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Old and New London
… last, in despair of such a result, set sail for England, still brooding over revenge against the author of his cruel … beat it as a dog beats a covert. The next day, therefore, still on his trail, Lord Sanquhar went after him to London, … this distemper kill; And had the savage authors gone on still, Fustian had been a new disease i' the bill." The moral …
Survey of London
… above) and in Morden and Lea's Map of 1682 (p. 76), and a still better representation of them in 1683 in the … to be a similar relative position at St. James's Palace is still called the Guard Room. 129 ( b) In the Parliamentary … Her husband died very shortly after, so that she was still a child when she appeared at Court in her widow's …
Survey of London
… if it is correct, the western part of this property is still about 55 feet from the later line of King Street. At … if indeed it was finished, and the wine cellar close by still persists. The exact extent of York Place, as Wolsey … though the references quoted below suggest that it was still open ground. It had been resumed by Henry VIII on the …
Old and New London
… of pedantry. Of the too celebrated women whose faces we still admire on the walls of Hampton Court few indeed were in … with new and sweet perfumed cloths, every man sitting still until the King and his maskers came in among them … the cloth of estate, commanding no man to remove, but sit still as they did before. Then in came a new banquet before …
Old and New London
… He is reported to have caused the weather-vane, which still remains, to be erected on the roof of the palace, in …
Old and New London
… previously, on Constitution Hill. In this house, which is still occupied by the Peel family, there is a fine gallery of …
Old and New London
… other buildings, many of which are wholly, or in part, still (1807) remaining." This building, it appears, the king … "History of London" (1739), speaks of Holbein's gateway as still standing. He calls it "the present stately gate, … that after the accession of William III. the statue was still left standing." Possibly, however, this fact, so unlike …
Old and New London
… together with those of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, still located in Downing Street, in plainer buildings (partly … Spencer Perceval, George Canning, and Lord Liverpool are still standing at the farther end, yet most of these have …
Magna Britannia
… except Newcastle and York, has no parochial rights, but is still considered as one of the townships of St. Bees. Plan of … long after that family became extinct. Whitehaven still continues to thrive and prosper under the auspices of … lands as had belonged to the monastery of St. Bees, and still continued in the Crown; and in 1678 a further grant of …
Survey of London
… by the raids. Opposite the end of Scala Street there still stands the Literary and Scientific Institution which is … seeing 'General' Tom Thumb arriving in his carriage. Later still it was the Albert Rooms Dancing Academy. It is now used …