Southwark and Its StorySimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1881 - 236 pàgines |
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... taken their present shape . I have called my book a story instead of using the more ambitious title of history , as I have only aimed at reproducing the more picturesque incidents in the life of our Borough , avoiding statistics of its ...
... taken their present shape . I have called my book a story instead of using the more ambitious title of history , as I have only aimed at reproducing the more picturesque incidents in the life of our Borough , avoiding statistics of its ...
Pàgina 11
... taken , and Edmund forced Canute to raise the siege . It was on St. George's Day , April 23rd , 1016 , that Canute marched on London , but in November of the same year , Edmund died , and Canute remained master of the whole of England ...
... taken , and Edmund forced Canute to raise the siege . It was on St. George's Day , April 23rd , 1016 , that Canute marched on London , but in November of the same year , Edmund died , and Canute remained master of the whole of England ...
Pàgina 12
... taken from its tomb , and " the illustrious King , and the Archbishop , ( his successor , ) with his Suffragan Bishops , carried in a ship his holy body over the Thames to Southwark , Canute himself taking the helm * and delivered the ...
... taken from its tomb , and " the illustrious King , and the Archbishop , ( his successor , ) with his Suffragan Bishops , carried in a ship his holy body over the Thames to Southwark , Canute himself taking the helm * and delivered the ...
Pàgina 17
... taken his name . It is at any rate singularly appropriate . We find that the expenses of the new bridge , which in some way is connected with this Norman Knight William , were met by an assessment upon all lands in the County of Surrey ...
... taken his name . It is at any rate singularly appropriate . We find that the expenses of the new bridge , which in some way is connected with this Norman Knight William , were met by an assessment upon all lands in the County of Surrey ...
Pàgina 43
... taken in stately procession , and with all due honour , through our Boro ' and restored to her French home ; and Sir Henry Percy protested on yielding her up to the French Am- bassador , that she was restored in all honour as she had ...
... taken in stately procession , and with all due honour , through our Boro ' and restored to her French home ; and Sir Henry Percy protested on yielding her up to the French Am- bassador , that she was restored in all honour as she had ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 141 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Pàgina 50 - ... it, is of a jacket, or sleeveless coat, whole before, open on both sides, with a square collar, winged at the shoulders ; a stately garment of old time, commonly worn of noblemen and others, both at home and abroad in the wars, but then (to wit in the wars) their arms embroidered, or otherwise depict upon them, that every man by his coat of arms might be known from others : but now these tabards are only worn by the heralds, and be called their coats of arms in service...
Pàgina 211 - I WAS glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
Pàgina 190 - that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own ; ' and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now at quiet.
Pàgina 188 - I felt almost the last flutter of his pulse, and looked for the last time upon the face that for fifteen years had never been turned upon me but with respect or benignity.
Pàgina 163 - ... last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand still, and let the flames burn on, which they did, for near two miles in length and one in breadth.
Pàgina 142 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
Pàgina 164 - So near the fire as we could for smoke; and all over the Thames, with one's faces in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire-drops.
Pàgina 132 - Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Pàgina 141 - But now the whole Round Table is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world, And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.