London and Its Environs: Handbook for TravellersK. Baedeker, 1915 - 555 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
16th cent Abbey Appx Battersea Bethnal Green Bond St British bronze building bust Camden town centre Chapel Charing Cross Charles Chelsea church Circus City Club collection comp contains corner Court Duke Earl Edgware Road Edward entrance erected farther figures G. F. Watts Gallery Gardens Gate George Hall Hampstead Henry Henry VIII High St Hill Holborn Hospital Hotel House Islington James's John Kensington King King's Lady Lambeth Landscape Lane London Bridge Lord Ludgate Hill Madonna and Child marble Mary Metropolitan Railway monument Museum occupied Office Oxford St paintings Palace Pall Mall Paul's Piccadilly Portrait Queen Victoria Railway Regent St Regent's Park restaurant Road Pl Roman Room Royal School side South Square staircase Station Pl statue Strand street Thames THEATRE Pl Titian Tower Trafalgar Square Tramways viâ Virgin and Child wall Waterloo West Westminster Westminster Abbey Whitehall William window
Passagens conhecidas
Página 222 - 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 tomb-stone, 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...
Página 222 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, 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; 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.
Página 222 - It seems as if the awful nature of the place presses down upon the soul and hushes the beholder into noiseless reverence. We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled history with their deeds and the earth with their renown.
Página 60 - Companies, wealthier and more influential than the rest, are the Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths, Skinners, Merchant Taylors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers.
Página 235 - On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of architecture and the elaborate beauty of sculptured detail.
Página 244 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Página 148 - Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown ; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.
Página 235 - 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. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak, though with the grotesque decorations of Gothic architecture. On the pinnacles of the stalls are affixed the helmets and crests of the...
Página 170 - This picture I, Alessandro, painted at the end of the year 1500. in the (troubles) of Italy in the half-time after the time during the fulfilment of the eleventh of St.