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Old and New London
… king replied, thoughtlessly, "Doth the man live?" and no more was said. This remark, however, awoke the viper of … and Cheapside taverns. The Scot could not have come to a more dangerous place than London. Some, with malicious pity, … the brooding revenge, now grown to a monomania, once more burst into a flame. At last he hired Carlisle and Gray, …
Survey of London
… could for the Residence of the Court; Which yet makes it a more Commodious Habitation than the Louvre, for it contains … was taken in hand. 9 The gatehouse, as thus altered, was more lofty, with a conical roof, and was entered by a door … 16), the details of the two flanking passages 10 being more clearly seen in Persoy's engraving of the Funeral of …
Survey of London
… 17. Needless to say, this must not be taken to be anything more than a rough approximation. Two important factors are … Lane it sloped so as to reduce the width of the road to a more normal amount. There is no reason to believe that the … House was provided (see p. 116) for the festivities. A more splendid Banquenting House was erected in 1581, when …
Old and New London
… by Smith of a Rare Print by Israd Silvestre.) "You must no more call it York Placethat is past: For since the Cardinal … at Westminster, is holy ground, having been the scene of more important events in English history than all which have … expression, or to put on a page's dress for a frolic, was more likely to be followed and admired, more likely to be …
Old and New London
… been carefully embalmed, and was afterwards buried with more than regal honours in Henry VII.'s Chapel in Westminster … Purse was small, and Lord Churchill's means were moderate. More frequently, however, the two friends sat in the … at Whitehall was erected by a crowned head, for the more magnificent celebration of the sport. It was prohibited, …
Old and New London
… afterwards the Duke of Richmond's, of which we shall have more to say presently. Down to a comparatively recent date, … by reading out a fable. It is to be hoped that he was more merciful to West-end society here. The mansion known as … the artists of a century ago would have been so much the more poorly off. It would be well indeed for art, and indeed …
Old and New London
… to the king by the instrumentality of Sir Thomas More, at his house at Chelsea, where a number of the … probability seems to be that there was not, and it is far more likely that it did not at that time exceed the breadth … which was intended as a part, and a very small one, of a more magnificent conception. The palace was to have consisted …
Old and New London
… of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valued more, There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And … laid quietly on the shelf, being superseded by a far more ingenious and subtle mechanism, the result of the … The vestibule is a small circular hall, possessing nothing more remarkable than the boundary-line of the parishes of St. …
Magna Britannia
… in 1708 and 1711; another act, for making the former more effectual and repairing the roads leading to the town, … this place, and the coalworks, have already been spoken of more at large. There are six ship-builders' yards at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the upper part of the tower, which, though of more modern date, had become dangerous, rebuilt. A Roman …