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A History of the County of Sussex
… Maud, wife of Nicholas de Opton, 9 also called Nicholas de Eye. 10 John had inherited only of the manor, as was held in …
Old and New London
… Low on his funeral couch he lies; No pitying heart nor eye afford A tear to grace his obsequies. Is the sable … portrait and the imagethe dark brow, the soft, melancholy eye, the disproportionately-long, straight nose, and the …
Old and New London
… by signal. Mr. Rush, the American Minister, who was an eye-witness of the coronation, thus describes the scene at …
Old and New London
… at the sublimity of the scene presented to the eye. The nave and choir are separated from the side-aisles by …
Old and New London
… friends, "the most beautiful and amiable person that the eye ever beheld." Be this, however, an exaggeration or not, …
Old and New London
… There was also this night in King Streete a woman had her eye put out by a boy's flinging a firebrand into the coach. …
Old and New London
… new general court dress is decidedly more pleasant to the eye than the old style, which, though still represented, is … in a certain sense of the term, but decidedly ugly to the eye of taste. The new dress is a little formal in cut; but …
Old and New London
… Gwyn had what Lord Chatham calls 'the prophetic eye of taste.'" Victoria Street is upwards of a thousand … of art, and is so placed that it scarcely strikes the eye of the passer-by. In fact, very few persons know of its …