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Pagina 9
... Hospital ( colloquially termed the " Blue - Coat School " ) - where , till but the other day , the “ young barbarians " might be seen at play behind their iron barriers , backed by the fine old whitely - gleaming , buttressed hall that ...
... Hospital ( colloquially termed the " Blue - Coat School " ) - where , till but the other day , the “ young barbarians " might be seen at play behind their iron barriers , backed by the fine old whitely - gleaming , buttressed hall that ...
Pagina 13
... Hospital and of the Charterhouse , — the orders of the " White " and " Black " Friars , of the Carmel- ites , and the stern Dominicans , have descended to baser and more worldly uses . Destroyed at the Reformation , its riches alienated ...
... Hospital and of the Charterhouse , — the orders of the " White " and " Black " Friars , of the Carmel- ites , and the stern Dominicans , have descended to baser and more worldly uses . Destroyed at the Reformation , its riches alienated ...
Pagina 29
... Hospital , which are so prominent an object from the Terrace , that a fair American visitor , while taking her tea there , is said to have once innocently inquired : " Are those the mansions of your aristocracy ? " Mr. Hare unkindly ...
... Hospital , which are so prominent an object from the Terrace , that a fair American visitor , while taking her tea there , is said to have once innocently inquired : " Are those the mansions of your aristocracy ? " Mr. Hare unkindly ...
Pagina 56
... hospital of the same name , it is yet difficult to find . Its diminutive and somewhat inadequate red - brick tower is but just visible above the row of houses that divide it from Smithfield , and the modest entrance to its precincts ...
... hospital of the same name , it is yet difficult to find . Its diminutive and somewhat inadequate red - brick tower is but just visible above the row of houses that divide it from Smithfield , and the modest entrance to its precincts ...
Pagina 58
... hospital , was the direct outcome of a religious vow . In the twelfth century , when the little Norman London of the day was the town of monasteries and church bells likened by Sir Walter Besant to the " Ile Sonnante " of Rabelais ; in ...
... hospital , was the direct outcome of a religious vow . In the twelfth century , when the little Norman London of the day was the town of monasteries and church bells likened by Sir Walter Besant to the " Ile Sonnante " of Rabelais ; in ...
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Pagina 367 - 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 99 - 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 71 - I have been young, and now am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Pagina 72 - At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum !
Pagina 251 - 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 192 - 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 141 - What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coevals with that Time which they measured, and to take their revelations of its flight immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain of light...
Pagina 99 - 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 100 - 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 141 - I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places ? — these are of my oldest recollections.