Kenna's Kingdom: a Ramble Through Kingly KensingtonDavid Bogue, 1881 - 80 páginas |
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... say , degenerated . It has become , like everything else , fast . During spring and summer hundreds of young men , armed with knapsacks and guide - books , disperse themselves over the country , walking frantically for four or five ...
... say , degenerated . It has become , like everything else , fast . During spring and summer hundreds of young men , armed with knapsacks and guide - books , disperse themselves over the country , walking frantically for four or five ...
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... say in the Flower Walk , and closing their eyes , allow them- selves to drift backwards , backwards to that remote period when fairies gambolled on this island , a period far beyond the historic era of Julius Cæsar - far 2 KENNA'S KINGDOM .
... say in the Flower Walk , and closing their eyes , allow them- selves to drift backwards , backwards to that remote period when fairies gambolled on this island , a period far beyond the historic era of Julius Cæsar - far 2 KENNA'S KINGDOM .
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... say a great deal about them , and when we meet little men we shall say but little about them . Sometimes we may feel inclined to recall to our minds the princi- pal events in some noteworthy life , at others we may have no wish or there ...
... say a great deal about them , and when we meet little men we shall say but little about them . Sometimes we may feel inclined to recall to our minds the princi- pal events in some noteworthy life , at others we may have no wish or there ...
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... say , " Nothing truer than true or Vere , " is as celebra- ted as their starry badge . It is said , however , that the name is to be traced to a very different source , and comes from the Dutch Veer , a dam . There are persons in ...
... say , " Nothing truer than true or Vere , " is as celebra- ted as their starry badge . It is said , however , that the name is to be traced to a very different source , and comes from the Dutch Veer , a dam . There are persons in ...
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... says that there was a royal nursery established here for the children of Bluff King Hal . In the time of Charles the First there was a vicarage , with a house and garden and orchard , while Holland House , Campden House , Cromwell House ...
... says that there was a royal nursery established here for the children of Bluff King Hal . In the time of Charles the First there was a vicarage , with a house and garden and orchard , while Holland House , Campden House , Cromwell House ...
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Página 89 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, Parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and Pride that licks the dust.
Página 98 - The road between this place (Kensington) and London is grown so infamously bad, that we live here in the same solitude as we should do if cast on a rock in the middle of the ocean, and all the Londoners tell us there is between them and us a great impassable gulf of mud.
Página 90 - ... for the day of the week, and a watch for the hour of the day, you may inform yourself fully, without any other intelligence but your memory, of every transaction within the verge of the Court. Walking, chaises, levées, and audiences fill the morning.
Página 232 - IMPROMPTU, Suggested by a View, in 1766, of the Scat and Ruins of a Deceased Nobleman, at Kingsgate, Kent. Old, and abandon'd by each venal friend, Here H dt form'd the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution.
Página 27 - BONAPARTE. NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION, completed by the insertion of above One Hundred Birds omitted in the original Work, and Illustrated by valuable Notes, and Life of the Author, by Sir WILLIAM JARDINE.
Página 268 - ... who found himself for the first time among Ambassadors and Earls. They will remember that constant flow of conversation, so natural, so animated, so various, so rich with observation and anecdote ; that wit which never gave a wound ; that exquisite mimicry which ennobled, instead of degrading; that goodness of heart which appeared in every look and accent, and gave additional value to every talent and acquirement.
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Página 97 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Página 16 - Flagellate, Ciliate, and Tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and Foreign, and an account of the Organization and Affinities of the Sponges.
Página 268 - The time is coming when perhaps a few old men, the last survivors of our generation, will in vain seek, amidst new streets, and squares, and railway stations, for the site of that dwelling...