London, Or Interesting Memorials of Its Rise, Progress & Present State, Volume 2T. Boys, 1824 - London (England) |
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Page 73
... original design , by order of the Duke of York , who wished to have them ready for the popish service . This so encumbered the building and broke in upon the beauty of the design , that Wren , with tears , beg- ged they might not be ...
... original design , by order of the Duke of York , who wished to have them ready for the popish service . This so encumbered the building and broke in upon the beauty of the design , that Wren , with tears , beg- ged they might not be ...
Page 74
... the sweetly proportioned and embellished archi- trave cornice of original lightness and application completes the charm . On a second look , the columns slide into complete order , like a band of young 74 PERCY HISTORIES .
... the sweetly proportioned and embellished archi- trave cornice of original lightness and application completes the charm . On a second look , the columns slide into complete order , like a band of young 74 PERCY HISTORIES .
Page 79
... original act preserved at the Parliament Office . In a Register Book of the Bishops of London , preserved in St. Paul's Cathedral , ( fol . 89 , ) the award is inserted im- mediately after the act of parliament ; and there is the ...
... original act preserved at the Parliament Office . In a Register Book of the Bishops of London , preserved in St. Paul's Cathedral , ( fol . 89 , ) the award is inserted im- mediately after the act of parliament ; and there is the ...
Page 88
... original institutions of the College require , it is true , that the admission shall be gratis ; but after so many more serious departures from these institutions , it would be idle to let them stand in the way of any change which would ...
... original institutions of the College require , it is true , that the admission shall be gratis ; but after so many more serious departures from these institutions , it would be idle to let them stand in the way of any change which would ...
Page 99
... original letters written during the time of this plague , by Mr. Mead to Sir Martin Stuteville , one of his friends , which give some curious particulars relating to this malady which have escaped the his- torians of the time . Mr. Mead ...
... original letters written during the time of this plague , by Mr. Mead to Sir Martin Stuteville , one of his friends , which give some curious particulars relating to this malady which have escaped the his- torians of the time . Mr. Mead ...
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Page 292 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches...
Page 160 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose : 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 39 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion : for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Page 247 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 41 - Europe, as not long before repaired by the late king) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing remaining entire but the inscription in the architrave, showing by whom it was built, which had not one letter of it defaced.
Page 141 - To where 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.
Page 60 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Page 292 - ... houses all in one flame ! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like...
Page 33 - It is the market of young lecturers, whom you may cheapen here at all rates and sizes. It is the general mint of all famous lies, which are here like the legends of popery, first coined and stamped in the church. All inventions are emptied here, and not few pockets. The best sign of a temple in it is, that it is the thieves...
Page 33 - without exceptions, but the principal inhabitants and ' possessors are stale knights and captains out of service ; ' men of long rapiers and breeches, which after all turn ' merchants here, and traffick for news.