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Survey of London
… in oyle cont' divers naked figures in it bigger then the life, being xv en fo. square;" 85 (ii) "repairing an ould … spectators. 114 Since the time of Henry VIII the married life of the Kings of England had been without reproach, but … invented by his enemies only to torment him." (Cavendish's Life of Cardinal Wolsey, 1905 edn., p. 125); (ii.) …
Old and New London
… usher, George Cavendish, also thus writes, in his "Life and Death of Thomas Woolsey," a work reprinted in the … picture which it presents to his eyes of "the inner life of Whitehall" in the days of the eighth Henry. It was at … of the Chapel Royal;" and we read in Ben Jonson's Life that his Cynthia's Revels was put on this stage by those …
Old and New London
… Old Parish RegisterGeorge Monk at the Cock-pitFashionable Life under the StuartsCock-fightingDefoe's AccountIts … the Cock-pit." Here is a graphic description of Court life at Whitehall in the gay days of our Stuart kings:"Hyde … may not be out of place here. Fitzstephen, who wrote the life of Archbishop Becket, in the reign of Henry II., is the …
Old and New London
… account of its connection with the very last days of the life of King Charles I. In Wood's "Athen Oxoniensis," we find …
Old and New London
… of the weather. They were of terra-cotta, as large as life, or even a little larger, and represented some of the …
Old and New London
… red, Great Villiers lies. Alas! how changed for him, That life of pleasure and that soul of whim! Gallant and gay in … he did not die in actual want of the necessaries of life, yet he died in comparative poverty, having wasted his … at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in early life had spent two years in a classical tour round the coasts …
Magna Britannia
… to the priory of St. Bees, was purchased in his father's life-time by Sir Christopher Lowther, second son of Sir John …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… to the Illustrated News has at length died after a short life of 10 weeks. 4. Finished 'Screwdriver' and went to the … presented quite a novel appearance. He was escorted by the Life Guards and came in in an open carriage, in which were … time he was here, in order to prevent any attempt on his life. Splendid illuminations along the principal streets in …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… news. There has been a new peer created; but only for his life the peerage lasts. 24 This is an innovation, but why … been some sharp debates on the subject of the Wensleydale life peerage (for Baron Parke) in the Houses, especially the … a good many miles down the river, so that at the end of my life the water may be seen clear again. 26. Touched up map, …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… American ambassador here has sent 50 to the crews of the life boats at Broadstairs. There have been a very large … those in the lugger are of the same name as those in the life boat and are probably relations. It must, … with the rapidity of a whirlwind, he had to flee for his life, and only saved it by swimming across a creek. He (the …