Memoirs of the City of London and Its Celebrities, Band 1L.C. Page, 1902 |
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... with Lacy in 1747. The theatre in Goodman's Fields appears to have been pulled down shortly after Garrick quitted it . Another theatre subsequently rose on its site , which was destroyed by fire in LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES . 25.
... with Lacy in 1747. The theatre in Goodman's Fields appears to have been pulled down shortly after Garrick quitted it . Another theatre subsequently rose on its site , which was destroyed by fire in LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES . 25.
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... appears in the burial register of St. Mary's , White- chapel : " 1649 , June 21st . Rich . Brandon , a man out of Rosemary Lane . " To which is added , " This R. Brandon is supposed to have cut off the head of Charles the First ...
... appears in the burial register of St. Mary's , White- chapel : " 1649 , June 21st . Rich . Brandon , a man out of Rosemary Lane . " To which is added , " This R. Brandon is supposed to have cut off the head of Charles the First ...
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... appear to have suffered frightfully during the raging of the great plague in 1665. Stepney parish , " says Defoe , " had a piece of ground taken in to bury their dead , close to the churchyard , and which , for that very reason , was ...
... appear to have suffered frightfully during the raging of the great plague in 1665. Stepney parish , " says Defoe , " had a piece of ground taken in to bury their dead , close to the churchyard , and which , for that very reason , was ...
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... appear ; Who , with courage stout and manly might , Slew Wat Tyler in King Richard's sight ; For which act done , and true intent , The king made him knight incontinent ; And gave him arms , as here you see , To declare his feat and ...
... appear ; Who , with courage stout and manly might , Slew Wat Tyler in King Richard's sight ; For which act done , and true intent , The king made him knight incontinent ; And gave him arms , as here you see , To declare his feat and ...
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... appears to have been often selected for the burial of the lord mayors of London . Here were interred John of Oxenford , vintner and lord mayor in 1341 ; Sir John Wrotch , lord mayor in 1360 ; William Venour , in 1389 ; William More , in ...
... appears to have been often selected for the burial of the lord mayors of London . Here were interred John of Oxenford , vintner and lord mayor in 1341 ; Sir John Wrotch , lord mayor in 1360 ; William Venour , in 1389 ; William More , in ...
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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...