London and Its Environs: Including Excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, Etc. Handbook for Travellers

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K. Baedeker, 1883 - 367 páginas
 

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Página 130 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Página 207 - 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 331 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king...
Página 120 - Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and 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 in human destiny, with the savage triumph...
Página 130 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Página 186 - 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 91 - When you have sought the city round, Yet still this is the highest ground.
Página 123 - ... foreign and colonial products ; to these enormous vaults, with their apparently inexhaustible quantities of wine; and to these extensive quays and landingstages, cumbered with huge stacks of hides, heaps of bales, and long rows of casks of every conceivable description.
Página 66 - London more Scotchmen than in Edinburgh, more Irish than in Dublin, more Jews than in Palestine, and more Roman Catholics than in Rome. Statistics as to the consumption of food in this vast hive of human beings are not easily obtained ; but we may state approximately that there are annually consumed about 2,000,000 quarters of wheat, 400,000 oxen, 1,500,000 sheep, 130,000 calves, 250,000 swine, 8 million...
Página 85 - A Victim to the perilous and benevolent Attempt To ascertain the Cause of, and find an efficacious Remedy For the Plague.

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