Environs of London: Western DivisionWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1842 - 356 páginas |
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... lived St. John ; there Fox and Canning died , and beneath that stone repose the mortal remains of Hogarth . " We want a companion who shall be to us as a catalogue in a gallery of pictures - less a companion than an indicator ; we can ...
... lived St. John ; there Fox and Canning died , and beneath that stone repose the mortal remains of Hogarth . " We want a companion who shall be to us as a catalogue in a gallery of pictures - less a companion than an indicator ; we can ...
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... lived happy in the converse of ingenious men , and in the society of his family : Holbein was patronised by him , residing in his house for three years , where he executed many of his works . Erasmus visited Sir Thomas here , and a ...
... lived happy in the converse of ingenious men , and in the society of his family : Holbein was patronised by him , residing in his house for three years , where he executed many of his works . Erasmus visited Sir Thomas here , and a ...
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... the vicissitudes of fortune . Having been the wife of one of the greatest men of that age , she lived to see her husband lose his head upon the scaffold ; to see. 18 THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON . Brompton 74 SIR T MORE'S MONUMENT.
... the vicissitudes of fortune . Having been the wife of one of the greatest men of that age , she lived to see her husband lose his head upon the scaffold ; to see. 18 THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON . Brompton 74 SIR T MORE'S MONUMENT.
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... lived to be very bold afore women , much more wolde I be lothe to come into the hands of any lyving man , be he physician or surgeon . " Cheyne Walk is the promenade of Chelsea , and a delightful promenade it is ; remaining somewhat in ...
... lived to be very bold afore women , much more wolde I be lothe to come into the hands of any lyving man , be he physician or surgeon . " Cheyne Walk is the promenade of Chelsea , and a delightful promenade it is ; remaining somewhat in ...
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... lived on terms of intimacy ; Philip Miller , the botanist , and others , are interred here . In a cemetery , adjoining the King's Road , given to the parish by Sir Hans Sloane , was buried Mr. Andrew Millar , the eminent bookseller ...
... lived on terms of intimacy ; Philip Miller , the botanist , and others , are interred here . In a cemetery , adjoining the King's Road , given to the parish by Sir Hans Sloane , was buried Mr. Andrew Millar , the eminent bookseller ...
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Página 262 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the sweetbriar or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine...
Página 295 - That every man, with him, was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Página 261 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Página 229 - I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there. For I remember when I began to read, and...
Página 5 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres. and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
Página 295 - Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Página 261 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Página 270 - My eye descending from the Hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays: Thames! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity...
Página 5 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 145 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand: To him the church, the realm, their pow'rs consign, Thro...