Memoirs of the City of London and Its Celebrities, Band 1L.C. Page, 1902 |
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... close of his life , William Turner , the eminent naturalist of the sixteenth century . He probably died here , for his remains were interred in the chancel of the neighbouring church of St. Olave's , Hart Street . The old navy office ...
... close of his life , William Turner , the eminent naturalist of the sixteenth century . He probably died here , for his remains were interred in the chancel of the neighbouring church of St. Olave's , Hart Street . The old navy office ...
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... close to the Crutched Friars , stood the mansion of the Percys , Earls of Northumberland . Here resided Henry , the second earl , who fought in the battle of Agincourt and at Chevy Chase , and who after- ward fell at the battle of St ...
... close to the Crutched Friars , stood the mansion of the Percys , Earls of Northumberland . Here resided Henry , the second earl , who fought in the battle of Agincourt and at Chevy Chase , and who after- ward fell at the battle of St ...
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... close vicinity . Neither would they seem to have been very wrong in their apprehensions , inasmuch as Sir John Hawkins informs us that the new theatre was soon sur- rounded by a " halo of brothels . " The clamour of the citizens for a ...
... close vicinity . Neither would they seem to have been very wrong in their apprehensions , inasmuch as Sir John Hawkins informs us that the new theatre was soon sur- rounded by a " halo of brothels . " The clamour of the citizens for a ...
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... close to Goodman's Fields , died Richard Brandon , the public executioner , who is said to have be- headed Charles the First . The following entry appears in the burial register of St. Mary's , White- chapel : " 1649 , June 21st . Rich ...
... close to Goodman's Fields , died Richard Brandon , the public executioner , who is said to have be- headed Charles the First . The following entry appears in the burial register of St. Mary's , White- chapel : " 1649 , June 21st . Rich ...
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... 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 left open , and is LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES . 33.
... 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 left open , and is LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES . 33.
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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...