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London and Its Environs: A Practical Guide to the Metropolis and Its Vicinity - Page 109
1862 - 391 pages
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An Historical Description of Westminster Abbey: Its Monuments and ...

Westminster Abbey - London (England) - 1827 - 218 pages
...again ! — you seldom find A servant faithful, and a master kind. Short-hand he. wrote, hisfiower in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made. Well couth he numbers, and well meaaur'd land; Thus doth he now that ground whereon you stand, Wherein...
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An Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and ...

Westminster Abbey - London (England) - 1834 - 210 pages
...master's cost. Oh ! read these lines again ! — you seldom find A servant faithful, and a master kind. Short-hand he wrote, his flower in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made. Well Well couth he numbers, and well measur'd land; Thus doth he now that ground whereon you stand,...
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An historical description of Westminster-abbey, its monuments and curiosities

Westminster abbey - 1841 - 214 pages
...Oh ! read these lines again ! — you seldom find A servant faithful, and a master kind. Short hand he wrote, his flower in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made. Well couth he numbers, and well measur'd land ; Thus doth he now that ground whereon you stand, Wherein...
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A Historical Description of Westminster Abbey

1844 - 142 pages
...master's cost. Oh ! read these lines again ! — you seldom fiuii i servant faithful, and a master kind. Shorthand he wrote, his flower 'in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made. Well couth he numbers, and well measur'd land ; Thus doth he now that ground whereon you stand, Wherein...
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A Handbook to the Places of Public Worship in London

1851 - 364 pages
...master's cost. Oh ! read these lines again ! — you seldom find, A servant faithful and a master kind. Short-hand he wrote, his flower in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made. Well couth he numbers, and well-measur'd land ; Thus doth he now that ground whereon you stand, Wherein...
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A Year in Europe

Joseph Cross - Europe - 1859 - 536 pages
...inscription on the tablet to William Laurence, erected in 1621 : " Short-hand he wrote ; his flowere in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made." But thought and melody are immortal ; and while all that was perishable of the poet lies in the voiceless...
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The American pastor in Europe, ed. by J. Cumming

Joseph Cross (D.D.) - 1860 - 466 pages
...inscription on the tablet to William Laurence, erected in 1621 :— ' Short-hand he wrote ; his flowere in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made.' But thought and melody are immortal ; and while all that was perishable of the poet lies in the voiceless...
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Black's Guide to London and Its Environs

Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - London (England) - 1863 - 450 pages
...supposed the Holy Land ; — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Hairy die." The Dean's residence is on the left after passing..."nee eruditus, nee Idiota," the compiler of the first encyclopsedia in the English language. In the west arcade is a tablet to Dr. Buchan, the author of...
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Black's Guide to London and Its Environs

Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Greater London (England) - 1870 - 530 pages
...feature. As to the east arcade, it will be seen from the plan that it actually enters the church, hall' its length being enclosed in the south transept. As...various historical names, Pulteneys, Montagues, and Godolphins, usually inscribed with long pompous epitaphs. 94 CHAPTER HOUSE. — A rich doorway in the...
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An historical description of Westminster-abbey, its monuments and curiosities

Westminster abbey - 1872 - 156 pages
...again I — you seldom Jind A servant faithful, and a master kind. Short-hand lie wrote ; his (lower in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made. Well couth he numbers, and well-measured land ; Thus dotli he now that ground whereon you stand, Wherein...
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