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Old and New London
… royal heads receive the sacred gold; It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep: There made like gods, like mortals … Abbey damaged by an EarthquakeCoronation of George III. and Queen CharlotteHumility of a KingThe Handel … round the Abbey. The troops took the confused noise for a cry of alarm raised by their friends, and as they had …
Old and New London
… pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof; By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And … of festal mirth, The tombswhich hear and answer that brief cry, The infant's notice of his second birth Recall the …
Old and New London
… of Westminster, the field Where mutual frauds are fought, and no side yield." Ben Jonson. Law Students residing in the … Trial of the "Seven Bishops"Lords Cromartie, Balmerino, and KilmarnockA Curious Attempt to blow up Westminster Hall. … his peers, there was in the Hall "the greatest shout and cry of joy that the like no man living may remember that ever …
Old and New London
… forget, though there we are forgot." Byron. Abbot Ingulph and Queen EdgithaA Monastic School in the "Dark Ages"The … Curll's Piracy of a School OrationThe Prince Regent and the Marquis of AngleseyThe College GardensThe … for Queen's ScholarsRivalry between Westminster and Eton Boys"Fagging." Under the wing of almost every abbey …
Old and New London
… 1700. "The pillar'd dome magnific heaves Its ample roof, and luxury within Pours out its glittering stores." Thomson. The Palaces of England and France comparedThe Mulberry GardenJohn Dryden's Fondness … Conduct of his WidowThe House purchased by George III., and called the "Queen's House"Northouck's Description of …
Old and New London
… 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. … distressed Roman Catholics, now unhorsed and uncharioted, cry out with the Psalmist, 'Some trust in chariots, and some …
Old and New London
… Westminster Tothill Fields and neighbourhood CHAPTER II. WESTMINSTER.TOTHILL FIELDS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. "No mead so fit For courtly joust or … written: "When the cock began to crow St. Peter began to cry." On the reverse: "The cock does not crow for nothing; …
Old and New London
… Strype's AccountMention of Whitechapel by Beaumont and Fletcher and DefoeSt. Mary MatfellonIts Great AntiquityOld Religious … Executioner of Charles I.Rosemary LanePetticoat Lane and the Old Clothes SalesA Lucky FindPoverty in …
Old and New London
… Sanquhar Murders the Fencing-MasterHis TrialBacon and YelvertonHis ExecutionSir Walter Scott's "Fortunes of … CourtPersecution of the First CongregationalistsGranaries and Coal Stores destroyed by the Great FireThe Flogging in … and shot him near the left breast. Turner had only time to cry, "Lord have mercy upon meI am killed," and fell from the …
Old and New London
… the Cardinal fell that title's lost; 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall." Shakespeare's Henry VIII., Act IV., … sc. 1. The most Polite Court in EuropeA School of Manners and MoralsHistorical Account of WhitehallAnciently called … at WhitehallThe Palace attacked by RiotersTilting-Matches and PageantsQueen Elizabeth's LibraryThe "Fortresse of …