A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs1907 - London (England) - 336 pages |
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Page 125 - The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour 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 and airy security of a cobweb.
Page 75 - Saxons, who are divided from Kent by the river Thames, and border on the Eastern sea. Their metropolis is the city of London, which is situated on the bank of the aforesaid river, and is the mart of many nations resorting to it by sea and land.
Page xiv - As a Wedding Gift, Birthday Book, or Presentation Volume at any period of the year, or upon any anniversary whatever, Mrs. Beeton's "Household Management" is entitled to the very first place.
Page ix - I HAVE seen the greatest wonder which the world can show to the astonished spirit, I have seen it and am still astonished — and still there remains fixed in my memory the stone forest of houses, and amid them the rushing stream of faces of living men with all their motley passions, all their terrible impulses of love, of hunger and of hatred — I mean London.
Page 272 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
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Page 170 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? He finds us all brick, and he leaves us all plaster.
Page 116 - THE new world honors him whose lofty plea For England's freedom made her own more sure, Whose song, immortal as its theme, shall be Their common freehold while both worlds endure.
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| Title | A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs Illustrated guide books, Lock and Company Ward (ltd) |
| Edition | 28 |
| Published | 1907 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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