A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs1907 - London (England) - 336 pages |
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Page 84
... passes beneath the Thames , its Embankment station being connected by subway with the District Railway . " " Turning in the direction of Westminster Bridge , we pass through pretty gardens decked with statues of William Tyndale , the ...
... passes beneath the Thames , its Embankment station being connected by subway with the District Railway . " " Turning in the direction of Westminster Bridge , we pass through pretty gardens decked with statues of William Tyndale , the ...
Page 91
... pass at once up a short flight of stairs , lined with weapons and curios , to the Banqueting Hall , a superb specimen of the Later Renaissance , 112 ft . long , 55 ft . wide , and 55 ft . high . The ceiling , painted on canvas by Rubens ...
... pass at once up a short flight of stairs , lined with weapons and curios , to the Banqueting Hall , a superb specimen of the Later Renaissance , 112 ft . long , 55 ft . wide , and 55 ft . high . The ceiling , painted on canvas by Rubens ...
Page 92
... pass Great Scotland Yard , the former headquarters of the Metropolitan Police . No. 6 , Craig's Court is the Royal Almonry , where the Maundy money , the King's Christmas doles , and other royal bounties are distributed . We have now ...
... pass Great Scotland Yard , the former headquarters of the Metropolitan Police . No. 6 , Craig's Court is the Royal Almonry , where the Maundy money , the King's Christmas doles , and other royal bounties are distributed . We have now ...
Page 94
... pass right up the stairs on entering ; others who have only a limited time and wish to make the most of it , will perhaps be most interested in the British Schools ( Rooms XVIII to XXII ) , for which pass up the stairs immediately to ...
... pass right up the stairs on entering ; others who have only a limited time and wish to make the most of it , will perhaps be most interested in the British Schools ( Rooms XVIII to XXII ) , for which pass up the stairs immediately to ...
Page 111
... pass into the Lobby - on occasions of political excite- ment often more interesting than the House itself -- and so past the boxes where the door - keepers sit , to- The House of Commons . After the magnificence of the Lords , the Lower ...
... pass into the Lobby - on occasions of political excite- ment often more interesting than the House itself -- and so past the boxes where the door - keepers sit , to- The House of Commons . After the magnificence of the Lords , the Lower ...
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Abbey acres adjoining Baker Street Baths Boarding British Broad Street building Cathedral Central Chapel Charing Cross Church Circus City comfort corner Court daily District double Duke east Edgware Road Electric Light Embankment entrance Euston Excellent Cuisine Facing Sea famous Fares Fleet Street Gallery Gardens Gate George Green Grosvenor Hall Hampstead Henry High Street Hill Holborn Hotel House Hyde Park James's Kensington King Ladies Lane Leicester Square London Bridge London County Council Lord Ludgate Hill miles Moderate monument Moorgate Street Museum occupied Office Oxford Street Palace Pall Mall Paul's Pension Piccadilly Piccadilly Circus places Plan I. C. portraits Prince principal Proprietor Proprietress Queen Victoria Railway Regent Street river Road Room ROUTE Royal Saturdays Service side South Square Station Steamers Strand Sundays table d'hôte Tariff Thames thoroughfares Tickets Tottenham Court Road Tower Trafalgar Square trains Tube viâ Victoria Street visitors Westminster Bridge
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Page 123 - 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 73 - 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 337 - CHLORODYNE effectually checks and arrests those too often fatal diseases : Diphtheria, Fever, Croup, Ague. CHLORODYNE acts like a charm in Diarrhoea, and is the only specific in Cholera and Dysentery CHLORODYNE effectually cuts short all attacks of Epilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation and Spasms.
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 270 - 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.
Page 335 - FRUIT SALT' is PECULIARLY ADAPTED for any CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS of the LIVER; it possesses the power of reparation when digestion has been disturbed or lost, and PLACES the INVALID on the RIGHT TRACK to HEALTH. A world of woes is avoided by those who keep and use ENO'S 'FRUIT SALT.
Page 168 - 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 114 - 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.
Page xxv - EC MOST CENTRAL FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE. Close to Aldersgate Street, Metropolitan Railway Station, and near St. Paul's Cathedral and General Post Office. Homely, Highly Kespec table, and Select ; Bed from Is.