Cruchley's Picture of London, Comprising the History, Rise, and Progress of the Metropolis to the Present TimeG. F. Cruchley, 1851 - 324 oldal |
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acres Admission alto-relievo ancient Apollonicon armour beautiful Bishop bridge building built bust celebrated centre Chantrey Chapel Charles Charles II church City columns commemorating consists contains Court daughter deceased decorated Duke Earl east edifice Edward Edward the Confessor effigy Elizabeth England entrance erected Exhibition feet high figure front gallery Gardens George George III George IV grand hall handsome Henry VIII HOSPITAL House inches India Institution interior Ionic order James King Lady London London Bridge magnificent Maps marble memory metropolis miles monument Museum Nicholas Poussin o'clock occupied offices ornamented painted Palace Pall-mall park Paul's pedestal pediment placed portico Portland stone Portrait present Prince principal prison Queen Regent-street reign represented river Royal shilling sixpence Society Somerset House south side splendid square staircase statue stone Strand stranger street surmounted tablet Thames theatre Thomas tickets tomb Tower visitor Westminster Westminster Abbey William window
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211. oldal - Paul's, should be rebuilt from their foundations with all magnificence ; that bridges, gates, and prisons should be made new ; the sewers cleansed ; the streets made straight and regular ; such as were steep, levelled, and those too narrow, made wider ; markets and shambles removed to separate places. They also enacted, that every house should be built with...
131. oldal - Near this place lies Abraham Cowley, " the Pindar, Horace, and Virgil of England ; and the delight, " ornament, and admiration of his age...
36. oldal - RA, inscribed by the women of England, to Arthur Duke of Wellington, and his brave companions in arms, erected June 18, 1822.
95. oldal - Dinham, and is supposed to have been the mother of Sir Nicholas Carew, beheaded in the time of Henry VIII. 9. Lady Burleigh and her daughter, (d. 1589—1588). This magnificent monument was raised by the great Lord Burleigh to the memory of Mildred his wife, and their daughter Ann, married to Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford. Beneath a carved arch, surrounded by columns and obelisks, lie the statues of the deceased. The kneeling figure of Lady Burleigh's son, Sir Robert Cecil, is at the feet, and her...
88. oldal - 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. 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...
217. oldal - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
117. oldal - Edward Herbert, (d. 1715), A tablet, commemorating the lineal descendants of Sir George Herbert, of Swansea, in Glamorganshire, first Sheriff of that county, after the union of the Principality of Wales, in 1542. 7. Morgan and Mansell, (d. 1683—4). Two oval tablets between three wreathed columns ; one, to the memory of William Morgan, of Tredegar, Monmouthshire ; the other, to Thomas Mansell, of Britten's Ferry, Glamorganshire. Jane Hill, (d. 1631).
211. oldal - ... beyond the space of seven years. Moreover, care was taken by law to prevent all suits about their bounds. Also, anniversary prayers were enjoined ;* and to perpetuate the memory hereof to posterity, they caused this column to be erected. The work was carried on with diligence, and London is restored ; but whether with greater speed or beauty may be made a question. Three years' time saw that finished which was supposed to be the business of an age.
210. oldal - It consumed eighty-nine churches, the City gates, Guildhall, many public structures, hospitals, schools, libraries, a vast number of stately edifices, thirteen thousand two hundred dwelling-houses, four hundred streets.
133. oldal - It was made by order of the magistrates of Dort, in Holland, and designed by them as a present to Henry VII. but that monarch dying before it was finished, it was set up in Waltham Abbey, where it remained till the dissolution of that monastery, when it was removed to New-Hall, in Essex, then in possession of General Monk, and by him preserved during the civil wars. Some years ago, John...