The Picture of London, for 1803: Being a Correct Guide to All the Curiosities, Amusements, Exhibitions, Public Establishments, and Remarkable Objects, in and Near London; with a Collection of Appropriate Tables. For the Use of Strangers, Foreigners, and All Persons who are Not Intimately Acquainted with British MetropolisLewis & Company, 1802 - 420 Seiten |
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... gates under the Saxons and Danes under the Normans 3 its ancient military government its ecclesiastical history its modern division into three principal parts ' ibit . 6 7 its present civil government its lord - mayor and corporation ...
... gates under the Saxons and Danes under the Normans 3 its ancient military government its ecclesiastical history its modern division into three principal parts ' ibit . 6 7 its present civil government its lord - mayor and corporation ...
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... gate , corresponding with the great military roads , to which six others were added , as new roads were con structed , namely , the Postern on Tower - mill , Bishops- gate , Moorgate , Aldersgate , Ludgate , and Bridge- gate . The walls ...
... gate , corresponding with the great military roads , to which six others were added , as new roads were con structed , namely , the Postern on Tower - mill , Bishops- gate , Moorgate , Aldersgate , Ludgate , and Bridge- gate . The walls ...
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... kind of reading - desks . The rails with their gates that divide the choir and the aisle on each side , from the western part of the church , are of irøn , and are curious in their workmanship , as also are ST . PAUL'S CATHEDRAL . 37.
... kind of reading - desks . The rails with their gates that divide the choir and the aisle on each side , from the western part of the church , are of irøn , and are curious in their workmanship , as also are ST . PAUL'S CATHEDRAL . 37.
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... gates , weigh 200 tons , and 81 pounds , and cost 11,2021 . Os . 6d . This immense edifice was reared in 35 years , the first stone being laid on the 21st of June , 1675 , and the building completed in 1710 , exclusive of some of the ...
... gates , weigh 200 tons , and 81 pounds , and cost 11,2021 . Os . 6d . This immense edifice was reared in 35 years , the first stone being laid on the 21st of June , 1675 , and the building completed in 1710 , exclusive of some of the ...
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... gate on the northern side , has been praised with a little extrava- gance . This entrance has a very good effect , but falls short of the degree of magnificence and beauty ascribed to it . The interior architecture of this church it is ...
... gate on the northern side , has been praised with a little extrava- gance . This entrance has a very good effect , but falls short of the degree of magnificence and beauty ascribed to it . The interior architecture of this church it is ...
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Aldgate beautiful beds Bishopsgate Bishopsgate street Blackfriars Blackfriars Road Bloomsbury Bond street Borough Bridge building centre chapel Charing cross Cheapside church Church-yard coach Coffeehouse contains Cornhill Court Covent Garden Crown curious daily dinners Ditto edifice eight elegant eleven England erected excellent exhibited expence feet Fleet street Foundling Hospital four Frequented gallery gate gentlemen George's Gracechurch street Guildhall hall Haymarket hill Holborn Hospital hourly Hyde Park Inner Temple James's King King's Bench London Wall Lord Ludgate hill Mary-le-bone ment Messrs metropolis Middlesex miles nine o'clock Office ornamented Oxford street painted palace Paul's persons Piccadilly present principal prison Queen river road scite seven shillings side situated Society Soho Somerset Place Southwark square stairs stone Strand stranger Surry taste Tavern Temple Thames Street theatre tion Tower twelve walls Westminster Whitechapel Whitehall wines yard
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Seite 290 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Seite 111 - ... in Christ's Hospital; — examine the masters of the king's ships ; appoint pilots for the Thames ; — erect lighthouses and sea-marks ; — grant...
Seite 45 - There are two side aisles lower than ihe nave, in a just proportion, and which certainly unite with the other parts of the edifice, to produce a very harmonious effect. The choir is one of the most beautiful in Europe. It is divided from the western part of the great aisle, by a pair of noble iron gates, and terminates at the east by an elegant altar of white marble *. On the north and south it is enclosed by handsome stalls, in the gothic style. The floor is of marble flags, alternately black and...
Seite 82 - Normans, to secure the allegiance of his subjects ; although it appears, that the Romans had a fort on this spot. The Tower is governed by the constable of the Tower, who, at coronations and other state ceremonies, has the custody of the regalia. The principal entrance...
Seite 261 - Charingcross, in which the commanding grace of the figure, and exquisite form of the horse, are striking to the most unpractised eye.
Seite 48 - Gothic architecture in the world. On its site formerly stood a chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and also a tavern, distinguished by the sign of the White Rose. Henry, resolving to erect a superb mausoleum for himself and his family, pulled down the old chapel and tavern ; and on the llth of...
Seite 109 - But Letters, whether for Town or Country, may be put in at either of the Two Principal Offices Three Quarters of an Hour later for each Dispatch.
Seite 160 - ... an opportunity offers of placing them in a reputable service, or of procuring them the means of obtaining an honest livelihood. No young woman, who has behaved well during her stay in tho house, is discharged unprovided for.
Seite 134 - This excellent combination of the works of art is terminated above, in the segment between the great cornice and ceiling, by a painting of the Ascension, designed by West, and executed by Rebecca, in chiaro oscuro; forming the last of the series of paintings of the life of our Saviour which surround the chapel.