Old Humphrey's Walks in London and Its NeighbourhoodReligious Tract Society, sold at the depository, 56, Paternoster Row, and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard, 1846 - London (England) - 352 pages |
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... appearance , which the present truly magnificent edifice pos- sesses . Old people are usually sticklers for things ancient in appearance , and I would not willingly part with what the finger of time has inscribed on St. Paul's . I have ...
... appearance , which the present truly magnificent edifice pos- sesses . Old people are usually sticklers for things ancient in appearance , and I would not willingly part with what the finger of time has inscribed on St. Paul's . I have ...
Page 244
... appearance to recommend it . Neither its guarded gateways , its square turrets , its front of dirty red brick , nor its old crazy cupola , is of an alluring character . Even in the short time it has occupied me to note down this remark ...
... appearance to recommend it . Neither its guarded gateways , its square turrets , its front of dirty red brick , nor its old crazy cupola , is of an alluring character . Even in the short time it has occupied me to note down this remark ...
Page 288
... appearance , that , at first , I passed by him , regarding him as a stranger . Time had been busy with him , bleaching his hair like flax , fur- rowing his cheeks and brow , and impairing the strength of his body and his mind . I could ...
... appearance , that , at first , I passed by him , regarding him as a stranger . Time had been busy with him , bleaching his hair like flax , fur- rowing his cheeks and brow , and impairing the strength of his body and his mind . I could ...
Contents
Old Humphreys City Gratifications | 1 |
The Tower of London | 11 |
St Pauls Cathedral | 27 |
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