London, Volumes 1-2Charles Knight C. Knight & Company, 1841 - London (England) |
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... beautiful illu- minated History of the Old Testament , ' & c . , of the fourteenth century , in the Bri- tish Museum . Howel says , " There was in former times a sport used upon the Thames , which is now discontinued : it was for two ...
... beautiful illu- minated History of the Old Testament , ' & c . , of the fourteenth century , in the Bri- tish Museum . Howel says , " There was in former times a sport used upon the Thames , which is now discontinued : it was for two ...
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... beautiful spouse Queen Jane , rode through- out the city of London to Greenwich . " The interesting volume of the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII . ' contains item upon item of sums paid to water- men for waiting with barge and boat ...
... beautiful spouse Queen Jane , rode through- out the city of London to Greenwich . " The interesting volume of the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII . ' contains item upon item of sums paid to water- men for waiting with barge and boat ...
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... beautiful has been borne , amidst song and merriment , from house to house , to join the masque and the dance ; and many a wily statesman , muffled in his cloak , has glided along unseen in his boat to some dark conference with his ...
... beautiful has been borne , amidst song and merriment , from house to house , to join the masque and the dance ; and many a wily statesman , muffled in his cloak , has glided along unseen in his boat to some dark conference with his ...
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... beautiful and the mean , but in another form . The dirty Whitefriars is the neighbour of the trim Temple . Praised be the venerable Law which has left us one green spot , where trees still grow by our river - side , and which still ...
... beautiful and the mean , but in another form . The dirty Whitefriars is the neighbour of the trim Temple . Praised be the venerable Law which has left us one green spot , where trees still grow by our river - side , and which still ...
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... beautiful , con- summately sensual and worldly , as utterly divested of the poetry of beauty as a handsome woman can well be . We make that qualification , for it is difficult to look unmoved on that winning countenance , so " fair and ...
... beautiful , con- summately sensual and worldly , as utterly divested of the poetry of beauty as a handsome woman can well be . We make that qualification , for it is difficult to look unmoved on that winning countenance , so " fair and ...
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Page 247 - 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 392 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 99 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 103 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 78 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 269 - ... all the day long. 13 As for me, I was like a deaf man, and heard not : and as one that is dumb, who doth not open his mouth. 14 I became even as a man that heareth not : and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Page 138 - From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did I wonder at the...
Page 103 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 223 - Now mark me how I will undo myself: I give this heavy weight from off my head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of kingly sway from out my heart; With mine own tears I wash away my balm, With mine own hands I give away my crown, With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, With mine own breath release all duteous oaths; All pomp and majesty I do forswear; My manors, rents, revenues, I forgo; My acts, decrees, and statutes, I deny.
Page 64 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.