Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851Charles Knight |
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... entrance is at the corner of an open grassy space , known as Bonner's Field , and where till recently stood an old house , which was once the residence of the heretic - burning bishop . Close by where the bishop doubtless laboured in ...
... entrance is at the corner of an open grassy space , known as Bonner's Field , and where till recently stood an old house , which was once the residence of the heretic - burning bishop . Close by where the bishop doubtless laboured in ...
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... entrance . Paths , kept in nice order , intersect it in various directions . Having crossed the road by Apsley House , the mansion of the Duke of Wellington , the park is entered by one of the triple archways . The bronze statue of ...
... entrance . Paths , kept in nice order , intersect it in various directions . Having crossed the road by Apsley House , the mansion of the Duke of Wellington , the park is entered by one of the triple archways . The bronze statue of ...
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... entrances to the Gardens . Passing through an open screen , and along a wide gravel walk , bordered on one side by ... entrance and exit . On what is called a good average day , as many as eight thousand persons visit the gardens ; but ...
... entrances to the Gardens . Passing through an open screen , and along a wide gravel walk , bordered on one side by ... entrance and exit . On what is called a good average day , as many as eight thousand persons visit the gardens ; but ...
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... entrances to the gardens . Botanic Gardens and Zoological Gardens . The plan which follows , of the Regent's Park ... entrance fee is One Shilling , except on Mondays , when the charge is Sixpence . On Sundays they are only open to ...
... entrances to the gardens . Botanic Gardens and Zoological Gardens . The plan which follows , of the Regent's Park ... entrance fee is One Shilling , except on Mondays , when the charge is Sixpence . On Sundays they are only open to ...
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... entrance is on Kew Green . The adjoining Pleasure grounds , or park , are only opened from Midsummer to Michaelmas , on Sundays and Thursdays . The entrances to these grounds are on the road from Kew to Richmond . There is a branch to ...
... entrance is on Kew Green . The adjoining Pleasure grounds , or park , are only opened from Midsummer to Michaelmas , on Sundays and Thursdays . The entrances to these grounds are on the road from Kew to Richmond . There is a branch to ...
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Page 177 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 199 - 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 203 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Page 203 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 271 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 204 - Dr. Busby ! a great man ! he whipped my grandfather ; a very great man ! I should have gone to him myself, if I had not been a blockhead : a very great man !' " We were immediately conducted into the little chapel on the right hand.
Page 610 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth. We repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.
Page 200 - Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription.
Page 9 - Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between and Mrs. Nelly, f as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene.
Page 130 - ... air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and...