Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons of the Great Town, Volum 1R. Bentley, 1865 - 331 pàgines |
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... JAMES I. HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES • QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA DOING PENANCE AT TYBURN " OLD PARR " · · GEORGE AND BLUE BOAR INN . - THE INTERCEPTED LETTER LORD SANQUHAR'S REVENGE : A STORY OF WHITEFRIARS MARTYRDOM OF KING CHARLES I. THE ...
... JAMES I. HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES • QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA DOING PENANCE AT TYBURN " OLD PARR " · · GEORGE AND BLUE BOAR INN . - THE INTERCEPTED LETTER LORD SANQUHAR'S REVENGE : A STORY OF WHITEFRIARS MARTYRDOM OF KING CHARLES I. THE ...
Pàgina 11
... James II.'s liberty of conscience , and was seized with a sweating distemper , which , after his some weeks ' going about , proved his death at his very loving friend's , Mr. Strudwick's , a grocer at the sign of the Star- " at Holborn ...
... James II.'s liberty of conscience , and was seized with a sweating distemper , which , after his some weeks ' going about , proved his death at his very loving friend's , Mr. Strudwick's , a grocer at the sign of the Star- " at Holborn ...
Pàgina 39
... James IV . of Scotland , in the chronicler's description of the Church of St. Michael , Wood Street . " There is , " he says , " but without any outward monument , the head of James IV . , King of Scotts , of that name , slain at ...
... James IV . of Scotland , in the chronicler's description of the Church of St. Michael , Wood Street . " There is , " he says , " but without any outward monument , the head of James IV . , King of Scotts , of that name , slain at ...
Pàgina 40
... James IV . of Scotland ; but this has been disproved by Sir Walter Scott . 6 A Correspondent of the Athenæum , 1852 , writes : " The curious French Gazette records that the king was killed within a lance's length of the Earl of Sur- rey ...
... James IV . of Scotland ; but this has been disproved by Sir Walter Scott . 6 A Correspondent of the Athenæum , 1852 , writes : " The curious French Gazette records that the king was killed within a lance's length of the Earl of Sur- rey ...
Pàgina 41
... James I. ( the manuscript of which is preserved in the Bodleian Library ) , has left this curious account of Queen Elizabeth's popularity , as well as a portraiture of the Virgin Queen : Then we came where there " In the year 1588 , I ...
... James I. ( the manuscript of which is preserved in the Bodleian Library ) , has left this curious account of Queen Elizabeth's popularity , as well as a portraiture of the Virgin Queen : Then we came where there " In the year 1588 , I ...
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Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes, and Remarkable Persons ..., Volum 1 John Timbs Visualització completa - 1865 |
Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons ..., Volum 1 John Timbs Visualització completa - 1865 |
Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons ..., Volum 1 John Timbs Visualització completa - 1865 |
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Pàgina 85 - I rather think it was in his face. Much was the hurry and confusion; cloths and napkins were at hand to make all clean. His Majesty then got up and would dance with the Queen of Sheba; but he fell down and humbled himself before her, and was carried to an inner chamber and laid on a bed of state; which was not a little defiled with the presents of the queen which had been bestowed on his garments; such as wine, cream, beverage, cakes, spices, and other good matters.
Pàgina 89 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Pàgina 170 - Sessions-House at the Old Bailey. There were not, I believe, a hundred; but they did their work at leisure, in full security, without sentinels, without trepidation, as men lawfully employed, in full day: Such is the cowardice of a commercial place.
Pàgina 159 - Heaven ! of woes like ours, And let us, let us weep no more.' The dismal scene was o'er and past, The lover's mournful hearse retired ; The maid drew back her languid head, And, sighing forth his name, expired.
Pàgina 86 - Now did Peace make entry, and strive to get foremost to the king ; but I grieve to tell how great wrath she did discover unto those of her attendants ; and, much contrary to her semblance, most rudely made war with her olive branch, and laid on the pates of those who did oppose her coming.
Pàgina 118 - I find the Duke of Albemarle at dinner with sorry company, some of his officers of the Army: dirty dishes and a nasty wife at table, and bad meat, of which I made but an ill dinner.
Pàgina 154 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Pàgina 85 - I think the Dane hath strangely wrought on our good English nobles; for those whom I could never get to taste good liquor, now follow the fashion, and wallow in beastly delights. The ladies abandon their sobriety, and are seen to roll about in intoxication.
Pàgina 245 - ... how at the head of his troop he stopped a lady's coach, in which there was a booty of four hundred pounds ; how he took only one hundred, and suffered the fair owner to ransom the rest by dancing a coranto with him on the heath...
Pàgina 98 - ... that night, to the Blue Boar Inn in Holborn ; for there he was to take horse, and go to Dover with it. This messenger knew nothing of the letter in the saddle, but some persons in Dover did.