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... Honour , the Eunuch , the Mournful Nuptials , Love the Cause and Cure of Grief ; Mr. Cooke was also editor of the works of Andrew Marvel . This parish has the honour of being the birth place of the late THOMAS BANKS , Esq . R. A. He was ...
... Honour , the Eunuch , the Mournful Nuptials , Love the Cause and Cure of Grief ; Mr. Cooke was also editor of the works of Andrew Marvel . This parish has the honour of being the birth place of the late THOMAS BANKS , Esq . R. A. He was ...
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... house , under a tree , called The Oak of Honour , from a tradition that * Ellis's Campagna of London . ↑ Afterwards the wife of general Lascelles . queer queen Elizabeth was used often to repose under it . CIRCUIT OF LONDON . 57.
... house , under a tree , called The Oak of Honour , from a tradition that * Ellis's Campagna of London . ↑ Afterwards the wife of general Lascelles . queer queen Elizabeth was used often to repose under it . CIRCUIT OF LONDON . 57.
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... honours of the first rank . This antient spirit they still boast of , but at the same time it is blended with humanity . William of Malmsbury writes , that " they retain a spirit above the rest of the English , being more ready to ...
... honours of the first rank . This antient spirit they still boast of , but at the same time it is blended with humanity . William of Malmsbury writes , that " they retain a spirit above the rest of the English , being more ready to ...
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... honour of knighthood on the captain . " A prodigious concourse of people assembled on the occasion ; and a wooden bridge , on which were a hundred persons , broke down , but no lives were lost . Sir Francis Drake's ship , when it became ...
... honour of knighthood on the captain . " A prodigious concourse of people assembled on the occasion ; and a wooden bridge , on which were a hundred persons , broke down , but no lives were lost . Sir Francis Drake's ship , when it became ...
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... honoured by his majesty's sin- gular protection . Thus they gave the palace for the use of disabled English seamen and their children , and for the widows and children of such as were slain at sea , King William also appointed ...
... honoured by his majesty's sin- gular protection . Thus they gave the palace for the use of disabled English seamen and their children , and for the widows and children of such as were slain at sea , King William also appointed ...
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abbey afterwards antient archbishop archbishop of Canterbury arches bart beautiful belonging bishop Blackheath bridge building built called Canterbury castle chancel chapel Charles Charles II court crown Croydon Dartford dedicated to St Deptford died Domesday Book duke earl east Edward Edward III elegant eminent England erected expence feet formerly four gallery gardens George granted Gravesend Greenwich ground Guildford hall handsome Henry VIII Hill honour hospital hundred inhabitants inscription James Kent king knights lady land late London lord Maidstone manor mansion marble Mary mayor memory miles monument noble ornamented painted palace park parliament portrait present prince queen Elizabeth residence Richard river river Medway river Mole river Thames road Rochester Roman royal Saxon seat Sevenoak side Sir John Sir Thomas Sir William situated stone Surrey Thames tion tower town Tring village wall Windsor wood
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Página 430 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 371 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows. There let the feasted eye unwearied stray; Luxurious, there, rove through the pendent woods That nodding hang o'er Harrington's retreat...
Página 430 - Shrewsbury and love; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Página 3 - With which she calculates, computes and scans All distance, motion, magnitude, and now Measures an atom, and now girds a world? In London ; where has commerce such a mart, So rich, so throng'd, so drain'd, and so supplied, As London— opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London?
Página 411 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Página 11 - madam I may not call you, mistress I am ashamed to call you, and so I know not what to call you ; but, howsoever, I thank you.
Página 203 - RICHARD WATTS, Esq. by his Will, dated 22 Aug. 1579, founded this Charity for Six poor Travellers, who not being ROGUES, or PROCTORS, May receive gratis for one Night, Lodging, Entertainment, and Fourpence each.
Página 345 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described, with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Página 373 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 460 - Lord, I am a great deal older than your Grace, " and have, I believe, heard more arguments for " Atheism than ever your Grace did ; but I have " lived long enough to see there is nothing in them ; " and so, I hope, your Grace will.