The Visitor's Guide to the Sights of London: Including the National Exhibitions of Greenwich Hospital,Woolwich Arsenal,etc1844 |
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Admiral alto-relievo ancient animals Anne Annibale Caracci armour arms Artist bas-relief battle beautiful Bishop brass British building bust Captain Castle centre chapel Charles Charles II church Claude Lorraine coffin command contains Correggio Countess crown daughter death died Ditto Duke Earl east Edward Edward the Confessor effigy England entrance erected exhibition feet figure formed France French front gallery gardens Garter George gilt grand ground guns hall Hampton Court head Henry VIII Holbein honour inscription James King Kneller Knight Lady Landscape London Lord magnificent Majesty Major-General marble Mary medallion memory ment military monument Mummy Nephthys Nicholas Poussin officers ornamented Osiris painted palace pedestal placed Portrait present Prince Prince of Wales principal reign represented right hand Royal Royal Arsenal sarcophagus sculpture ship side specimens statue stone sword Thames THOMAS Tintoretto Titian tomb Tower various vases Victory visitor walls William Windsor Windsor Castle Woolwich Zucchero
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Page 188 - And they beckoned unto their partners which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
Page 188 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Page 188 - And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing ; nevertheless, at thy word I will let down the net.
Page 188 - And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple ; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Page 204 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 188 - Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Page 68 - Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Page 156 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows. There let the feasted eye unwearied stray; Luxurious, there, rove through the pendent woods That nodding hang o'er Harrington's retreat...
Page 104 - August, one thousand four hundred and twenty-two, in only the thirty-fourth year of his age and the tenth of his reign, King Henry the Fifth passed away. Slowly and mournfully they carried his embalmed...
Page 117 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.