London, by David Hughson, المجلد 51808 |
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... purchased as above , for 10731. by colonel Scott , who , besides , converting the chapel into a dancing room , de- molished the great hall , and , in other respects , reduced the venerable pile to a ruinous condition . Archbishop Juxon ...
... purchased as above , for 10731. by colonel Scott , who , besides , converting the chapel into a dancing room , de- molished the great hall , and , in other respects , reduced the venerable pile to a ruinous condition . Archbishop Juxon ...
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... purchased this estate of the duke of St. Alban's , there was only a farm - house upon it , which he new - fronted ; building , at the same time , some additional apartments , His lordship afterwards took the whole down , and erected the ...
... purchased this estate of the duke of St. Alban's , there was only a farm - house upon it , which he new - fronted ; building , at the same time , some additional apartments , His lordship afterwards took the whole down , and erected the ...
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... purchased them * On the 4th of April , 1581 , queen Elizabeth visited captain Drake's ship , called The Golden Hind . Her majesty dined on board ; and after dinner , conferred the honour of knighthood on the captain . " A prodigious ...
... purchased them * On the 4th of April , 1581 , queen Elizabeth visited captain Drake's ship , called The Golden Hind . Her majesty dined on board ; and after dinner , conferred the honour of knighthood on the captain . " A prodigious ...
الصفحة 83
... purchased large quantities of corn , which they distri buted at half the market price . Every Sabbath about thirty persons from distant parts were regaled around their hospitable board . " Two or three years after his marriage , he took ...
... purchased large quantities of corn , which they distri buted at half the market price . Every Sabbath about thirty persons from distant parts were regaled around their hospitable board . " Two or three years after his marriage , he took ...
الصفحة 84
... purchased . Of this rectory he made a tender to Dr. Conyers , which he accepted , to the unutterable distress of his people at Helmsley . " The doctor continued rector of this parish till his decease , highly re- spected in his life ...
... purchased . Of this rectory he made a tender to Dr. Conyers , which he accepted , to the unutterable distress of his people at Helmsley . " The doctor continued rector of this parish till his decease , highly re- spected in his life ...
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الصفحة 430 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
الصفحة 371 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows. There let the feasted eye unwearied stray; Luxurious, there, rove through the pendent woods That nodding hang o'er Harrington's retreat...
الصفحة 430 - Shrewsbury and love; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
الصفحة 3 - With which she calculates, computes and scans All distance, motion, magnitude, and now Measures an atom, and now girds a world? In London ; where has commerce such a mart, So rich, so throng'd, so drain'd, and so supplied, As London— opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London?
الصفحة 411 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
الصفحة 11 - madam I may not call you, mistress I am ashamed to call you, and so I know not what to call you ; but, howsoever, I thank you.
الصفحة 203 - RICHARD WATTS, Esq. by his Will, dated 22 Aug. 1579, founded this Charity for Six poor Travellers, who not being ROGUES, or PROCTORS, May receive gratis for one Night, Lodging, Entertainment, and Fourpence each.
الصفحة 345 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described, with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
الصفحة 373 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
الصفحة 460 - Lord, I am a great deal older than your Grace, " and have, I believe, heard more arguments for " Atheism than ever your Grace did ; but I have " lived long enough to see there is nothing in them ; " and so, I hope, your Grace will.