London: Its Literary and Historical CuriositiesKiggins and Kellogg, 1854 - 269 pages |
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... hundred and seventy- six years . Other historians insist that it existed nearly six centuries . Leaving such inquiries , how- ever , to be determined by more competent pens , we shall content ourself with merely picking up by the way ...
... hundred and seventy- six years . Other historians insist that it existed nearly six centuries . Leaving such inquiries , how- ever , to be determined by more competent pens , we shall content ourself with merely picking up by the way ...
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... added to the mammoth city during the last ten years , no less than two hundred miles of new streets ! It is estimated by Cunningham that if the streets of the Metropolis were put to- gether they would extend to 3000 miles in length . 14.
... added to the mammoth city during the last ten years , no less than two hundred miles of new streets ! It is estimated by Cunningham that if the streets of the Metropolis were put to- gether they would extend to 3000 miles in length . 14.
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... hundreds of steamboats , which take up and set down passengers at the different places between Chelsea and Gravesend ... hundred of the chief cities and towns of the United Kingdom . The telegraph is also laid down beneath the streets ...
... hundreds of steamboats , which take up and set down passengers at the different places between Chelsea and Gravesend ... hundred of the chief cities and towns of the United Kingdom . The telegraph is also laid down beneath the streets ...
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... hundred thousand houses , occupied by about two million five hundred thousand souls ; constituting not only the densest , but the busiest hive , the most wondrous workshop , and the richest bank in the world . The mere name of London ...
... hundred thousand houses , occupied by about two million five hundred thousand souls ; constituting not only the densest , but the busiest hive , the most wondrous workshop , and the richest bank in the world . The mere name of London ...
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... hundred and fifty - four million pounds sterling , in one year , the average being more than three millions of mo- ney daily - or that the loans of merely one house in the city throughout the year exceed thirty mil- lions ! " Where ...
... hundred and fifty - four million pounds sterling , in one year , the average being more than three millions of mo- ney daily - or that the loans of merely one house in the city throughout the year exceed thirty mil- lions ! " Where ...
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Page 261 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Page 114 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 231 - 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 lesson learn' d, ere dead ; Fate pour"d its lessons on his living head, Bestow'da kingdom and denied him bread.
Page 194 - MY prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done!
Page 134 - Thames' broad, aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride...
Page 15 - I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people. They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change; a...
Page 138 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly.
Page 150 - ... should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
Page 226 - Osborne was a man entirely destitute of shame, without sense of any disgrace but that of poverty. He told me, when he was doing that which raised Pope's resentment, that he should be put into The Dunciad; but he had the fate of
Page 139 - ... head that he ought to have done the honours of his literary residence to a foreign lady of quality, and, eager to show himself a man of gallantry, was hurrying down the staircase in violent agitation. He overtook us before we reached the...