Memoirs of celebrated EtoniansJ.C. Nimmo, 1901 |
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... Originally a Burial - ground - - Sir Walter de Manny Founds a Carthusian Monastery There - Dread- ful Punishments Inflicted on the Carthusians by Henry the Eighth Charter House Purchased by Duke of Norfolk I Given to Earl of Suffolk ...
... Originally a Burial - ground - - Sir Walter de Manny Founds a Carthusian Monastery There - Dread- ful Punishments Inflicted on the Carthusians by Henry the Eighth Charter House Purchased by Duke of Norfolk I Given to Earl of Suffolk ...
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... originally a chapel attached to the priory , but after the dissolution of the monasteries was converted into a parish church for the conven- ience of those who lived within the precincts of the hospital . At the time when Stow made his ...
... originally a chapel attached to the priory , but after the dissolution of the monasteries was converted into a parish church for the conven- ience of those who lived within the precincts of the hospital . At the time when Stow made his ...
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... the neighbouring priory ? The privilege of holding a fair at Smithfield during St. Bartholo- mew tide was originally granted to the priory by Henry the Second . It lasted for three days being 28 LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES .
... the neighbouring priory ? The privilege of holding a fair at Smithfield during St. Bartholo- mew tide was originally granted to the priory by Henry the Second . It lasted for three days being 28 LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES .
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John Heneage Jesse. CHAPTER II . THE CHARTER HOUSE . - - Charter House Originally a Burial - ground Sir Walter de Manny Founds a Carthusian Monastery There - Dreadful Punishments Inflicted on the Carthusians by Henry the Eighth Charter ...
John Heneage Jesse. CHAPTER II . THE CHARTER HOUSE . - - Charter House Originally a Burial - ground Sir Walter de Manny Founds a Carthusian Monastery There - Dreadful Punishments Inflicted on the Carthusians by Henry the Eighth Charter ...
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... originally established at Chartreux , in France , about the year 1080 , an order principally distinguished by its austerity and self - denial . Hence the modern word , Charter House , is corrupted . Over their single undergarment ...
... originally established at Chartreux , in France , about the year 1080 , an order principally distinguished by its austerity and self - denial . Hence the modern word , Charter House , is corrupted . Over their single undergarment ...
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afterward ancient Anthony Wood Bartholomew beautiful Ben Jonson Bishop Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Square Boswell Bow Church buried called celebrated century Chancery Lane chapel Charles the Second Charter House Cheapside church of St Churchyard Clerkenwell death derives its name Devil Tavern died Doctor Johnson Duke Earl edifice Edward the Third Ely House eminent England erected famous favourite Fetter Lane fire fire of London Fleet Prison Fleet Street garden gate George Gray's Inn Gray's Inn Lane hall Hatton Henry the Eighth Holborn interred James John John's king king's Lady lived London lord mayor Ludgate Ludgate Hill magnificent mansion Mary mentioned Montague monument neighbourhood Newgate night occasion Old Bailey Paul's Cathedral Paul's Cross period person poet present priory Queen Elizabeth reign of Edward reign of Henry reign of Queen residence Richard scene Sir Christopher Wren Sir Thomas south side spot Square stood Temple tion Tower Westminster wife William
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Seite 165 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 285 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Seite 105 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Seite 118 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 340 - That for their country would have toil'd, or bled. O great design ! if executed well, With patient care, and wisdom-temper'd zeal. Ye sons of mercy! yet resume the search; Drag forth the legal monsters into light, Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give.
Seite 303 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Seite 262 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! — How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula) to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of...
Seite 161 - That though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. The morning came, the chaise was brought, But yet was not allowed To drive up to the door, lest all Should say that she was proud.
Seite 262 - ... with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar— —while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy! — Many were the "wit-combats...
Seite 163 - And useless powers, by whom inspired, thyself Art skilful to associate verse with airs Harmonious, and to give the human voice A thousand modulations, heir by right Indisputable of Arion's fame. Now say, what wonder is it, if a son Of thine delight in verse, if, so conjoin'd In close affinity, we sympathize In social arts and kindred studies sweet ? Such distribution of himself to us Was Phoebus...