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Old and New London
… Knowles, a clever Quaker lady, who for once overcame the giant of Bolt Court in argument. Before dinner Johnson took …
Survey of London
… mezzanine-storey windows, forms a substantial base for a giant order of Ionic columns, rising through three storeys … most exuberantly Baroque gables. This feature begins with giant inverted consoles flanking the plain pilasters, which …
Magna Britannia
… traces of an ancient fortress, on a promontory called the Giant's-Castle, are supposed to be of remote origin. On the …
Old and New London
… therefore, he quitted Manchester for the metropolis. With giant strides he progressed in his prosperity. The confused …
Old and New London
… 1851 to 1855, was kept by Mr. Robert Hales, the "Norfolk Giant." He was born in 1820, near Yarmouth, where his father …
Old and New London
… altitude"it is now only ten feet high, no higher than a giant lord chancellor. Then it was fenced with palisadesnow …
Survey of London
… the auditorium sides. Each is divided into four bays by a giant order of Corinthian plain-shafted pilasters, supporting … boxes on either side of the stage are flanked by giant Corinthian pilasters, canted away from the proscenium, … absence of a deep forestage, the resemblance between the giant Corinthian order of the Ariadne frontispiece and that …
Old and New London
… with its figures, and to erect a painted image of the giant St. Christopher carrying Jesus. There were also to be …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely