Haunts of Old London: Being Twenty-five Etchings of Literary and Historical London in Photogravure

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L. Phillips, 1914 - 4 Seiten
 

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Seite ix - Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royallest seed That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin: Here the bones of birth have cried 'Though gods they were, as men they died!
Seite i - This noble equestrian statue, in which the commanding grace of the figure, and the exquisite form of the horse, are striking to the most unpractised eye...
Seite xi - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us...
Seite iii - Chelsea is a singular heterogeneous kind of spot, very dirty and confused in some places, quite beautiful in others, abounding with antiquities and the traces of great men — Sir Thomas More, Steele, Smollett, etc.
Seite ii - I could not make out, sir, who she was,' said Murray's clerk, describing her grace's appearance and manner, ' for she would not tell me her name ; but she swore so dreadfully that I am sure she must be a lady of quality.
Seite ix - ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY MORTALITY, behold and fear What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones ; Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands, Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust They preach, «In greatness is no trust».
Seite xvii - Kensington," says Leigh Hunt in his delightful ' Old Court Suburb,' " might say that it has a Palace which is no palace, Gardens which are no gardens, and a river called the Serpentine, which is neither serpentine nor a river.

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