The London Burial Grounds: Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present DayMacmillan, 1896 - 339 páginas |
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Abbey acre in extent Additional ground adjoining Aldgate Allhallows Almshouses amongst Baptist Bartholomew's belonging Bermondsey Bethnal Green Bishopsgate bodies bones Botolph's buildings built Bunhill Fields burial-ground burial-places buried Cannon Street Station Cathedral Cemetery Chapel Chapel-ground church of St churchyard of St City Clerkenwell cloisters closed for burials coffins Congregational consecrated crowded crypt dead Dissenters district Disused Burial Grounds East erected existed Friars Fulham full of tombstones George's Giles graves gravestones graveyard Hackney Hammersmith Hospital houses human remains interred James's Jewish John's Kensal Green Kyrle Society laid Lane London County Council London Wall Martin's Mary Mary's Metropolitan Public Gardens Mile End monuments neatly north side Pancras parish of St Paul's Churchyard pest-field piece plague playground Priory Public Gardens Association Railway recreation ground Road Roman Catholic Rotherhithe Shoreditch Southwark square yards Stepney stones Street tombs tombstones Tower untidy vaults Vestry wall Wandsworth Westminster Whitechapel workhouse
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Página 73 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 266 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Página 260 - Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
Página 250 - With thy rude ploughshare, Death, turn up the sod, And spread the furrow for the seed we sow ; This is the field and Acre of our God, This is the place, where human harvests grow ! TO THE RIVER CHARLES.
Página 336 - Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirty-four, " to amend the laws con" cerning the burial of the dead in England, beyond the limits of
Página 210 - ... so that many die together. I think verily that many a man taketh his death in Paul's church-yard...
Página 206 - To sever the good fellowship of dust, And spoil the meeting: what shall point out them, When they shall bow, and kneel, and fall down flat To kiss those heaps which now they have in trust?
Página 241 - With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate - with every villainy of life in action close on death, and every poisonous element of death in action close on life - here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two, here sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption...
Página 133 - ... pulled down in the year 1549. The bones of the dead, couched up in a charnel under the chapel, were conveyed from thence into Finsbury field, by report of him who paid for the carriage, amounting to more than one thousand cart-loads, and there laid on a moorish ground, in short space after raised, by soilage of the city upon them, to bear three windmills.
Página 108 - Pendrell, thro" the universe! Like when the Eastern Star from Heaven gave light To three lost kings : so he, in such dark night, To Britain's monarch...