The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events : St. Paul's to St. James'sUnit Library, 1903 - 626 pages |
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... night , thus answered : - " Brute , sub occasum solis : " " Brutus , far to the west , in th ' ocean wide , Beyond the realm of Gaul , a land there lies , Sea - girt it lies , where giants dwelt of old : Now void , it fits thy people ...
... night , thus answered : - " Brute , sub occasum solis : " " Brutus , far to the west , in th ' ocean wide , Beyond the realm of Gaul , a land there lies , Sea - girt it lies , where giants dwelt of old : Now void , it fits thy people ...
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... night . The illumination was with lanterns , slung over the street with wisps of rope or hay . Under Edward the Fourth we first hear of brick houses ; and in Henry the Eighth's time of pavement in the middle of the streets . The general ...
... night . The illumination was with lanterns , slung over the street with wisps of rope or hay . Under Edward the Fourth we first hear of brick houses ; and in Henry the Eighth's time of pavement in the middle of the streets . The general ...
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... night murder , ' perpetrated in 1514 , on a respectable citizen , named Richard Hunne , by Dr Horsey , chancellor of the diocese , with the assistance of a bell - ringer , and afterwards defended by the Bishop of Fitz - James and the ...
... night murder , ' perpetrated in 1514 , on a respectable citizen , named Richard Hunne , by Dr Horsey , chancellor of the diocese , with the assistance of a bell - ringer , and afterwards defended by the Bishop of Fitz - James and the ...
Page 74
... night ; his eye- lids droop : and his whole face is used with rakery . It is impossible to see Prior and Steele together , with- out regretting that they quarrelled : but as they did quarrel , it was fit that Prior should be in the ...
... night ; his eye- lids droop : and his whole face is used with rakery . It is impossible to see Prior and Steele together , with- out regretting that they quarrelled : but as they did quarrel , it was fit that Prior should be in the ...
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... night having been passed , agitante deo , under the fever of inspiration . From Stationers ' Hall once issued all the almanacks that were published , with all the trash and superstition they kept alive . Francis Moore is still among ...
... night having been passed , agitante deo , under the fever of inspiration . From Stationers ' Hall once issued all the almanacks that were published , with all the trash and superstition they kept alive . Francis Moore is still among ...
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