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... fashioned most of modern London . He was born in 1632 and died in 1723. Early in life he devoted himself to astronomy , chemistry , anatomy and mathe- 1 matics as well as to architecture , his real art [ 14 ] NOOKS AND CORNERS.
... fashioned most of modern London . He was born in 1632 and died in 1723. Early in life he devoted himself to astronomy , chemistry , anatomy and mathe- 1 matics as well as to architecture , his real art [ 14 ] NOOKS AND CORNERS.
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... died and was buried in the St. Paul's he had con- structed . His last years were sorrowful in that he was almost entirely neglected by the country for which he had done so much . The pigeons strutting about Guildhall Yard in front of ...
... died and was buried in the St. Paul's he had con- structed . His last years were sorrowful in that he was almost entirely neglected by the country for which he had done so much . The pigeons strutting about Guildhall Yard in front of ...
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... died very poor . An aged sign , setting forth what looks to be a swan with two heads , is set in the doorway above a railway parcels office in Gresham Street , at the Aldermanbury corner , and is the original marking of the tavern ...
... died very poor . An aged sign , setting forth what looks to be a swan with two heads , is set in the doorway above a railway parcels office in Gresham Street , at the Aldermanbury corner , and is the original marking of the tavern ...
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... died here a prisoner . DeFoe was detained here for publishing his " Shortest Way with Dissenters , " and William Penn for preaching in the streets . For eighty years the open space in front of Newgate was used for public executions ...
... died here a prisoner . DeFoe was detained here for publishing his " Shortest Way with Dissenters , " and William Penn for preaching in the streets . For eighty years the open space in front of Newgate was used for public executions ...
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... died in 1631 , and his epitaph reads : Here lies one conquered that hath conquered kings . St. Sepulchre was the last church edifice swept away by the great fire of 1666 . Where Cock Lane touches Giltspur Street , is Pie Corner , the ...
... died in 1631 , and his epitaph reads : Here lies one conquered that hath conquered kings . St. Sepulchre was the last church edifice swept away by the great fire of 1666 . Where Cock Lane touches Giltspur Street , is Pie Corner , the ...
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18th century afterwards Aldgate Alley ancient baptised Bell Bishop Bishopsgate Bleak House born brick Buckingham building built buried called Chancery Lane chapel Charing Cross Charles Cheapside church of St City close Club Coffee House Covent Garden Curzon David Garrick death demolished destroyed Dickens died Duke Earl east Edward entrance Essex famous Fire Fleet Street gate gateway George Goldsmith Grinling Gibbons ground Hall head Henry VIII Holborn house numbered hundred Inigo Jones Inner Temple Inns of Chancery James James's John King lived Ludgate Hill mark married Mary Milton narrow Newgate north side old church OLD LONDON old Roman Oliver Goldsmith once palace Park Paul's Pepys poet Prince prison quaint Queen reign Richard river road Royal Samuel Johnson Savoy Sir Christopher Wren Smithfield south side spot stands stone stood tablet telling takes its name tavern Thames thoroughfare to-day tomb Tower Trafalgar Square Tyburn wall William wrote Yard
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Page 21 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 29 - All you that in the condemned hold do lie, Prepare you, for to-morrow you shall die ; Watch all, and pray, the hour is drawing near That you before the Almighty must appear ; Examine well yourselves, in time repent, That you may not to eternal flames be sent. And when St. Sepulchre's bell to-morrow tolls, The Lord above have mercy on your souls. Past twelve o'clock!
Page 98 - 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 167 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
Page 23 - POOR SUSAN AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years : Poor Susan has pass'd by the spot, and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. 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.
Page 174 - When Harry the Eighth left the Pope in the lurch, The Protestants made him the head of the Church ; But George's good subjects, the Bloomsbury people, Instead of the church, made him head of the steeple.
Page 148 - When in long rank a train of torches flame, To light the midnight visits of the dame?
Page 157 - The end of our Club is to advance conversation and friendship, and to reward deserving persons with our interest and recommendation. We take in none but men of wit or men of interest; and if we go on as we begin, no other Club in this town will be worth talking of.
Page 56 - Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sitting upon London stone, I charge and command that, of the city's cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but claret wine this first year of our reign. And now henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls me other than Lord Mortimer.
Page 72 - Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee, O God! I speak it, having no other friends but thee alone.