London Scenes and London People: Anecdotes, Reminiscences, and Sketches of Places, Personages, Events, Customs, and Curiosities of London City, Past and PresentCollingridge, 1864 - 362 頁 |
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... ancient customs , descriptions of relics and memorabilia , and historical pictures touched with colours borrowed from incidents of the passing hour , as well as from memorials little known , and traditions all but forgotten . The genial ...
... ancient customs , descriptions of relics and memorabilia , and historical pictures touched with colours borrowed from incidents of the passing hour , as well as from memorials little known , and traditions all but forgotten . The genial ...
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... polishing his spectacles , painfully spelt through every letter of the inscription ; while the ancient soldiers , crowding round the massive granite coffin of the Duke , seemed to A VISIT TO THE TOMBS OF WELLINGTON AND NELSON.
... polishing his spectacles , painfully spelt through every letter of the inscription ; while the ancient soldiers , crowding round the massive granite coffin of the Duke , seemed to A VISIT TO THE TOMBS OF WELLINGTON AND NELSON.
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... ancient mariner blessed the water snakes because of their exceeding loveliness , so I was fain to bless the pigeons , and to wish myself half as happy . As it became broad day , my pigeons began to quit King- street , and , being ...
... ancient mariner blessed the water snakes because of their exceeding loveliness , so I was fain to bless the pigeons , and to wish myself half as happy . As it became broad day , my pigeons began to quit King- street , and , being ...
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... ancient chronicle con- tained the following sinister rhyme : - " When the Exchange grasshopper and dragon from Bow Shall meet - in London there shall be much woe . " When this improbable meeting occurred , certain eastern sages were ...
... ancient chronicle con- tained the following sinister rhyme : - " When the Exchange grasshopper and dragon from Bow Shall meet - in London there shall be much woe . " When this improbable meeting occurred , certain eastern sages were ...
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... - part and parcel of London town's constitutional glories - the sun of November fogs- the fossil focus of " the light of other days " ? 33 OLD MOORFIELDS . WHILE the ancient convent which once 32 HIS LORDSHIP'S STATE COACH .
... - part and parcel of London town's constitutional glories - the sun of November fogs- the fossil focus of " the light of other days " ? 33 OLD MOORFIELDS . WHILE the ancient convent which once 32 HIS LORDSHIP'S STATE COACH .
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ancient appeared beautiful become bell better building called carried centre century character church citizens City close common continued course Court dead death door doubt Exchange eyes face feel feet fire followed formed four gave give given glass gold ground hall hand head heard heart honour hope Hospital interest John King lady less light lived London look Lord lost lottery master Mayor means merchants morning never night noble notice offered once original passed perhaps persons poor possessed present prison probably Queen received remains remarkable rich Roman royal scarcely seemed side soon standing stone strange street taste things Thomas thought thousand took turn wall whole wine wonderful
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第 199 頁 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
第 200 頁 - ... they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty; though but downright fools, mere wise.
第 169 頁 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
第 204 頁 - Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote; One likes no language but the Faery Queen; A Scot will fight for Christ's Kirk o...
第 70 頁 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
第 109 頁 - I yield thee most hearty thanks that thou hast given me life thus long to finish this work to the glory of thy name!
第 167 頁 - The bill of fare (as you may well suppose) Was suited to those plentiful old times, Before our modern luxuries arose, With truffles and ragouts, and various crimes ; And therefore, from the original in prose I shall arrange the catalogue in rhymes : They served up salmon, venison, and wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores, ** Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard...
第 203 頁 - He the half of life abuses, That sits watering with the Muses. Those dull girls no good can mean us ; Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted : Ply it, and you all are mounted. 'Tis the true...
第 288 頁 - prentices, bakers, brewers, butchers, draymen, and what not; and all these fellows one with another cursing and betting. I soon had enough of it.
第 199 頁 - But that which most doth take my Muse and me Is a pure cup of rich canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine; Of which had Horace or Anacreon tasted, Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.