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Old and New London
… better appreciated when seen from the high ground in the Green Park. For a nearer and more minute survey, the west … of Richard II., sitting in a gilt chair, dressed in a green vest flowered with gold; with gold shoes ornamented … on the left side is the Lady of the Floure, dressed in green. In the tracery above the portrait of Chaucer occupies …
Old and New London
… trumpets, pipes, and fiddles, bearing ribbons of white and green, and crying out "For God and King Charles!" and … paces from it, and a step lower, on benches covered with green cloth, with which the whole Court was likewise covered. …
Old and New London
… Westminster School into the country for the sake of "green fields and pastures new," and that other proposals have … such subjects as divorces, duels, balloons, dress, Gretna Green unions, the Marriage Act passed in the year 1753, quack … for eight centuries, and refused to exchange it for "green fields and pastures new." The result is, as might have …
Old and New London
… of CambridgeThe Queen and Charles DickensThe Board of Green ClothOfficers of the Queen's HouseholdHer Majesty's … by the Grand Staircase through an ante-room and the Green Drawing-room, to the Throne-room. The Sculpture Gallery … of the central portion of the front of the edifice. The Green Drawing-room, which opens upon the upper storey of the …
Old and New London
… and St. James's Park and Palace; then along the Green Park, Piccadilly, Hyde Park, and Tyburn, and so to …
Old and New London
… occupied by the Protector was at the northern end, near Downing Street, and it was not demolished, says Mr. Jesse, … a man." "No, my lord," replied his companion, "nor so green." On the western side of the Broad Sanctuary, and on …
Old and New London
… early part of the present century, boasted of its village green, upon which the Maypole was annually set up; and there … by voluntary contributions; and in 1709, a Mr. William Green built a school and masters' house in Little Chapel … grounds, including parts of Allington Street, Brewers' Green, St. Peter's Street, the Horseferry Road, and Orchard …