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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... look in the shop windows , for many of them supply food for profitable speculation . I like to pause as the plumed hearse and mourning coaches , drawn by black horses arching their proud necks and lifting their feet high , slowly move ...
... look in the shop windows , for many of them supply food for profitable speculation . I like to pause as the plumed hearse and mourning coaches , drawn by black horses arching their proud necks and lifting their feet high , slowly move ...
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... look at a real Vandyck , a Grodfrey Kneller , a Murillo , or a Carlo Dolce , you may think more highly of an oil and colour shop . How eloquent might I be about industry , as I look at the bees ' wax and the honey - pot ; about the ...
... look at a real Vandyck , a Grodfrey Kneller , a Murillo , or a Carlo Dolce , you may think more highly of an oil and colour shop . How eloquent might I be about industry , as I look at the bees ' wax and the honey - pot ; about the ...
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... look at the huge rolls of superfine broad cloth , that remind one of an English squire of the olden time , with his good old dame beside him : " He in English true blue , button'd up to the chin , And she in her broad farthingale ...
... look at the huge rolls of superfine broad cloth , that remind one of an English squire of the olden time , with his good old dame beside him : " He in English true blue , button'd up to the chin , And she in her broad farthingale ...
Contents
Old Humphreys City Gratifications | 1 |
The Tower of London | 11 |
St Pauls Cathedral | 27 |
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