Highways and Byways in LondonMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1903 - 480 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... modern ones ; for the Anglo - Saxon race has always been very conservative in rebuilding its new streets , regardless of symmetry or direct- ness , on the lines of the destroyed ones . At any rate , we know that the original church of ...
... modern ones ; for the Anglo - Saxon race has always been very conservative in rebuilding its new streets , regardless of symmetry or direct- ness , on the lines of the destroyed ones . At any rate , we know that the original church of ...
Pagina 5
... modern traffic more or less to the old lines . A few new streets have recently been made from north to south , but still the main traffic goes from east to west , owing to the paucity of intersecting thoroughfares . The city of London ...
... modern traffic more or less to the old lines . A few new streets have recently been made from north to south , but still the main traffic goes from east to west , owing to the paucity of intersecting thoroughfares . The city of London ...
Pagina 9
... modern school- boys have reason to know , been devoted to educational and other charitable aims . It was , indeed , eminently suitable that in the classic precincts of the ruined monastery of the " Grey Friars " should arise a great ...
... modern school- boys have reason to know , been devoted to educational and other charitable aims . It was , indeed , eminently suitable that in the classic precincts of the ruined monastery of the " Grey Friars " should arise a great ...
Pagina 10
... modern London , as a French writer lately remarked , " no street without a church and a tree " ; this is especially true of the City , where , even in crowded Cheapside , the big plane - tree of Wood Street still towers over its ...
... modern London , as a French writer lately remarked , " no street without a church and a tree " ; this is especially true of the City , where , even in crowded Cheapside , the big plane - tree of Wood Street still towers over its ...
Pagina 20
... - lines , and the greater part of the hideous modern growth of suburbs . Another whirl of the machine , and every sign of a railway station would disappear , every repulsive engine shed and siding I THE " TIME MACHINE " • 21 vanish .
... - lines , and the greater part of the hideous modern growth of suburbs . Another whirl of the machine , and every sign of a railway station would disappear , every repulsive engine shed and siding I THE " TIME MACHINE " • 21 vanish .
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Abbey adorned ancient arch architecture artistic Battersea Park beautiful blackened Bloomsbury brick Bridge building built byways called century CHAP chapel charming Charterhouse Charterhouse Square Chelsea church Cleopatra's Needle Court crowded curious Dickens Dickens's early Embankment eyes famous fashion Fleet Street flowers garden gate glory green Hall haunt Henry Hertford House Holborn hospital houses human James's Kensington Kensington Gardens lady Lane less lived London London Bridge London stones look Lord mansions mediæval modern monument Museum National Gallery neighbouring old days once painted palace Paul's perhaps picturesque poor Queen quiet red-brick Regent's Park river Road Roman Rossetti round says seems seen shops side Smithfield Somerset House Square stands Staple Inn stone story strange Tate Gallery Temple Thackeray Thames things tomb Tower Tower Bridge Toynbee Hall trees vast visitor walk walls Waterloo Bridge Westminster wonderful Wren
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Pagina 365 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Pagina 97 - Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning.
Pagina 173 - said he ; " for I of late have been Much cheer'd with thoughts of Christ, the living bread." O human soul ! as long as thou canst so Set up a mark of everlasting light, Above the howling senses...
Pagina 247 - When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat "like a Guinea?" O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
Pagina 190 - Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound.. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Pagina 97 - There be of them, that have left a name behind them, That their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no memorial; Who are perished, as though they had never been ; And are become as though they had never been born; And their children after them.
Pagina 362 - He received me very courteously; but, it must be confessed, that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers.
Pagina 98 - Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and St Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted...
Pagina 203 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Pagina 69 - I have been young, and now am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.