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Survey of London
… (see Plate 5). Plans of the Palace. There are three plans (or rather three versions of the same original survey) of … taken about the latter end of King Charles the II ds Reign or about 1680." It does not show the whole of the Palace, … use for dramatic performances. In the case of most of the plays presented at Whitehall there is no indication of the …
Survey of London
… 152930, Thomas Alvarde was appointed keeper of "our place or messuage called York Place." The Privy Purse Expenses show … Brightman mentioned above, consisting of the "Berehouse [or Brewhouse] buylded at Endiff." It obviously lay behind The … by d' Alencon himself, came over for the same purpose. Plays, masques, jousts and other entertainments of a princely …
Old and New London
… of Buckingham. The moment that we pass out of the Strand, or make our way from the Victoria Embankment into Charing … westwards through Spring Gardens into St. James's Park, or in a south-west direction past Whitehall towards the … length in Weldon's "Court of King James." All Christmas plays were performed before the Court by the "children of the …
Old and New London
… roof of the palace, in order that he might judge whether or not the elements were favourable to his enemies. Whitehall … Hingston: I went in, and found a private company of five or six persons; they desired me to take a viole and bear a … cunning. By-and-by, without the least colour of a design or expectation, in came Cromwell. He found us playing, and, …
Old and New London
… Street, is occupied either by Government buildings or by other edifices of public importance. First of all we … proud alcove The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love; Or just as gay at Council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and … fine days and in clear weather, to Portsmouth, and to one or two other stations, in an hour, or even in less time; and …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… in the Crimea and that ours have dwindled away down to 12 or 14000. 2. Went on with 'Volute' and altered 'Steel' and … Some professor of astronomy has prophesied either today or tomorrow there will be the heaviest fall of snow that … different persons that there would either be a great thaw or a good fall of snow on this day, but there was neither of …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… particulars. In forming depots in some of their ports, or they would be handy in case of storms. At all events … is obviously his duty to do such a thing, and he purposely or cowardly neglects doing so and by his conduct influences … similar occasion be suddenly and unaccountably nervous or frightened without having any malicious intentions or …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… equal. It stands for the present and future ages to admire or envy. The ornament under the grand entrance of the … unfortunately; one which took place at Rhyl (Wales) a day or two back, in which a lifeboat and all hands were lost, was … true that a Margate lugger foundered with all hands (12 or 13) trying to assist the same ship. Several of those in …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… out errands, stamped blocks etc. Oh, what a world it is. Or at least what a strange world of creatures we are. My … time. It is a book of birds and will probably have 150 or 200 cuts in it. This will keep us going briskly for some … think we are certain of yet further jobs amounting to 200 or 250 blocks. I sincerely rejoice, more for my father's sake …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Russia instead of the Western powers as before. Nothing or next to nothing has been done in Parliament because it is … the Russians under General Liprandi, to the number of 50 or 60,000, had attacked the allies on the lines of the … Sebastopol. They were totally repulsed, with the loss of 5 or 6000 men, killed and wounded, left on the field of battle. …