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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... taste ; but the manufactures with which they are stored form their chief ornament . According to Mr. Colquhoun , London contains 8000 streets , lanes , alleys , and courts ; 60 squares ; and 160,000 houses , warehouses , and other ...
... taste ; but the manufactures with which they are stored form their chief ornament . According to Mr. Colquhoun , London contains 8000 streets , lanes , alleys , and courts ; 60 squares ; and 160,000 houses , warehouses , and other ...
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... taste , without which the fine arts have no existence , and mo- rals lose half their worth . The usual discernment and accuracy of the former , and the character for laborious research in the two latter , converted this injurious phan ...
... taste , without which the fine arts have no existence , and mo- rals lose half their worth . The usual discernment and accuracy of the former , and the character for laborious research in the two latter , converted this injurious phan ...
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... taste is to be found in the accidents of a nation's his- tory , and has vindicated England in the illustrious ex- amples of her poets . With the same breath , however , he acknowledges , that moral causes have existed to ob- struct the ...
... taste is to be found in the accidents of a nation's his- tory , and has vindicated England in the illustrious ex- amples of her poets . With the same breath , however , he acknowledges , that moral causes have existed to ob- struct the ...
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... taste fails to pay seve- ral visits . Commerce . But though London is really distinguished for the general propriety of its appearance , which arises out of the general excellence of its morals and manners , it must be acknowledged that ...
... taste fails to pay seve- ral visits . Commerce . But though London is really distinguished for the general propriety of its appearance , which arises out of the general excellence of its morals and manners , it must be acknowledged that ...
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... taste and exalt- ed genius been uncontrouled in forming the plan , this capital would have boasted of a more pure structure than even the present cathedral . Sir Christopher Wren invented three successive plans for this work ; the first ...
... taste and exalt- ed genius been uncontrouled in forming the plan , this capital would have boasted of a more pure structure than even the present cathedral . Sir Christopher Wren invented three successive plans for this work ; the first ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
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.