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... Thames Street ⚫ 35 CHAPTER III . QUEENHITHE , BAYNARD'S CASTLE , HOUSES OF THE NOBILITY , BLACKFRIARS , ETC. Derivation of the Name of Queenhithe - Celebrated Resi- dents in Baynard's Castle- - Mansions near Paul's Wharf - 4404 ...
... Thames Street ⚫ 35 CHAPTER III . QUEENHITHE , BAYNARD'S CASTLE , HOUSES OF THE NOBILITY , BLACKFRIARS , ETC. Derivation of the Name of Queenhithe - Celebrated Resi- dents in Baynard's Castle- - Mansions near Paul's Wharf - 4404 ...
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... Thames . It is said to have derived its name from a fine spring ( probably called shady well ) , near the south wall of the churchyard . In the time of Charles the Second this now populous district was still open country , and was ...
... Thames . It is said to have derived its name from a fine spring ( probably called shady well ) , near the south wall of the churchyard . In the time of Charles the Second this now populous district was still open country , and was ...
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... Thames Street . - LET us return to Tower Hill , and , skirting Thames Street from Billingsgate to Blackfriars Bridge , point out in our route the principal objects worthy of notice . Billingsgate , one of the ancient water - gates , or ...
... Thames Street . - LET us return to Tower Hill , and , skirting Thames Street from Billingsgate to Blackfriars Bridge , point out in our route the principal objects worthy of notice . Billingsgate , one of the ancient water - gates , or ...
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... Thames Street ; but the company now occupy a fine modern building , erected in 1831 , close to the north approach of London Bridge . The famous Lord Mayor of London , Sir William Wal- worth , who killed Wat Tyler at Smithfield , was a ...
... Thames Street ; but the company now occupy a fine modern building , erected in 1831 , close to the north approach of London Bridge . The famous Lord Mayor of London , Sir William Wal- worth , who killed Wat Tyler at Smithfield , was a ...
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... ― Opposite to Billingsgate , on the north side of Thames Street , is St. Mary - at - Hill , on the west side of which is a church , dedicated to the Virgin Mary . Of the date of its foundation nothing cer- 40 LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES .
... ― Opposite to Billingsgate , on the north side of Thames Street , is St. Mary - at - Hill , on the west side of which is a church , dedicated to the Virgin Mary . Of the date of its foundation nothing cer- 40 LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES .
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Seite 340 - For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Seite 159 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Seite 84 - Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well.
Seite 133 - Church, to which the scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
Seite 316 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street" — , " lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Seite 140 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little alehouse on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow, and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Seite 143 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Seite 221 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America...
Seite 340 - A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would iteer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Seite 136 - Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses at that end of the bridge all on fire, and an infinite great fire on this and the other...