Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons of the Great Town, Volum 1R. Bentley, 1865 - 331 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... received in all its different versions . The stanzas last quoted are the introductory lines of an old ballad , which the copyist , more than seventy years pre- viously , had heard plaintively warbled by a lady who was born in the reign ...
... received in all its different versions . The stanzas last quoted are the introductory lines of an old ballad , which the copyist , more than seventy years pre- viously , had heard plaintively warbled by a lady who was born in the reign ...
Pàgina 12
... received his first rudiments of drawing from a sign and house painter on London Bridge ; " and that " the shallow waves that rolled under his window , taught young Monamy what his master could not teach him , and fitted him to paint the ...
... received his first rudiments of drawing from a sign and house painter on London Bridge ; " and that " the shallow waves that rolled under his window , taught young Monamy what his master could not teach him , and fitted him to paint the ...
Pàgina 15
... received them . The ladies dismounted , and with- drew to their allotted seats ; while the knights mounted their steeds , laced their helmets , and prepared for the encounter . They tilted each other till dark . They all then adjourned ...
... received them . The ladies dismounted , and with- drew to their allotted seats ; while the knights mounted their steeds , laced their helmets , and prepared for the encounter . They tilted each other till dark . They all then adjourned ...
Pàgina 25
... received from one , who has only to make a place the scene of his matchless impersonations in order to confer on it an immortality of interest . In this man- ner , one greater than Richard Plantagenet has done that for Crosby Place ...
... received from one , who has only to make a place the scene of his matchless impersonations in order to confer on it an immortality of interest . In this man- ner , one greater than Richard Plantagenet has done that for Crosby Place ...
Pàgina 26
... received the attention which it has from Shakspeare , was from some association existing in his own mind . " Doubtless ; but the writer considers that " it is not too much to suppose that he had been ad- mitted in the humble guise of a ...
... received the attention which it has from Shakspeare , was from some association existing in his own mind . " Doubtless ; but the writer considers that " it is not too much to suppose that he had been ad- mitted in the humble guise of a ...
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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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Passatges populars
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.