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... building ; and the present governor is Arthur , duke of Wellington . There is a misshapen irregularity , a strange mingling of ancient and modern times ; an ano- malous jumbling together of things wont to be kept separate , about the ...
... building ; and the present governor is Arthur , duke of Wellington . There is a misshapen irregularity , a strange mingling of ancient and modern times ; an ano- malous jumbling together of things wont to be kept separate , about the ...
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... build up the princely pile , long since dissolved , and people it with the Edwards , and Henries , and Richards of old . There is the painted hall , and in it are assembled a goodly throng of joyous guests . The royal captive , John ...
... build up the princely pile , long since dissolved , and people it with the Edwards , and Henries , and Richards of old . There is the painted hall , and in it are assembled a goodly throng of joyous guests . The royal captive , John ...
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... building in London , is a fit edifice to be visited by a perambulator . It is , perhaps , the grandest church in the ... buildings that surround it . St. Paul's Cathedral stands in the wards of Castle Baynard and Farringdon , and in the ...
... building in London , is a fit edifice to be visited by a perambulator . It is , perhaps , the grandest church in the ... buildings that surround it . St. Paul's Cathedral stands in the wards of Castle Baynard and Farringdon , and in the ...
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... building are , here and there , almost as white as if covered with whitewash ; while the adjoining stonework is much more like ebony than ivory . The winds , the rains , and the climate appear to have been fickle in their attacks on ...
... building are , here and there , almost as white as if covered with whitewash ; while the adjoining stonework is much more like ebony than ivory . The winds , the rains , and the climate appear to have been fickle in their attacks on ...
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Old Humphrey. fire , was altogether ruined ; the foundations of the present building were laid in 1675 , and the ... build- ing , where the diminutive living figures are pacing the black and white marble stones ! There ! I have given one ...
Old Humphrey. fire , was altogether ruined ; the foundations of the present building were laid in 1675 , and the ... build- ing , where the diminutive living figures are pacing the black and white marble stones ! There ! I have given one ...
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