London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1Richard Bentley, 1850 |
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Pagina 47
... feet of Christ ; but , with this exception , and some tolerable oak carving on the altar - piece , be- neath the picture , St. Michael's contains but little to render it worthy of a visit . St. Michael's Royal derives its second name ...
... feet of Christ ; but , with this exception , and some tolerable oak carving on the altar - piece , be- neath the picture , St. Michael's contains but little to render it worthy of a visit . St. Michael's Royal derives its second name ...
Pagina 56
... feet , hands , and head of silver , holding a silver sword in his hand ; and as soon as he shall see the Mayor , Sheriffs , and Aldermen come on foot out of the church , carrying such a banner , he is to alight from his horse , and ...
... feet , hands , and head of silver , holding a silver sword in his hand ; and as soon as he shall see the Mayor , Sheriffs , and Aldermen come on foot out of the church , carrying such a banner , he is to alight from his horse , and ...
Pagina 62
... feet of hard stone to make the vault and wharf thereof , or else forty marks in ready money to buy the same stone withal . " The Earl figured in all the Court pageants of the time . He was selected to wait on King Philip on his landing ...
... feet of hard stone to make the vault and wharf thereof , or else forty marks in ready money to buy the same stone withal . " The Earl figured in all the Court pageants of the time . He was selected to wait on King Philip on his landing ...
Pagina 69
... feet , implored him , in language equally dignified and touching , to re- member that she was the wife of his choice , —a friendless stranger in a foreign land . " Sir , " she exclaimed with pathetic eloquence , " I beseech you for all ...
... feet , implored him , in language equally dignified and touching , to re- member that she was the wife of his choice , —a friendless stranger in a foreign land . " Sir , " she exclaimed with pathetic eloquence , " I beseech you for all ...
Pagina 73
... feet long and twelve feet broad ; the other in the garden behind the house , twelve feet long , and eight feet broad . In the former pit were laid forty - four corpses , whereof the bodies of Father Drury and Father Redyate were two ...
... feet long and twelve feet broad ; the other in the garden behind the house , twelve feet long , and eight feet broad . In the former pit were laid forty - four corpses , whereof the bodies of Father Drury and Father Redyate were two ...
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London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volume 1 John Heneage Jesse Volledige weergave - 1850 |
London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volume 1 John Heneage Jesse Volledige weergave - 1850 |
London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volume 1 John Heneage Jesse Volledige weergave - 1850 |
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Pagina 345 - For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Pagina 131 - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the water-side to another.
Pagina 389 - Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous dames , and statesmen old In bearded majesty , appear.
Pagina 128 - Church, to which the scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
Pagina 135 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little alehouse on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow, and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Pagina 320 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street" — , " lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Pagina 132 - So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of York what I saw ; and that, unless his Majesty did command houses to be pulled down, nothing could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way.
Pagina 138 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Pagina 130 - Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.
Pagina 245 - Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall.