Leicester square; its associations and its worthies. With a sketch of Hunter's scientific character and works, by R. Owen1874 - 495 páginas |
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... hospital , and the cluster of houses inhabited by its dependents to the number of not more than one hundred souls ... Hospital and village , and thence to the northern wilds . From the Hospital the road to Uxbridge ran along the line of ...
... hospital , and the cluster of houses inhabited by its dependents to the number of not more than one hundred souls ... Hospital and village , and thence to the northern wilds . From the Hospital the road to Uxbridge ran along the line of ...
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... Hospital of St. Giles retained its property in the marsh lands between it and Charing , Lammas rights were no doubt re- stricted ; at least , over the enclosed lands . These were of considerable extent , though the hospital itself had ...
... Hospital of St. Giles retained its property in the marsh lands between it and Charing , Lammas rights were no doubt re- stricted ; at least , over the enclosed lands . These were of considerable extent , though the hospital itself had ...
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... Hospital of Burton St. Lazar in Leicester- shire , the master and brethren of which were invested with the custody of the Hospital of St. Giles . The brethren of St. Giles resisted , holding the hospital by force and arms against their ...
... Hospital of Burton St. Lazar in Leicester- shire , the master and brethren of which were invested with the custody of the Hospital of St. Giles . The brethren of St. Giles resisted , holding the hospital by force and arms against their ...
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... hospital precincts , gardens and orchard , was not demolished till 1639 , shortly before which time Leicester House must have been built . 1 The Lammas rights over these hospital lands were early matter of contest . In Stowe , we have ...
... hospital precincts , gardens and orchard , was not demolished till 1639 , shortly before which time Leicester House must have been built . 1 The Lammas rights over these hospital lands were early matter of contest . In Stowe , we have ...
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Tom Taylor. determined by the Earl's ownership of the lands of St. Giles's Hospital , derived through the grant of Henry VIII . to his ancestor John Dudley , Viscount Lisle . He had other associations with the neighbourhood , having been ...
Tom Taylor. determined by the Earl's ownership of the lands of St. Giles's Hospital , derived through the grant of Henry VIII . to his ancestor John Dudley , Viscount Lisle . He had other associations with the neighbourhood , having been ...
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Página 213 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 234 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat; all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for fox-hunters, and bear abundance of ruddycomplexioned children.
Página 27 - In 1616 he was made a knight of the bath at the creation of Charles prince of Wales. In...
Página 24 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 284 - But though it gave somewhat more scope for the fancy, it was still but a less kind of drudgery; and as I could not bring myself to act like some of my brethren, and make it a sort of manufactory to be carried on by the help of backgrounds and drapery painters, it was not sufficiently profitable to pay the expenses my family required.
Página 200 - His carriage then was very meek, sedate, and humble, never seemingly angry, of profound thought, his countenance mild, pleasant, and comely.
Página 286 - I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show.
Página 235 - As soon as they can wipe off the sweat of the day, they must simper an hour and catch cold in the Princess's apartment ; from thence (as Shakspeare has it) to dinner, with what appetite they may ; and after that, till midnight, work, walk, or think, which they please.
Página 181 - He has a most unaffected modesty, and does scarcely bear the acknowledgments that all the world pay him : he descends to an easy equality with those with whom he converses ; and seems to assume nothing to himself, while he reasons with others...
Página 319 - Are aptly join'd; where parts on parts depend, Each made for each, as bodies for their soul, So as to form one true and perfect whole; Where a plain story to the eye is told, Which we conceive the moment we behold, — Hogarth unrivall'd stands, and shall engage Unrivall'd praise to the most distant age.