Handbook to the Environs of London: Alphabetically Arranged, Containing an Account of Every Town and Village, and of All Places of Interest, Within a Circle of Twenty Miles Round London, الجزء 2

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J. Murray, 1876 - 794 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 523 - And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
الصفحة 574 - Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave lord keeper led the brawls, The seal and maces danced before him.
الصفحة 636 - It is finished with shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter, and are reflected over the place.
الصفحة 7 - CAMPBELL'S (LORD) Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England. From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lord Eldon in 183S.
الصفحة 733 - Not thus the land appeard in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they...
الصفحة 23 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years
الصفحة 555 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe, through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London town ! LXXXIII.
الصفحة 661 - Chester presents Walton with a bridle. To curb women's tongues that talk so idle.
الصفحة 635 - The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead up to his mother's tomb, are managed with exquisite judgment; and though Lord Peterborough assisted him " To form his quincunx, and to rank his vines," those were not the most pleasing ingredients of his little perspective.
الصفحة 713 - So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? where I in lust and joy, With a King's son, my childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy. Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour, The large green courts, where we were wont to hove ', With eyes cast up into the maiden's tower, And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love.

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