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... palaces , Large streets , brave houses , sacred sepulchres , Sure gates , sweet gardens , stately galleries , Wrought with fair pillars and fine imageries . " SPENSER . Communion , sought with enlarged generous sentiments and love of.
... palaces , Large streets , brave houses , sacred sepulchres , Sure gates , sweet gardens , stately galleries , Wrought with fair pillars and fine imageries . " SPENSER . Communion , sought with enlarged generous sentiments and love of.
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... Gardens - Horse- Guards - Ancient Gates - Dover House - Government Offices - St . James's Park . . 26 CHAPTER III . Downing - street , Fludyer - street , Crown - street , Gardener's - lane , King- street , Queen - square , Canon - row ...
... Gardens - Horse- Guards - Ancient Gates - Dover House - Government Offices - St . James's Park . . 26 CHAPTER III . Downing - street , Fludyer - street , Crown - street , Gardener's - lane , King- street , Queen - square , Canon - row ...
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... gardens of state and pleasure near great cities , treasuries of jewels and robes , cabinets and rarities ; and , to conclude , whatso- ever is memorable in the place . As for triumphs , feasts , weddings , funerals , capital executions ...
... gardens of state and pleasure near great cities , treasuries of jewels and robes , cabinets and rarities ; and , to conclude , whatso- ever is memorable in the place . As for triumphs , feasts , weddings , funerals , capital executions ...
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... Garden in College - street , and so fell again into the main stream . This island comprised the precinct of the Abbey and Palace , which were further defended by lofty stone walls ; those on the east and south of the College gardens ...
... Garden in College - street , and so fell again into the main stream . This island comprised the precinct of the Abbey and Palace , which were further defended by lofty stone walls ; those on the east and south of the College gardens ...
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... gardens . Meadow for xj ploughs . Pasture for the cattle of the village . Pannage [ the run and feeding usually in woods ] for c hogs ; and xxv houses of the knights of the Abbat and of other vassals , who pay viijs . a year . The whole ...
... gardens . Meadow for xj ploughs . Pasture for the cattle of the village . Pannage [ the run and feeding usually in woods ] for c hogs ; and xxv houses of the knights of the Abbat and of other vassals , who pay viijs . a year . The whole ...
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Page 157 - Purification in the Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Page 273 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 26 - ... the Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches, and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops priests, and deacons.
Page 272 - Enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Page 337 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 53 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 219 - Here out of the window it was a most pleasant sight to see the City from one end to the other with a glory about it, so high was the light of the bonfires, and so thick round the City, and the bells rang everywhere.
Page 157 - Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint.
Page 191 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 18 - He hopes that the present volumes will supply this deficiency, and furnish for the use of the learner an abstract of events necessarily short and imperfect, but sound and true as far as it goes, and of such a character as not to array all his early impressions against the truth of history, important, if ever, when it touches the evidences of CHRIST'S Presence with His Church, in the land of all our immediate natural, civil, ecclesiastical, and spiritual relations."— Preface.