Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851Charles Knight C. Knight, 1851 - 860 páginas |
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... monuments than the church itself . The ' Dance of Machabray , ' or ' Dance of Death , ' commonly called , says Stow , the ' Dance of Paul's , ' was painted in a part of this cloister . Nothing was left of it but a bare plot of ground ...
... monuments than the church itself . The ' Dance of Machabray , ' or ' Dance of Death , ' commonly called , says Stow , the ' Dance of Paul's , ' was painted in a part of this cloister . Nothing was left of it but a bare plot of ground ...
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... monument of the kingdom . The earliest historical description of the Tower , that of Fitz - Stephen , who died in 1191 , has something striking amidst its brevity . " It ( London ) hath on the east part a Tower Palatine , very large and ...
... monument of the kingdom . The earliest historical description of the Tower , that of Fitz - Stephen , who died in 1191 , has something striking amidst its brevity . " It ( London ) hath on the east part a Tower Palatine , very large and ...
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... monument is of differently coloured marbles , and gives an account of the conspiracy , the names of the actors , and of the commissioners who examined them , & c . We pass now to the Chapel of St. Peter . This most interesting building ...
... monument is of differently coloured marbles , and gives an account of the conspiracy , the names of the actors , and of the commissioners who examined them , & c . We pass now to the Chapel of St. Peter . This most interesting building ...
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... monument among them . And , though he may have never written a line , we could almost ven- ture to assert he must ... monuments on the wall by our side , we perceive one standing out from the rest in hoar antiquity , a fine old gothic ...
... monument among them . And , though he may have never written a line , we could almost ven- ture to assert he must ... monuments on the wall by our side , we perceive one standing out from the rest in hoar antiquity , a fine old gothic ...
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... monument ; and , like the fabled swan , he may be said to have literally died singing . Among his works we find ' A ballad made by Geoffrey Chaucer upon his death - bed , lying in his great anguish ; ' a touching and memorable passage ...
... monument ; and , like the fabled swan , he may be said to have literally died singing . Among his works we find ' A ballad made by Geoffrey Chaucer upon his death - bed , lying in his great anguish ; ' a touching and memorable passage ...
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Página 179 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Página 414 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be. Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign.
Página 205 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Página 201 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Página 211 - Kneller, by Heaven, and not a master taught, Whose art was nature, and whose pictures thought ; Now for two ages, having snatch'd from fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes' honours, Poets' lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise.
Página 420 - E'en such is man; whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth; The flower fades, the morning hasteth; The sun sets, the shadow flies; The gourd consumes, — and man he dies...
Página 370 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Página 205 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Página 132 - ... air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and...
Página 9 - Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between and Mrs. Nelly, f as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene.