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… Chapels and royal tombs CHAPTER LIII. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.THE CHAPELS AND ROYAL TOMBS. "A feeling sad came o'er me as I trod the sacred ground Where Tudors and Plantagenets were lying … President of the Council. He was in his youth an excellent poet, and in his more advanced years a fine writer. His love …
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… House, cloister and Deanery CHAPTER LIV. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.THE CHAPTER HOUSE, CLOISTERS, DEANERY, &c. THE CHAPEL OF THE PYX. "There was the Chapter-house, wrought … It was not, however, as a scholar or a divine, but as a poet, that his name first became known. He is also the author …
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… ABBEY.ITS EARLY HISTORY. "And they shall then behold the scene around In wasted age, in antique beauty, faded; Our … PropositionThe Legend of St. Peter's Dedication of the First AbbeyThe Building burnt by the Danes and restored … of the first Roman castrum. We can only exclaim, with the poet "This is the age of new inventions." Froude says that …
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… we may that antique pile behold Where royal heads receive the sacred gold; It gives them crowns, and does their ashes … made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire, … where they rise they set." Waller. Coronation of William the ConquerorBad AuguriesCoronation of Richard I.Outrage …
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… Westminster Abbey The church building CHAPTER LI. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.A SURVEY OF THE BUILDING. "How reverend is the face of all this pile, … the DramatistMrs. OldfieldSecretary CraggsThe Poet WordsworthRobert StephensonSir Charles BarryGeorge …
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… Westminster Abbey The sanctuary and almonry CHAPTER LVII. THE SANCTUARY AND THE ALMONRY. "I pray you, let us satisfy … by Pope Alexander VI. in 1493. In the Sanctuary died the poet Skelton, tutor and poet Laureate to Henry VIII. He had …
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… Westminster School CHAPTER LV. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. "Dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are … Byron. Abbot Ingulph and Queen EdgithaA Monastic School in the "Dark Ages"The Beginning of Westminster SchoolHenry … And makes his pupils proud with silver pence, I was a poet too." Cowper. Noted Scholars and Eminent MastersCowper …
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… Westminster King St, Great George St and the Broad Sanctuary CHAPTER III. WESTMINSTER.KING STREET, GREAT GEORGE STREET, AND THE BROAD SANCTUARY. "Urbs antiqua fuit." Virg., "n.," i. … Earl of Dorset, the witty and accomplished courtier and poet, and the author of the famous song addressed to the gay …
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… HallJeremy BenthamMr. Towneley's RunionsThe "Three Johns"The Cock-pit in Birdcage WalkDistinguished Residents in Westminster in the Olden Times. Having in the preceding chapters dealt with … a year. Truly, therefore, may we add, in the words of the poet of old "Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic …
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… CHAPTER V. ST. JAMES'S PARK. "A spark That less admires the Palace than the Park." Pope. Storey's GateOrigin of "Birdcage Walk"The … in the park. The duke, addressing him, asked whether the poet's blindness was not to be regarded as a judgment from …