London and Its Environs: Handbook for TravellersK. Baedeker, 1887 - 340 pagina's |
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Pagina 133 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Pagina 326 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Pagina 282 - Two nights ago Ranelagh Gardens were opened at Chelsea ; the Prince, Princess, Duke, much nobility, and much mob besides, were there. There is a vast amphitheatre, finely gilt, painted, and illuminated, into which everybody that loves eating, drinking, staring, or crowding, is admitted for twelvepence.
Pagina 119 - Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and 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...
Pagina 91 - When ye have sought the city round, Yet still this is the highest ground.
Pagina 120 - Countess of Salisbury, beheaded 1541 ; Queen Catharine Howard, beheaded 1542 ; Lord Admiral Seymour of Sudeley, beheaded 1549 ; Lord Somerset, the Protector, beheaded 1552 ; John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland , beheaded 1553...
Pagina 211 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly 1 suppos'd the Holy Land : — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die, [Exeunt.
Pagina 69 - Companies, wealthier and more influential than the rest, are the Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths, Skinners, Merchant Taylors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers.
Pagina 214 - ... on the sides are the names of the crews of the ships Erebus and Terror. — On the right hand side of this statue is a bronze figure of Field-Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne (d. 1871), on a pedestal of light-coloured granite, by Boehm. The broad flight of steps at the S. end of Waterloo Place, known as Waterloo Steps, descends to St.
Pagina 197 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.