London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Band 1Richard Bentley, 1850 |
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... famous hill , where so many of the gallant and the powerful have perished by a bloody and untimely death ? Here fell the wise and witty Sir Thomas More ; the great Protector Duke of Somerset ; and the young and accomplished Earl of ...
... famous hill , where so many of the gallant and the powerful have perished by a bloody and untimely death ? Here fell the wise and witty Sir Thomas More ; the great Protector Duke of Somerset ; and the young and accomplished Earl of ...
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... famous hospital and collegiate church of St. Katherine , founded in 1148 by Matilda of Bou- logne , wife of King Stephen , for the repose of the soul of her son Baldwin , and her daughter Matilda . It was afterwards refounded by Eleanor ...
... famous hospital and collegiate church of St. Katherine , founded in 1148 by Matilda of Bou- logne , wife of King Stephen , for the repose of the soul of her son Baldwin , and her daughter Matilda . It was afterwards refounded by Eleanor ...
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... famous Execution Dock , where pirates , and others , condemned for offences on the high seas , were for- merly executed . They were hanged on a temporary gibbet at low water - mark ; the body being allowed to remain there till it had ...
... famous Execution Dock , where pirates , and others , condemned for offences on the high seas , were for- merly executed . They were hanged on a temporary gibbet at low water - mark ; the body being allowed to remain there till it had ...
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... famous Lord Mayor of London , Sir William Walworth , who killed Wat Tyler at Smith- field , was a member of this company , his statue being still a conspicuous object in Fishmongers ' Hall . He is represented in the act of striking the ...
... famous Lord Mayor of London , Sir William Walworth , who killed Wat Tyler at Smith- field , was a member of this company , his statue being still a conspicuous object in Fishmongers ' Hall . He is represented in the act of striking the ...
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... famous as the spot where the great fire first broke out , on the 2d of September , 1666. In the middle of the last century the fol- lowing inscription was to be seen on the site of the house where it commenced ; but in consequence of ...
... famous as the spot where the great fire first broke out , on the 2d of September , 1666. In the middle of the last century the fol- lowing inscription was to be seen on the site of the house where it commenced ; but in consequence of ...
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Seite 345 - For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Seite 131 - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the water-side to another.
Seite 389 - Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous dames , and statesmen old In bearded majesty , appear.
Seite 128 - Church, to which the scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
Seite 135 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little alehouse on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow, and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Seite 320 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street" — , " lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Seite 132 - So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of York what I saw ; and that, unless his Majesty did command houses to be pulled down, nothing could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way.
Seite 138 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Seite 130 - Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.
Seite 245 - Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall.