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Thomas 1839- Miller. Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present
Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present
Table of Contents
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS
ADVERTISEMENT
PICTURESQUE SKETCHES. OF. L O N D O N
Ancient London
CHAPTER II. ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL—DOCTORS’ COMMONS—THE OLD CITY STREETS
CHAPTER III. CHEAPSIDE AND LOMBARD STREET
CHAPTER IV. THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BILLINGSGATE, NEW COAL EXCHANGE, AND TOWER OF LONDON
CHAPTER V. THE TOWER
CHAPTER VI. Docks, Sailors, and Emigrants
CHAPTER VII. WHITECHAPEL, AND THE OLD REMAINS IN BISHOPSGATE-STREET
CHAPTER VIII. GUILDHALL AND THE LORD MAYOR’S SHOW
CHAPTER IX. CHRIST’S HOSPITAL
CHAPTER X. SMITHFIELD
CHAPTER XI. NEWGATE
CHAPTER XII. FLEET-STREET, OLD ALSATIA, AND LONDON LODGING-HOUSES
CHAPTER XIII. THE STRAND, ADELPHI, AND COVENT-GARDEN MARKET
CHAPTER XIV. WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND THE PARKS
CHAPTER XV. ST. GILES’s
CHAPTER XVI. LONDON FOG
CHAPTER XVII. THE OLD BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
CHAPTER XVIII. STREET AMUSEMENTS
CHAPTER XIX. SPRING-TIME IN LONDON
CHAPTER XX. LONDON CEMETERIES AND THE EPIDEMIC IN 1849
CHAPTER XXI. GREENWICH
CHAPTER XXII. HOLIDAYS OF THE LONDON POOR
INDEX
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Thomas Miller
Published by Good Press, 2019
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But for proofs like these, we might fancy that such a soul had but mistaken its way while wandering from the abodes of the gods, and brought with it to the earth all the wisdom and poetry which it had taken an immortality to gather; that when he returned to his native home, the gates of heaven closed not suddenly enough upon him to shut out the undying echoes of his golden utterance; but that for ever the winds of heaven were chartered to repeat them—to blow them abroad into every corner of the earth—nor cease their mission until the language he spoke shall be uttered by “every nation, kindred, and tongue.” Such a deed as this alone proves his mortality; for the creations of his genius carry him as far away from the common standard of men as heaven is from earth.
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