London and Its Environs: Handbook for TravellersBaedeker, 1911 - 511 pages |
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16th cent Abbey adjoining Appx British bronze building bust carved Central centre Chapel Charing Cross Charles Chelsea church of St City Club collection comp contains corner Court Duke Earl Edward English entrance erected farther figures French G. F. Watts Gallery Gardens Gate George glass-case Grinling Gibbons Hall Henry VIII Hill Holborn Hospital Hotel House Pl Italian James James's John Kensington King King's Lady Landscape Lane leads London Bridge Lord Lord Leighton Ludgate Hill Madonna and Child marble Mary monument Museum occupied Office opposite Oxford St painted painter Palace Pall Mall Paolo Veronese Park Paul's Piccadilly Portrait Queen Victoria Railway Regent St relief Rembrandt Road Roman Royal sarcophagus scene School sculptures side Square staircase stands Station statue tablet Tate Gallery Temple terracotta Thames Theatre Titian tomb Tower Trafalgar Square viâ Virgin and Child visitors wall Westminster Westminster Abbey William window
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Page 206 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when 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...
Page 228 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 206 - The spaciousness and gloom of this vast edifice produce a profound and mysterious awe. We step cautiously and softly about, as if fearful of disturbing the hallowed silence of the tomb; while every footfall whispers along the walls, and chatters among the sepulchres, making us more sensible of the quiet we have interrupted.
Page 219 - Stone seems, by the cunning labor of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness...
Page 135 - Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and imperishable renown; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph...
Page 384 - I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king* — and of a king of England too...
Page 206 - 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.
Page 155 - This picture I, Alessandro, painted at the end of the year 1500. in the (troubles) of Italy in the half-time after the time during the fulfilment of the eleventh of St.
Page 370 - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Page 135 - Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities ; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the iuconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.