Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including Characteristic Sketches, Antiquarian, Topographical, Descriptive, and Literary, Volume 3Hurst, Chance, and Company, 1829 - London (England) |
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... Execution of several Jesuits at Tyburn..The Meal - Tub , or Dangerfield's Plot..Mock ceremony of burning the Pope .. Portrait of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey in St. Martin's Church..An ac- count of his murder from a scarce pamphlet ...
... Execution of several Jesuits at Tyburn..The Meal - Tub , or Dangerfield's Plot..Mock ceremony of burning the Pope .. Portrait of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey in St. Martin's Church..An ac- count of his murder from a scarce pamphlet ...
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... Execution of the Bailiff of Romford 242-245 Chaucer's account of the Great May Pole , or Shaft , in Cornhill..St . Andrew Under - Shaft , why so called .. The shaft stigmatized as an Idol , in a Dis- course at St. Paul's Cross , and ...
... Execution of the Bailiff of Romford 242-245 Chaucer's account of the Great May Pole , or Shaft , in Cornhill..St . Andrew Under - Shaft , why so called .. The shaft stigmatized as an Idol , in a Dis- course at St. Paul's Cross , and ...
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... executed by Caius Gabriel Cibber , the father of Colley Cibber the actor , drama- tist , and poet - laureat . Pope greatly contributed to the popular fame of those statues by styling them , ( in his Dunciad , ) with alliterative satire ...
... executed by Caius Gabriel Cibber , the father of Colley Cibber the actor , drama- tist , and poet - laureat . Pope greatly contributed to the popular fame of those statues by styling them , ( in his Dunciad , ) with alliterative satire ...
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... execution , some of the party were apprehended and suffered as traitors ; whose death , Blood , and the other survivors , bound themselves by a solemn oath to revenge upon the Duke's person : and he , with five or six others ...
... execution , some of the party were apprehended and suffered as traitors ; whose death , Blood , and the other survivors , bound themselves by a solemn oath to revenge upon the Duke's person : and he , with five or six others ...
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... executed some of his friends ; for which he and many others were bound by a solemn oath to be revenged . Lest the concealment of any of his audacities should detract from the romance of his life , he also volunta- rily confessed to the ...
... executed some of his friends ; for which he and many others were bound by a solemn oath to be revenged . Lest the concealment of any of his audacities should detract from the romance of his life , he also volunta- rily confessed to the ...
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Page 226 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 34 - Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Page 227 - And sung their thankful hymns: 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, — Whenas a thousand virgins on this day, Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Page 300 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose : And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 274 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had. Right faithfull true he was in deede and word, But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad; Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
Page 268 - ... aforesaid laws, and canons of our Church : which to express more particularly, our pleasure is that the bishop, and all other inferior...
Page 80 - ... when the fire was entered, how quickly did it run round the galleries, filling them with flames : then descending the stairs, compasseth the walks, giving forth flaming vollies, and filling the court with sheets of fire ; by and by the kings fell all down upon their faces, and the greater part of the stone building after them (the founder's statue only remaining) with such noise as was astonishing.
Page 228 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields and we not see't?
Page 52 - E'en such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes,— and man he dies.
Page 228 - Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against you come, some orient pearls unwept; Come and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night: And Titan on the eastern hill Retires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth. Wash, dress, be brief in praying: Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.