The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsOxford University Press, 1907 - 527 pages |
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Page 222
... famous places , while a person read accounts of them from a desk . We remember the Aegyptiana , or description of Aegypt , and , if we mistake not , an attempt , not quite so well founded , to illustrate the scenes of Milton's Allegro ...
... famous places , while a person read accounts of them from a desk . We remember the Aegyptiana , or description of Aegypt , and , if we mistake not , an attempt , not quite so well founded , to illustrate the scenes of Milton's Allegro ...
Page 264
... famous Lord Herbert of Cherbury died there . Lord Bristol had a house in it , Lord Chancellor Finch , and the Conway and Paulet families . Some of the houses towards the west retain pilasters and other ornaments , probably indicating ...
... famous Lord Herbert of Cherbury died there . Lord Bristol had a house in it , Lord Chancellor Finch , and the Conway and Paulet families . Some of the houses towards the west retain pilasters and other ornaments , probably indicating ...
Page 367
... famous case of Sir John Coventry , who was waylaid and had his nose slit by some young men of rank , for a reflection upon the King's theatrical amours . This occasioned the famous statute against maiming and wounding , called the ...
... famous case of Sir John Coventry , who was waylaid and had his nose slit by some young men of rank , for a reflection upon the King's theatrical amours . This occasioned the famous statute against maiming and wounding , called the ...
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