London and Its Environs: A Practical Guide to the Metropolis and Its Vicinity, Illustrated by Maps, Plans and ViewsA. & C. Black, 1862 - 391 pàgines |
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Pàgina 34
... long , is supported for nearly its whole length on brick arches . At the terminus , Brunswick Wharf , steamers to ... feet high , the supporting columns being 44 feet in height . The hall , 125 feet by 611 feet , and 60 feet high ...
... long , is supported for nearly its whole length on brick arches . At the terminus , Brunswick Wharf , steamers to ... feet high , the supporting columns being 44 feet in height . The hall , 125 feet by 611 feet , and 60 feet high ...
Pàgina 36
... feet high . In connection with the station is a large and well managed hotel ... in length , Brighton has been made a suburb of London . It has many branch ... long , cut through London clay . This tunnel is ventilated by seven shafts ...
... feet high . In connection with the station is a large and well managed hotel ... in length , Brighton has been made a suburb of London . It has many branch ... long , cut through London clay . This tunnel is ventilated by seven shafts ...
Pàgina 37
... in length , it is purposed to continue the line from Smithfield to Finsbury Pavement , within 400 yards of the Bank . The princi- pal stations will be covered with roofs of ... feet long , 32 feet broad , and it is RAILWAY STATIONS . 37.
... in length , it is purposed to continue the line from Smithfield to Finsbury Pavement , within 400 yards of the Bank . The princi- pal stations will be covered with roofs of ... feet long , 32 feet broad , and it is RAILWAY STATIONS . 37.
Pàgina 38
... feet long , 32 feet broad , and it is supported by two stone abut- ments at each end , and by three piers in the river , carrying four arched spans of 175 feet each . A large and very handsome hotel , to be called the Grosvenor Hotel ...
... feet long , 32 feet broad , and it is supported by two stone abut- ments at each end , and by three piers in the river , carrying four arched spans of 175 feet each . A large and very handsome hotel , to be called the Grosvenor Hotel ...
Pàgina 45
... feet long , 25 feet wide , and 30 feet high . The walls are covered with coloured paper , and they will afford about 72,000 square feet of hanging space , one half of which will be retained for our own pictures , the other half handed ...
... feet long , 25 feet wide , and 30 feet high . The walls are covered with coloured paper , and they will afford about 72,000 square feet of hanging space , one half of which will be retained for our own pictures , the other half handed ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 198 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Pàgina 306 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Pàgina 96 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of* some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Pàgina 96 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Pàgina 96 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Pàgina 100 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
Pàgina 258 - In emblematic figures, show The merits of their trade. That clients may infer from thence How just is their profession, The Lamb sets forth their Innocence, The Horse their Expedition. 0 happy Britons ! happy isle ! Let foreign nations say, Where you get justice without guile, And law without delay.
Pàgina 261 - Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, There whylome wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride...
Pàgina 109 - Shorthand he wrote, his flower 'in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made.
Pàgina 261 - I have been many a time in the chambers in the Temple which were his, and passed up the staircase, which Johnson, and Burke, and Reynolds trod to see their friend, their poet, their kind Goldsmith, — the stair on which the poor women sat weeping bitterly when they heard that the greatest and most generous of all men was dead within the black oak door.