Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons of the Great Town, Volum 1R. Bentley, 1865 - 331 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... answer is- London Bridge is broken down , On Christmas - day in the morning . These lines are from a Newcastle carol : the inference has always been that , until the Bridge was rebuilt , some stop would be put to Dame Christmas's opera ...
... answer is- London Bridge is broken down , On Christmas - day in the morning . These lines are from a Newcastle carol : the inference has always been that , until the Bridge was rebuilt , some stop would be put to Dame Christmas's opera ...
Pàgina 17
... answer the legislative purpose . The vagrant propensity that emptied so many a sty of its denizen became a nuisance ; for we read that early in the reign of Edward I. four men were " chosen and sworn to take and kill all swine found ...
... answer the legislative purpose . The vagrant propensity that emptied so many a sty of its denizen became a nuisance ; for we read that early in the reign of Edward I. four men were " chosen and sworn to take and kill all swine found ...
Pàgina 61
... answered her , ' No , Madame . ' She tyed the kercher about her eyes ; then feeling for the blocke , saide , What shall I do ? Where is it ? ' One of the standers - by guyding her therunto , she layde her heade down upon the block , and ...
... answered her , ' No , Madame . ' She tyed the kercher about her eyes ; then feeling for the blocke , saide , What shall I do ? Where is it ? ' One of the standers - by guyding her therunto , she layde her heade down upon the block , and ...
Pàgina 70
... answered the knight , and said , it was good drink , if a man might but tarry by it . " Prithee , never fear , Ceeston , " cried he to his old friend Sir Hugh , who was repulsed from the scaffold by the sheriff , " I shall have a place ...
... answered the knight , and said , it was good drink , if a man might but tarry by it . " Prithee , never fear , Ceeston , " cried he to his old friend Sir Hugh , who was repulsed from the scaffold by the sheriff , " I shall have a place ...
Pàgina 83
... answered every ques- tion put to him with perfect coolness and decision . His name , he said , was John Johnson , his condition that of a servant to Mr. Percy . He declined to say if he had ac- complices , but declared his object was ...
... answered every ques- tion put to him with perfect coolness and decision . His name , he said , was John Johnson , his condition that of a servant to Mr. Percy . He declined to say if he had ac- complices , but declared his object was ...
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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.