Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire, Volume 3 |
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Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire: Novel William Harrison Ainsworth No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 303 - The blood of the just shall be wanting in London, Burnt by fire of three-and-twenty, the Six ; The ancient Dame shall fall from her high place, Of the same sect many shall be killed.
Page 21 - around him, harmonized with his own gloomy thoughts. Pursuing his walk along the side of the river, he was checked by a horrible smell, and looking downward, he perceived a carcase in the last stage of decomposition lying in the mud. It had been washed ashore by the tide, and a large bird of prey was contending for
Page 22 - possession of it with a legion of water-rats. Sickened by the sight, he turned up a narrow thoroughfare near Baynard's Castle, and crossing Thames Street, was about to ascend Addle Hill, when he perceived a man wheeling a hand-barrow, containing a couple
Page 303 - sang du juste a Londres fera faute, Bruslez par feu, le vingt et trois, les Six ; La Dame antique cherra de place haute, De meme secte plusieurs seront occis.*
Page 21 - of the busy hum ordinarily attending the discharge of freight from a vessel, or the packing of goods and stores on board. All traffic was at an end ; and this scene, usually one of the liveliest possible, was now forlorn and desolate. On the opposite shore of the river it appeared to be the
Page 4 - with which the close alleys and other out-ofthe-way places were crowded, and which were so far decomposed as not to be capable of removal. The aspect of the river was as much changed as that of the city. Numbers of bodies were thrown into it, and floating up with the tides, were
Page 5 - to taint the air on its banks, while strange illomened fowl, attracted thither by their instinct, preyed upon them. Below the bridge, all captains of ships moored in the Pool or off Wapping, held as little communication as possible with those on shore, and
Page 6 - continued to be used as a pest-house, but it was not so crowded as heretofore, because as not one in fifty of the