London ...: Illustrated by ... Bird's-eye Views of the Principal Streets, Also a Street Map of Central London and a Map of the London Underground Electric Railways ...W.H. Allen and Company [etc., etc.,], 1887 |
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... once well filled but now almost deserted , for the busy citizens no longer reside at their places of business , but in suburban dwellings , where rents are cheaper and the air more pure . The City Companies , once powerful trade guilds ...
... once well filled but now almost deserted , for the busy citizens no longer reside at their places of business , but in suburban dwellings , where rents are cheaper and the air more pure . The City Companies , once powerful trade guilds ...
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... once announced that in one lesson he would show anybody how to make a pair of shoes in two minutes . When the crowd had assembled and paid their entrance money , the Orator , after a little flourish of words , explained his new method ...
... once announced that in one lesson he would show anybody how to make a pair of shoes in two minutes . When the crowd had assembled and paid their entrance money , the Orator , after a little flourish of words , explained his new method ...
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... once lived . Hogarth's print of ' Night ' shows the position of the street before it was widened . 66 Farther down , upon the right - hand side , we see The Admiralty , built ( 1726 ) by Ripley , upon the site of Peterborough ...
... once lived . Hogarth's print of ' Night ' shows the position of the street before it was widened . 66 Farther down , upon the right - hand side , we see The Admiralty , built ( 1726 ) by Ripley , upon the site of Peterborough ...
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... once surrounded by the memorials of all the great and honoured worthies of English literature . Here is the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer , the father of English poetry ; and above it is a handsome memorial window to Chaucer , erected 1868 ...
... once surrounded by the memorials of all the great and honoured worthies of English literature . Here is the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer , the father of English poetry ; and above it is a handsome memorial window to Chaucer , erected 1868 ...
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... once in a week . The Members ' Entrance is either by the public approaches , or by a private door and staircase from the Star Chamber Court ( so called from its occupying the site of the old much - dreaded Star Chamber ) . The Upper ...
... once in a week . The Members ' Entrance is either by the public approaches , or by a private door and staircase from the Star Chamber Court ( so called from its occupying the site of the old much - dreaded Star Chamber ) . The Upper ...
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Abbey acres ancient Blackfriars Broad Street Buckingham building built buried Camden Town Chapel Charing Cross Charles Charles II Cheapside Chelsea Church Circus City Club Club-house collection Company contains corner Court Crown Duke Earl east Edgware Road edifice Edward Elephant and Castle entrance erected Essex Exhibition famous feet Finsbury Fleet Street Gallery Gardens Gate George George's Green Hall Henry VIII Holborn Hospital Hotel House Inns of Chancery Islington James James's John Kensington King King's Cross Lane London Bridge Lord Ludgate Hill mansion Mary memory miles from London Museum Newgate occupied Office Omnibuses Oxford Street Paddington Palace Pall Mall Parliament Paul's Piccadilly portraits Prince Prison Queen Railway rebuilt Regent Street residence Royal School side Society Southwark Square Station Statue stood Strand Tavern Temple Terminus Thames Theatre Tottenham Tower Town Victoria Victoria Station visitors Waterloo Waterloo Station Westminster Whitehall William Wren
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Seite 76 - Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three : and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
Seite 60 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Seite 128 - FELKIN, HM— Technical Education in a Saxon Town. Published for the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education.
Seite 57 - Their heads all stooping low, their points all in a row, Like a whirlwind on the trees, like a deluge on the...
Seite 151 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Seite 65 - Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Seite 41 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 166 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Seite 60 - 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.