The churches of London, by G. Godwin assisted by J. Britton, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1839 - Church buildings |
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Page 11 - tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Page 4 - ... 1512. The arches or bowes thereupon, with the lanthorns, five in number, to wit, one at each corner, and one on the top in the middle upon the arches, were also afterward finished of stone, brought from Caen in Normandy, delivered at the Customers key for 45.
Page 5 - Foxing, which first became general in his day, undaunted by the overwhelming influence of power and prejudice and the voice of nations, he uniformly and until death perseveringly opposed, conscientiously believing it to be a public infatuation, fraught with peril of the most mischievous consequences to mankind...
Page 3 - Whereunto the Clerk replying wrote : ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will.
Page 1 - Thames! Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods ! Chose for his grand resort. On either hand, Like a long wintry forest, groves of masts Shot up their spires; the bellying sheet between...