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... height , there stood 15 towers 40 feet high . It is conjectured that the prætorium and its adjuncts were on the site of the Poultry and Cornhill , and LONDON STONE , now in Cannon Street , is supposed to have been the central stone or ...
... height , there stood 15 towers 40 feet high . It is conjectured that the prætorium and its adjuncts were on the site of the Poultry and Cornhill , and LONDON STONE , now in Cannon Street , is supposed to have been the central stone or ...
Page 14
... height of 85 feet above the mid - tide level of the Thames . Iron pipes conduct the water thence to the houses of the lower dis- trict ; that for the high services being derived from another reservoir close by in Claremont Square , 30 ...
... height of 85 feet above the mid - tide level of the Thames . Iron pipes conduct the water thence to the houses of the lower dis- trict ; that for the high services being derived from another reservoir close by in Claremont Square , 30 ...
Page 16
... height inter- nally , and 12 feet wide . There are to be reservoirs at the out- lets , and at certain points pumping engines and machinery for lifting the sewage of the low lying districts . The 16 NEW DRAINAGE SCHEME .
... height inter- nally , and 12 feet wide . There are to be reservoirs at the out- lets , and at certain points pumping engines and machinery for lifting the sewage of the low lying districts . The 16 NEW DRAINAGE SCHEME .
Page 51
... height is 92 feet . There are turrets at the angles . The north - eastern is circular , and was used by the king's astrono- mer as an observatory before the building at Greenwich was erected , contains within it a stair - case ...
... height is 92 feet . There are turrets at the angles . The north - eastern is circular , and was used by the king's astrono- mer as an observatory before the building at Greenwich was erected , contains within it a stair - case ...
Page 58
... height of 300 feet . The grandest feature of all is the Victoria Tower at the south - west angle , 80 feet square and 340 feet high . The Sovereign's entrance is here , with a grand and richly - decorated archway 65 feet high . Inside ...
... height of 300 feet . The grandest feature of all is the Victoria Tower at the south - west angle , 80 feet square and 340 feet high . The Sovereign's entrance is here , with a grand and richly - decorated archway 65 feet high . Inside ...
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Page 178 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 76 - 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 76 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of* some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 80 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
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Page 89 - Shorthand he wrote, his flower 'in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made.
Page 76 - 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 tombstone, 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 243 - I have been many a time in the chambers in the Temple which were his, and passed up the staircase, which Johnson, and Burke, and Reynolds trod to see their friend, their poet, their kind Goldsmith, — the stair on which the poor women sat weeping bitterly when they heard that the greatest and most generous of all men was dead within the black oak door.
Page 83 - there have not been a more fantastic couple than his Grace and his faithful Duchess, who was never off her pillion.
Page 349 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.