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... both Irving and The Sketch Book famous - other tales include Roscoe, The Broken Heart, The Art of Book-making, A Royal Poet, The Spectre Bridegroom, Westminster Abbey, Little Britain, and John Bull. His stories were highly influenced by German folktales, with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow being inspired by a folktale recorded by Karl Musäus. Stories range from the maudlin (...

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...atura voice. She published a number of novels (all at her own expense) and in addition to being a novelist was a poet, her best known being 'Visiting Westminster Abbey' which begins Holy Moses! Take a look! Flesh decayed in every nook! Some rare bits of brain lie here, Mortal loads of beef and beer. C.S. Lewis, J.R. Tolkien and The Inklings were admirers and held competiti...

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...ph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton Epitaph on Dr. Francis Atterbury Epitaph on Edmund, Duke of Buckingham Epitaph for One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey Epitaph of Another on the Same Epitaph on Two Lovers Struck Dead by Lightning Epitaph on John Gay An Essay on Man Epistle I Epistle II Epistle III Epistle IV Moral Essays Epistle I Epistle II Epi...

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...iei nu ar fi fost niciodată finalizată, pe când alţii au remarcat contribuţia "mecanicului de geniu" (Hooke) căruia i-a fost refuzat locul cuvenit în Westminster Abbey de un tiran puritan (Newton). O dezbatere îndelung discutată de atunci până în zilele noastre....

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... pe toate bancnotele) pe la toate chio şcurile. Mai practic ă şi al ţii! Westminster Abbey. Fotografiile şi film ările nu sunt permise. (De ce?) 5 ... ...ncnotele) pe la toate chio şcurile. Mai practic ă şi al ţii! Westminster Abbey. Fotografiile şi film ările nu sunt permise. (De ce?) 5 ₤ intrarea. ... ...rafiile şi film ările nu sunt permise. (De ce?) 5 ₤ intrarea. Catedrala Westminster 59 Aici se încoronau regii Ang... ... Pre şedintele Mbeki al Africii de Sud, succesorul lui Nelson Catedrala Westminster Abbey 60 Mandela, vine într-o vizit ă neoficial ă la Regin ă... ...le Mbeki al Africii de Sud, succesorul lui Nelson Catedrala Westminster Abbey 60 Mandela, vine într-o vizit ă neoficial ă la Regin ă. Trece corp...

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...multe da helpo ĉe la E-istaro. La sekr. de I. K. estas H. Runham Brown, 11 Abbey Rd., En eld, Middlessex, Anglujo. I. K. havas 48 sekciojn en 27 land... ...nata revuo „Kringsjaa“ 5/3 1904 pri „Int. komerca lingvo“, rad. el angla „ Westminster Review“. En Oslo (tiama Kristiania) ĉ. 1904 kelkaj junuloj, ĉef...

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... the first to deal with this issue. As abbot of the St. Martin at Tours Abbey, the monk from York oversaw the creation of a most helpful informati... ... 1476 and devoted his remaining years to literature and printing. His Westminster Press produced England‘s first known piece of printing—a letter... ...f sixteenth century it had evolved into modern English. Caxton died in Westminster in 1492, the same year Columbus made his first voyage to Ameri...

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...as the first to deal with this issue. As abbot of the St. Martin at Tours Abbey, the monk from York oversaw the creation of a most helpful informati... ...in 1476 and devoted his remaining years to literature and printing. His Westminster Press produced England‘s first known piece of printing—a letter... ... of sixteenth century it had evolved into modern English. Caxton died in Westminster in 1492, the same year Columbus made his first voyage to Ameri...

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...r profusion and splendour, than was to be found at Windsor, Winchester, or Westminster. All the high born sat on the dais, raised on two steps with go... ...lation. It was then that the Countess heard that there was a nun at Wilton Abbey so skilled in the treatment of wounds and sores that she was thought ... ...the time they reached the descent into the long smooth valley where Wilton Abbey stood, and the 24 Grisly Grisell spire of the Cathedral cou... ... manor so important, and within the last century in the more fashion- able abbeys Latin of a sort, French “of the school of Stratford le Bowe,” and th... ...o himself the next appointment to this as well as to certain other wealthy abbeys. The nuns in much distress appealed to the Bishop, but he could do n... ...me. “Ha! how now! Methought my Lady of Salisbury had be- stowed her in the Abbey—how call you it?” “Aye,” returned Warwick; “but since we have not had... ...eign woman and her brat, who is no more hers than I am, but a mere babe of Westminster town carried into the palace when the poor King Harry was besid... ...ing hoped all was peace, we spoke our vows to one another in the garden of Westminster. She gave me this rook, I gave her the jewel of my cap; I read ...

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...d been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the foundation of a temple to ... ...ple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the foundation of a temple to Diana, he bu... ...e it many a time and often, I have no doubt. Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, was one of the most sagacious of these monks. He was an ingenious sm... ... his eyes, as you will wish they had, when you read what follows), and his abbey was given to priests who were married; whom he always, both before an... ... still the real king, drove all married priests out of the monasteries and abbeys, and replaced them by solitary monks like himself, of the rigid or ... ...r anybody to care much about him. On Christmas Day, William was crowned in Westminster Abbey, under the title of William the First; but he is best kn... ...the Red King, being a Sunday, Fine Scholar stood before the high altar in Westminster Abbey, and made a solemn declaration that he would resign the C... ...nd kept him in the Bishop’s prison. The King, holding a solemn assembly in Westminster Hall, demanded that in future all priests found guilty before t... ...hey were going too far. Though Thomas a Becket was otherwise as unmoved as Westminster Hall, they prevailed upon him, for the sake of their fears, to ...

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...der of her earliest University, having been himself educated at Paris. The Abbey of Coldingham is described from a local com- pilation of the early pa... ...ore till I be of full age; nor would I, save that I were safe lodged in an abbey; then might Patrick and Lily be wedded, and he not have to leave us a... ...ve of him, they had set out to spend Passion-tide and Easter at Coldingham Abbey, after the frequent fashion of the devoutly inclined among the Scot- ... ... Halbert suggested, some of their people had returned and taken him to the Abbey of Coldingham, and as this was by far the safest lodging and refuge f... ...n-schaw.’ After a grave Easter-tide spent at Leicester, the Court moved to Westminster, where Henry had to meet his parliament, and obtain supplies fo... ...hed in rose-water, the royal party took their seats in barges to return to Westminster by the broad and beautiful highway of the Thames. Here at once ... ...King Henry of James, as they stood together at one end of the tilt-yard at Westminster, watching Malcolm Stewart and Ralf Percy, who were play- ing at... ...f sight, though there were some open fields and wild country ere coming to Westminster, all as if she did not see them, but was wrapped in deep contem... ...ve from Vincennes to convey Henry of Monmouth to his last resting-place in Westminster Abbey. Bedford could not be spared to return to England, and wa...

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...uildings of the Priory on the others. It was only a Priory, for the parent Abbey was in the country; but the Prioress was a noble lady of the house of... ...fact, the moving spring, not only of the ac- tual house, but of the parent Abbey, manager of the property it possessed in the city, and of all its mon... ...elf, ‘but I trust, my sweet cousins, that you will favour my poor house at Westminster with your presence at a supper, and share such entertainment as... ...ld have bitten the Cardinal.) ‘But I will take order with my Lord Abbot of Westminster for a grand requiem mass for the good Queen Joanna, at which th... ... King came or sent each day to St. Helen’s to arrange about the requiem at Westminster, and when their late travelling companions invited the young la... ...and purple for his nieces, and like- wise palfreys for their conveyance to Westminster; and made it understood that unless Lady Joanna submitted to be... ...ack, came to assist her from her palfrey before the beautiful entry of the Abbey Church, and led her up the nave to the desks prepared around what was... ...ur of the Black Knight of Lorn. The Cardinal was present, but the Abbot of Westminster celebrated. All was exceedingly solemn and beautiful, in a far ... ...the best bar- gain they could by representing that they were tenants of an abbey, so that the death of the gander was sacrilegious on that account as ...

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........................................... 155 IV . ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ............................... 155 IV . ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ....................................................................... ............................................ 156 V . INTENDED FOR MR ROWE, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ................................ 156 V . INTENDED FOR MR ROWE, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ....................................................................... ........................................ 157 VIII. ON SIR GODFREY KNELLER, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1723. ..................................................... ............................ 157 VIII. ON SIR GODFREY KNELLER, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1723. ..................................................... 158 IX.... ....................................... 158 IX. ON GENERAL HENRY WITHERS, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1729. ................................................. ... ........................... 158 IX. ON GENERAL HENRY WITHERS, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1729. ................................................. 159 X. ON MR... ....................................................... 159 XI. ON MR GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. .....................................................

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...e could contest a point with her. Being known on her own authority as Miss Abbey Potterson, some water-side heads, which (like the water) were none of... ...dignity and firmness, she was named after, or in some sort related to, the Abbey at W estminster. But, Abbey was only short for Abigail, by which name... ...some sixty and odd years before. ‘Now, you mind, you Riderhood,’ said Miss Abbey Potterson, with emphatic forefinger over the half-door, ‘the 64 Our ... ...h, ‘if I behave myself, you can’t help serving me, miss.’ ‘Can ’t I!’ said Abbey, with infinite expression. ‘No, Miss Potterson; because, you see, the... ...tion. Bradley Headstone and Charley Hexam duly got to the Sur- rey side of Westminster Bridge, and crossed the bridge, and made along the Middlesex sh... ...things are not always what they seem. I saw a man examined as a witness in Westminster Hall. Questions put to him seemed the simplest in the world, bu... ...cher?’ ‘Thank you, Mr Headstone. In which direction?’ ‘In the direction of Westminster.’ ‘Mill Bank,’ Miss Peecher repeated in her own thoughts once a... ...assed over London Bridge, and re- turned to the Middlesex shore by that of Westminster, and so, ever wading through the fog, waded to the doorstep of ... ... wonderful godmother to do that deed.’ Thus conversing, and having crossed Westminster Bridge, they traversed the ground that Riah had lately traverse...

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... mysterious powers and ancient secrets that towered into tragic strength. “Abbeys there were, and abbey windows, dim and dimly seen—as Moorish temples... ...that you fancy;” which is like referring a man for his salle à man- ger to Westminster Hall or Fleet Street. Augustus, in a letter still surviving, te...

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...e Hugh Millar who alleged that the huge stone under which Edward sleeps in Westminster Abbey agrees in structure with no rocks nearer than those whenc... ...r who alleged that the huge stone under which Edward sleeps in Westminster Abbey agrees in structure with no rocks nearer than those whence the mighty... ... mourner when those honoured limbs were laid in the holy ground at Evesham Abbey. They told me, who saw him that day, that his weeping for his godfath... ...nnocentium. IF NOVELTY has its charms, so has old age, and to us the great abbey church of Westminster has become doubly beloved by long generations o... ...OVELTY has its charms, so has old age, and to us the great abbey church of Westminster has become doubly beloved by long generations of affection, and... ...imself, as one of the hallowing 32 The Prince and the Page patrons of the Abbey—nay, since at least his relics were en- tire and undoubted, as its ch... ... meantime Edward and his fam- ily were occupying it during their stay near Westminster, and their barge was brought up to the wide stairs of its noble... ...our to tarry there this night, and ride it back in the morn to meet him at Westminster.” Richard knew that this invitation might be safely accepted wi... ...as comparatively empty and quiet, as all the world were keeping holiday at Westminster; but even as it was, the pas- sengers seemed to swarm in the st...

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...ivided into twenty-one books, chaptered and emprinted, and finished in the abbey, Westminster, the last day of July the year of our Lord MCCCCLXXX?. C... ...into twenty-one books, chaptered and emprinted, and finished in the abbey, Westminster, the last day of July the year of our Lord MCCCCLXXX?. Caxton m...

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...ndants. Spirits. (Scribe:) (Keeper:) (Servant:) (Messenger:) SCENE: London; Westminster; Kimbolton Henry VIII 4 KING HENRY VIII THE PROLOGUE I come ... ...t. [Exeunt with trumpets .] Henry VIII, Act I, scene iv 24 ACT II SCENE I: Westminster. A street. [Enter two Gentlemen, meeting .] First Gentleman :... ...ll. [Exeunt.] Henry VIII, Act III, scene ii 61 ACT IV SCENE I: A street in Westminster. [Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another .] First Gentleman... ...sir! where have you been broiling? Third Gentleman : Among the crowd i’ the Abbey; where a finger Could not be wedged in more: I am stifled With the ... ...an! GRIFFITH: At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester, Lodged in the abbey; where the reverend abbot, With all his covent, honorably received ...

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...uiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal’s stately palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond— Westminster. Tom stared in glad wond... ...nd in a minute or two was as warm and comfortable as he had ever been in the downy couches of the regal palace of Westminster. Pleasant thoughts came ... ...he late King is to be buried at Windsor in a day or two—the 16th of the month—and the new King will be crowned at Westminster the 20th.” “Methinks the... ...d him to death. The King was furious over these inhumanities, and wanted Hendon to break jail and fly with him to Westminster, so that he could mount ... ...crowd of people who were watching with deep interest certain hurrying gangs of workmen who streamed in and out of Westminster Abbey, busy as ants: the... ...ple who were watching with deep interest certain hurrying gangs of workmen who streamed in and out of Westminster Abbey, busy as ants: they were makin... ...and the Pauper XXXII Coronation Day et us go backward a few hours, and place our selves in Westminster Abbey, at four o’clock in the mornin... ...he platform. The entire multitude rose, and the ceremony of the Recognition ensued. Then a noble anthem swept the Abbey with its rich waves of sound; ... ... nobles lifted a coronet and poised it over his or her head—and paused in that attitude. A deep hush pervaded the Abbey. At this impressive moment, a ...