in my memory the stone forest of houses, and amid them the rushing stream of faces of living men with all their motley passions, all their terrible impulses of love, of hunger and of hatred — I mean London.
Página 139 - Factories and fortifications were in no long time established from Balsora at the mouth of the Tigris, in the Persian gulf, along the coasts and islands of India as far as Japan. Alliances were formed with several...
Página 67 - ... difficult to carry the houses by storm, but they were soon set on fire. A large number of sutlers and other varlets had accompanied the Spaniards from the citadel, bringing torches and kindling materials for the express purpose of firing the town. With great dexterity these means were now applied, and in a brief interval the city-hall and other edifices on the square were in flames. The conflagration spread with rapidity, house after house, street after street, taking fire. Nearly a thousand...
Página 246 - The sun rose a little after ten, and I have never seen anything finer than the spectacle which we then saw for the first time, but which was afterwards almost daily repeated — the illumination of the forests and snow-fields in his level orange beams, for even at midday he was not more than eight degrees above the horizon. The tops of the trees, only, were touched : still and solid as iron, and covered with sparkling frost-crystals, their trunks were changed to blazing gold, and their foliage to...
Página 285 - Gothic entrance of the ancient prison, which, as is well known to all men, rears its ancient front in the very middle of the High Street, forming, as it were, the termination to a huge pile of buildings called the Luckenbooths, which, for some inconceivable reason, our ancestors had jammed into the midst of the principal street of the town, leaving for passage a narrow street on the north; and on the south, into which the prison opens, a narrow crooked lane, winding betwixt the high and sombre walls...
Página 68 - The Spaniards seemed to cast off even the vizard of humanity. Hell seemed emptied of its fiends. Night fell upon the scene before the soldiers were masters of the city; but worse horrors began after the contest was ended. This army of brigands had come thither with a definite, practical purpose, for it was not blood-thirst, nor lust, nor revenge, which had impelled them, but it was avarice, greediness for gold.
Página 274 - Consequently, in May, 1544, the Earl of Hertford landed at Leith, took Blackness Castle and demanded the unconditional surrender of the city. He had come to punish the Scots for their detestable falsehood, to declare and show the force of his highness's sword to all such as would resist him. On the receipt of a defiant answer, the English blew in Canongate, and for two days Edinburgh was pillaged and burned. The invaders, after unsuccessfully bombarding the Castle, seized the ships in Leith harbor,...