Historical and literary memorials of the city of LondonJ.C. Nimmo, 1901 |
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... beautiful Lady Sarah Bunbury , the first , and per- haps the only , romantic love of George the Third . Many years after the beauty of both ladies had been on the decline , the king happened to attend the performances at Drury Lane when ...
... beautiful Lady Sarah Bunbury , the first , and per- haps the only , romantic love of George the Third . Many years after the beauty of both ladies had been on the decline , the king happened to attend the performances at Drury Lane when ...
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... beautiful Georgiana , Duchess of Devonshire , held her court within its walls , and when Fox , Burke , Wyndham , Fitzpatrick , and Sheridan did homage at her feet . It would be difficult , at the present day , to convey even the ...
... beautiful Georgiana , Duchess of Devonshire , held her court within its walls , and when Fox , Burke , Wyndham , Fitzpatrick , and Sheridan did homage at her feet . It would be difficult , at the present day , to convey even the ...
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... beautiful duchess , " breathed their last . - - The gardens of Clarendon House appear to have adjoined those of Berkeley House , and to have ex- tended to the east as far as the present Burlington Arcade . Clarendon House , the delight ...
... beautiful duchess , " breathed their last . - - The gardens of Clarendon House appear to have adjoined those of Berkeley House , and to have ex- tended to the east as far as the present Burlington Arcade . Clarendon House , the delight ...
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... beautiful gardens . Evelyn witnessed with great pain " the sad demolition of that costly and sumptuous palace of the late lord chancellor , where he had often been so cheerful with him , and sometimes so sad . " And on the 19th of June ...
... beautiful gardens . Evelyn witnessed with great pain " the sad demolition of that costly and sumptuous palace of the late lord chancellor , where he had often been so cheerful with him , and sometimes so sad . " And on the 19th of June ...
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John Heneage Jesse. The interior is as reign of James the Second . beautiful as the exterior is unseemly ; but even if it possessed no other object of beauty or interest , the exquisite marble font , the work of Grinlin Gibbons , would ...
John Heneage Jesse. The interior is as reign of James the Second . beautiful as the exterior is unseemly ; but even if it possessed no other object of beauty or interest , the exquisite marble font , the work of Grinlin Gibbons , would ...
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Page 312 - Mighty victor, mighty lord! Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.
Page 435 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 373 - Now mark me how I will undo myself: I give this heavy weight from off my head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of kingly sway from out my heart; With mine own tears I wash away my balm, With mine own hands I give away my crown, With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, With mine own breath release all duteous oaths; All pomp and majesty I do forswear; My manors, rents, revenues, I forgo; My acts, decrees, and statutes, I deny.
Page 436 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Page 237 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 303 - Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge, enough The characters of hell to trace...
Page 440 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion: when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...
Page 319 - Why doth the crown lie there, upon his pillow, Being so troublesome a bedfellow ? O polish'd perturbation ! golden care ! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night, sleep with it now ! Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet, As he, whose brow with homely biggin bound, Snores out the watch of night.
Page 279 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 460 - Blest be the great ! for those they take away, And those they left me; for they left me Gay : Left me to see neglected genius bloom, 'Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn...