The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, Band 4George Virtue, 1839 |
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... architect had proceeded in the church when Henry died in the year 1272. According to Fabian , the choir was not completed till thirteen years after his death . A short time previous to the re - building of the church , abbot Richard de ...
... architect had proceeded in the church when Henry died in the year 1272. According to Fabian , the choir was not completed till thirteen years after his death . A short time previous to the re - building of the church , abbot Richard de ...
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... architect ; Jeremiah Glanville , clerk of the works ; Thomas Gayfere , mason . Similar inscriptions were cut on other turrets . • The abbey church was nearly destroyed on the 9th of July , 1803 , through the carelessness of some ...
... architect ; Jeremiah Glanville , clerk of the works ; Thomas Gayfere , mason . Similar inscriptions were cut on other turrets . • The abbey church was nearly destroyed on the 9th of July , 1803 , through the carelessness of some ...
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... architect , sir Christopher Wren , reprobates irreconcilable mixtures in designing , thus : I shall speedily prepare draughts and models , such as I conceive proper to agree with the original scheme of the architect , without any modern ...
... architect , sir Christopher Wren , reprobates irreconcilable mixtures in designing , thus : I shall speedily prepare draughts and models , such as I conceive proper to agree with the original scheme of the architect , without any modern ...
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... architect . The repairs on the south side of the abbey are still perfect . The chapter - house was injudiciously placed by the architect , as it hides all the south end of the transept ; and it was certainly never suffi- ciently ...
... architect . The repairs on the south side of the abbey are still perfect . The chapter - house was injudiciously placed by the architect , as it hides all the south end of the transept ; and it was certainly never suffi- ciently ...
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... architect , * in the Gentleman's Ma- gazine for July , 1799 , has given an account of this place , so much to my purpose , that I shall transcribe it without ceremony . likewise noticed , at the east end of the first division , a ...
... architect , * in the Gentleman's Ma- gazine for July , 1799 , has given an account of this place , so much to my purpose , that I shall transcribe it without ceremony . likewise noticed , at the east end of the first division , a ...
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Seite 521 - Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the Order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like : sufficient in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Seite 31 - ... of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them?" — King or queen,
Seite 308 - Dec. 11, 1756, immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison by the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, in consequence of which he registered his kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors. The grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings. But Theodore this moral learn'd ere dead : Fate pour'd its lessons on his living head, Bestow'da kingdom, and denied him bread.
Seite 518 - There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great...
Seite 122 - Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once ; but now I know it.
Seite 31 - O Lord, with the Holy Ghost the Comforter, and daily increase in them Thy manifold gifts of grace ; the spirit of wisdom and understanding ; the spirit of counsel and ghostly strength ; the spirit of knowledge and true godliness ; and fill them, O Lord, with the spirit of Thy holy fear, now and for ever. Amen.
Seite 522 - ... some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming, within less than an hour, the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks...
Seite 31 - ZADOK the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed Solomon king; and all the people rejoiced and said: God save the king, Long live the king, May the king live for ever.
Seite 31 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law, do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ?" King or Queen.
Seite 429 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; 3 I do beseech you, send for some of them.