London and Its Environs ...1889 - 405 pages |
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adjoining Bank Battersea Bethnal Green Blackfriars Blackfriars Bridge Bond Street bronze building bust Camden town cent centre Chapel Charing Cross Charles Cheapside Chelsea church City Club collection comp contains corner Court Cuyp Duke Dyck Earl Edward England English entrance erected exhibited figures Fleet Street Gallery Gardens Gate George Hackney Hall handsome Henry VIII Hill Holborn Hospital Hotel House Pl Hyde Park inscription Islington James James's John Kensington King King's Lady Lambeth Landscape Lane London Bridge Lord Ludgate Hill Madonna and Child marble Mary monument Museum occupied Office opposite Oxford Street painted painter Palace Pall Mall Paul's Piccadilly picture Portrait Prince Queen Victoria Railway recumbent Regent Street Rembrandt road Roman Room Royal Rubens sarcophagus School sculptures side South Square staircase Station statue Strand Temple Thames THEATRE Titian Tower town transept upper wall Waterloo West Westminster Abbey Whitehall William
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Page 336 - 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...
Page 118 - House" shall mean the master, wardens and assistants of the guild, fraternity, or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond, in the county of Kent...
Page 210 - 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 I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 132 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 117 - 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...
Page 201 - The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems by the cunning labor of the chisel to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.
Page 66 - Companies, wealthier and more influential than the rest, are the Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths, Skinners, Merchant Taylors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers.
Page 196 - 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.
Page 189 - We step cautiously and softly about, as if fearful of disturbing the hallowed silence of the tomb; while every footfall whispers along the walls, and chatters among the sepulchres, making us more sensible of the quiet we have interrupted. It seems as if the awful nature of the place presses down upon the soul, and hushes the beholder into noiseless reverence.
Page 170 - EM Ward. James II. receiving the news of the landing of William of Orange in the palace of Whitehall, 1688. 425. JR Herbert. Sir Thomas More with Margaret Roper watching the monks of the Charterhouse led to execution from his prison window. 620. Frederick R.