Black's Guide to London and Its EnvironsA. & C. Black, 1863 - 379 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... in cir- cumference . On the wall , which was 22 feet in height , there stood 15 towers 40 feet high . It is conjectured that the prætorium and its adjuncts were on the site of the Poultry and Cornhill , and LONDON STONE , now in Cannon ...
... in cir- cumference . On the wall , which was 22 feet in height , there stood 15 towers 40 feet high . It is conjectured that the prætorium and its adjuncts were on the site of the Poultry and Cornhill , and LONDON STONE , now in Cannon ...
Pàgina 23
... feet above Trinity high - water mark . As far as the Temple Gardens it is proposed to make the road 100 feet in width , and solid throughout . From this point eastward , it would be reduced to piers of masonry , the width of 70 feet ...
... feet above Trinity high - water mark . As far as the Temple Gardens it is proposed to make the road 100 feet in width , and solid throughout . From this point eastward , it would be reduced to piers of masonry , the width of 70 feet ...
Pàgina 26
... feet , and a depth of 4 , with a fall of 3 inches in the mile , sending a supply of water into London at the rate of ... high services being derived from another reservoir close by in Claremont Square , 30 feet higher , into which the ...
... feet , and a depth of 4 , with a fall of 3 inches in the mile , sending a supply of water into London at the rate of ... high services being derived from another reservoir close by in Claremont Square , 30 feet higher , into which the ...
Pàgina 28
... high water , so that the ebb tide may remove it . On the south side of the river the sewerage will be similarly ... feet in height inter- nally , and 12 feet wide . There are to be reservoirs at the out- lets , and at certain points ...
... high water , so that the ebb tide may remove it . On the south side of the river the sewerage will be similarly ... feet in height inter- nally , and 12 feet wide . There are to be reservoirs at the out- lets , and at certain points ...
Pàgina 44
... feet high , the supporting columns being 44 feet in height . The hall , 125 feet by 61 feet , and 60 feet high , contains a colossal marble statue by Baily , of George Stephenson , the engineer , erected by subscrip- tion . The bas ...
... feet high , the supporting columns being 44 feet in height . The hall , 125 feet by 61 feet , and 60 feet high , contains a colossal marble statue by Baily , of George Stephenson , the engineer , erected by subscrip- tion . The bas ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Abbey acres amongst ancient annual arches armour Bank Bishop bronze building built bust chambers chapel Charing Cross Charles Charles II Cheapside Chelsea church Club collection contains cost Court crown Crystal Palace designs Duke Earl east edifice Edward entrance erected Fares feet high feet long feet wide Fleet Street front gallery garden gate George George III guineas hall Henry VIII Hill Holborn hospital House Hungerford Bridge Inigo Jones James John King King William Street King's Lane London Bridge Lord Mayor mansion marble ment metropolis miles monument Museum north side Office Oxford Street painted palace Pall Mall Parliament Paul's persons Piccadilly portrait present Prince Queen Railway Regent Street residence river Road Royal sculptures seen Society south side specimens Square staircase stands station statue stone style Temple Thames theatre tomb Tower Trafalgar Square transept Victoria walls Westminster William Wren
Passatges populars
Pàgina 196 - 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 94 - 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 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 94 - 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 107 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Pàgina 98 - 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 94 - 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 tombstone, 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 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.