The Environs of London: pt. 2. Kent, Essex, and Herts

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810
 

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Strana 215 - Queen, Transplanted now themselves, sleep here ; and when Angels shall with their trumpets waken men, And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise, And change this garden for a paradise.
Strana 68 - Majesty stroked above six hundred; and such was his princely patience and tenderness to the poor afflicted creatures, that, though it took up a very long time, his Majesty, who is never weary of well-doing, was pleased to make inquiry whether there were any more that had not yet been touched.
Strana 376 - ... a woman, was discovered to be a man ; and the wonder was the greater, as he had lived much among women, and had frequently been his landlady's bed-fellow, when an unexpected lodger came to the house.
Strana 266 - I have not much hope : and these meet with a fortune so ill-provided for physic, and such relief, that if God should ease us with burials, I know not how to perform even that : but I flatter myself with this hope, that I am dying too; for I cannot waste faster than by such griefs. As for, From my Hospital at Mitcham. Aug. 10. JOHN DONNE.
Strana 367 - Company, as a testimony of esteem for the humane and kind treatment afforded by his Father to the Crew of their Ship the Antelope, Captain Wilson, which was wrecked off that Island in the night of the 9th of August 1783. Stop, Reader, stop ! — let Nature claim a tear — A Prince of mine, Lee Boo, lies buried here.
Strana 352 - The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man, and sweet a poet, should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment ; for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792.
Strana 114 - VIII for his pleasure and retirement, and built by him with an excess of magnificence and elegance, even to ostentation: one would imagine every thing that architecture can perform to have been employed in this one work.
Strana 211 - Surrey for lord thou chase*. (Aye me ! whilst life did last that league was tender) Tracing whose steps thou sawest Kelsal blaze, Landrecy burnt, and battered Boulogne render. At Montreuil gates, hopeless of all recure, Thine Earl, half dead...
Strana 376 - Johnfon, who found him a fhrewd fenfible perfon, with a good memory, was very fond of converfing with him. His faculties indeed were fo little impaired by age, that a few days before he died, he had planned another ramble, in which his landlord's fon was to have accompanied him.
Strana 37 - Here lies HENRY ST. JOHN, : In the Reign of Queen Anne Secretary of War, Secretary of State, and Viscount Bolingbroke: In the Days of King George I. and King George II. Something more and better.

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