London, Or Interesting Memorials of Its Rise, Progress & Present State, Band 2T. Boys, 1824 |
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... walls was three acres and a half , one rood and a half , and six perches . The height of the tower and spire from the level ground was five hundred and twenty feet ; the ball , above the head of the spire , was so large , that it would ...
... walls was three acres and a half , one rood and a half , and six perches . The height of the tower and spire from the level ground was five hundred and twenty feet ; the ball , above the head of the spire , was so large , that it would ...
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... walls , corresponded in richness and splendour with the magnificence of the ex- terior . The high altar shone all over with precious stones , and was surrounded with images , " beautifully wrought . " At the right side of it , there was ...
... walls , corresponded in richness and splendour with the magnificence of the ex- terior . The high altar shone all over with precious stones , and was surrounded with images , " beautifully wrought . " At the right side of it , there was ...
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... wall , as early as the year 1109 ; but , if so , it had been suffered to fall to decay , since Edward I. com- plained , that by the lurking of thieves in the church- yard , various robberies and homicides were committed there , and he ...
... wall , as early as the year 1109 ; but , if so , it had been suffered to fall to decay , since Edward I. com- plained , that by the lurking of thieves in the church- yard , various robberies and homicides were committed there , and he ...
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... walls of the cathedral ; and , even " a play house " is said to have been among the erections with which the exterior was thus disfigured . If we may credit the assertions in an old tract , en- titled " Burnynge of Paules Church in ...
... walls of the cathedral ; and , even " a play house " is said to have been among the erections with which the exterior was thus disfigured . If we may credit the assertions in an old tract , en- titled " Burnynge of Paules Church in ...
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... consisting of rich armour was drawn here in 1586. On both these occasions a tem- porary wooden house was erected next to the walls for the purpose . It must doubtless have given pain to many a pious 28 HISTORIES . PERCY.
... consisting of rich armour was drawn here in 1586. On both these occasions a tem- porary wooden house was erected next to the walls for the purpose . It must doubtless have given pain to many a pious 28 HISTORIES . PERCY.
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Seite 153 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose : And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Seite 34 - Europe, as not long before repaired by the late king) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing remaining entire but the inscription in the architrave, showing by whom it was built, which had not one letter of it defaced.
Seite 242 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Seite 286 - God grant my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children...
Seite 26 - It is the market of young lecturers, whom you may cheapen here at all rates and sizes. It is the general mint of all famous lies, which are here like the legends of popery, first coined and stamped in the church. All inventions are emptied here, and not few pockets. The best sign of a temple in it is, that it is the thieves...
Seite 53 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Seite 111 - But this is but one; it is scarce credible what dreadful cases happened in particular families every day. People in the rage of the distemper, or in the torment of their swellings, which was indeed intolerable, running out of their own government, raving and distracted, and oftentimes laying violent hands upon themselves, throwing themselves out at their windows, shooting themselves, &c.; mothers murdering their own children in their lunacy...
Seite 32 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion : for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Seite 67 - Gentiles' great apostle's name, With grace divine great Anna's seen to rise, An awful form, that glads a nation's eyes. Beneath her feet four mighty realms appear, And with due reverence pay their homage there) Britain and Ireland seem to owe her grace, And e'en wild India wears a smiling face.
Seite 25 - It is more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.