The ancient remains, antiquities, and recent improvements of the city of London, Volume 2 |
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... ornamented with pilasters , cornices , and a broad pediment ; the upper part of the walls , at their junction with the roof , round the church , is enriched with cherubims , festoons , and cartouches . At the west end of the inte- rior ...
... ornamented with pilasters , cornices , and a broad pediment ; the upper part of the walls , at their junction with the roof , round the church , is enriched with cherubims , festoons , and cartouches . At the west end of the inte- rior ...
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... ornamented with palm branches , fruit leaves , & c . The communion - table stands over an arabathrum of black and white marble , inclosed by a rail and balusters . • The length of the church is seventy - eight feet , breadth thirty ...
... ornamented with palm branches , fruit leaves , & c . The communion - table stands over an arabathrum of black and white marble , inclosed by a rail and balusters . • The length of the church is seventy - eight feet , breadth thirty ...
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... ornamented with Corinthian columns , which support an angular pediment . The tower has large windows in the uppermost stage , and terminates a little above by a plain cornice , upon which is raised a small dome , that supports a slender ...
... ornamented with Corinthian columns , which support an angular pediment . The tower has large windows in the uppermost stage , and terminates a little above by a plain cornice , upon which is raised a small dome , that supports a slender ...
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... ornamented . The font is beautifully designed , the basin being carved to represent the Garden of Eden , and the Fall of Man ; the salvation of Noah and his family in the Ark ; the baptism of Jesus , by John the Baptist ; and Philip ...
... ornamented . The font is beautifully designed , the basin being carved to represent the Garden of Eden , and the Fall of Man ; the salvation of Noah and his family in the Ark ; the baptism of Jesus , by John the Baptist ; and Philip ...
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... ornamented with pedestals , with columns and entablature of the Composite order ; so that here are the five orders placed in the same way and order in which they are ordinarily expressed . On the cornice of this last order , stands ...
... ornamented with pedestals , with columns and entablature of the Composite order ; so that here are the five orders placed in the same way and order in which they are ordinarily expressed . On the cornice of this last order , stands ...
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Page 269 - In walking along the street, in my youth, on the side next to this prison, I have often been tempted by the question, ' Sir, will you be pleased to walk in and be married ?' Along this most lawless space was hung up the frequent sign of a male and female hand conjoined, with ' Marriages performed within,
Page 289 - And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 75 - the queen's majesty, attended with her nobility, came from her house at the Strand, called Somerset House, and entered the city by Temple Bar, through Fleet Street, Cheap, and so by the north side of the Bourse to Sir Thomas Gresham's in Bishopsgate Street, where she dined.
Page 4 - Proud Prelate, — You know what you were before I made you what you are ; if you do not immediately comply with my request, by God I will unfrock you. — ELIZABETH.
Page 274 - 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. " Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well.
Page 402 - London:" and, secondly, by Queen Elizabeth, who changed their first appellation to that of " the Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of Freemen of the Art and Mystery of Cloth-workers of the City of London ;" whose title was confirmed by Charles I.
Page 211 - I beseech you for all the loves that hath been between us, and for the love of God, let me have justice and right, take of me some pity and compassion, for I am a poor woman and a stranger born out of your dominion, I have here no assured friend, and much less indifferent counsel ; I flee to you as to the head of justice within this realm.
Page 234 - He probably did not remain long in slavery ; for at the beginning of the civil war he was made a captain in the royal army, and in 1644 attended the queen to France, where he remained till the Restoration. At last, upon suspicion of his being privy to the popish plot, he was taken up in 1682, and confined in the Gatehouse, Westminster ; where he ended his life, in the sixty-third year of his age.
Page 340 - In this case, how would he be surprised to hear all the languages of Europe spoken in this little spot of his former dominions, and to see so many private men, who in his time would have been the vassals of some powerful baron, negotiating like princes for greater sums of money than were formerly to be met with in the royal treasury ! Trade, without enlarging the British territories, has given us a kind of additional empire.
Page 288 - Benchers of the two societies, their heirs and assigns for ever, for the lodging, reception, and education of the professors and students of the laws of England...