In the Days of Victoria: Some Memories of Men and ThingsJohn Lane, 1918 - Всего страниц: 367 |
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... town - life , I should certainly overtax the patience both of my readers and my publisher . My reminiscences will be mainly limited to those com- paratively far - off times embraced by the early and middle period of the great Queen's ...
... town - life , I should certainly overtax the patience both of my readers and my publisher . My reminiscences will be mainly limited to those com- paratively far - off times embraced by the early and middle period of the great Queen's ...
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... Town Hall , were opposite the City Police Station and were in full view of the City Church , whither the Mayor and Corporation went in state twice every Sunday and on some other appointed days , whilst we overlooked Carfax , BIRTH AND ...
... Town Hall , were opposite the City Police Station and were in full view of the City Church , whither the Mayor and Corporation went in state twice every Sunday and on some other appointed days , whilst we overlooked Carfax , BIRTH AND ...
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... town together , and , in such a case , they were accorded a resting - place for the night , and were then hurried on to the next town . Looking out of the window one evening , I beheld a link in this migratory chain illustrated by the ...
... town together , and , in such a case , they were accorded a resting - place for the night , and were then hurried on to the next town . Looking out of the window one evening , I beheld a link in this migratory chain illustrated by the ...
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... town , though I saw very little of the latter , as the Great Exhibition of 1851 was the objective and the time was limited to a day . As I was born in 1844 , I was then seven years of age , and , after all this lapse of time , my ...
... town , though I saw very little of the latter , as the Great Exhibition of 1851 was the objective and the time was limited to a day . As I was born in 1844 , I was then seven years of age , and , after all this lapse of time , my ...
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... town . Going over the bridge across the Serpentine , the great Exhibition was before me , and I saw it as Thackeray so well described it : " A blazing arch of lucid glass Leaps like a fountain from the grass To meet the sun . A Palace ...
... town . Going over the bridge across the Serpentine , the great Exhibition was before me , and I saw it as Thackeray so well described it : " A blazing arch of lucid glass Leaps like a fountain from the grass To meet the sun . A Palace ...
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In the Days of Victoria: Some Memories of Men and Things Thomas Forder Plowman Просмотр фрагмента - 1918 |
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afterwards ancient Anthony à Wood appeared arrived attractive band Bodleian Bodleian Library brought called Camera candidate Cardwell Carfax chair Charles Reade cheers Church colour Committee Crimean War crowd custom decorated delight desire election electors Esthetes Exhibition experience father feelings followed freeman gallery gave going the franchise hand heard honour impressed interest knew knowledge Koh-i-noor Library London look Lord Monck Magdalen Bridge Magdalen College matter Mayor memory ment mind never night occasion once Oscar Wilde Oxford Parliamentary particular party persons play political poll Port Meadow Pre-Raphaelite present privilege Queen readers recollections regarded remember represented respect round sacred cargo scene seat Sheldonian Theatre side soon spirit stage streets sufficiently Thackeray Theatre things thought tion told took Town Hall University Vice-Chancellor Victorian era whilst
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Стр. 136 - For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture.
Стр. 141 - O monstrous ! but one half-penny worth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack ! — What there is else, keep close ; we'll read it at more advantage : there let him sleep till day.
Стр. 126 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.
Стр. 46 - This morning come up to my wife's bedside, I being up dressing myself, little Will Mercer to be her Valentine; and brought her name writ upon blue paper in gold letters, done by himself, very pretty; and we were both well pleased with it. But I am also this year my wife's Valentine, and it will cost me £5; but that I must have laid out if we had not been Valentines.
Стр. 119 - Pre-Raphaelitism has but one principle, that of absolute, uncompromising truth in all that it does, obtained by working everything, down to the most minute detail, from nature, and from nature only.* Every Pre-Raphaelite landscape background is painted to the last touch, in the open air, from the thing itself. Every Pre-Raphaelite figure, however studied in expression, is a true portrait of some living person.
Стр. 43 - And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head, as I understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land, Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland Let us servire cantico.
Стр. 47 - The choral Ministers of this House do, according to an ancient custom, salute Flora every year on the first of May at four in the morning with vocal music of several parts. Which having been sometimes well performed hath given great content to the neighbourhood and auditors underneath.
Стр. 132 - And great bards and small bards were full of alarms ; Till Tennyson, flaming and red as a gipsy, Struck his fist on the table and uttered a shout : 'To the door with the boy ! Call a cab ! He is tipsy ! ' And they carried the naughty young gentleman out.
Стр. 136 - I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Стр. 43 - The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino.