The Land We Live in: London & its neighbourhood, Kent and the South coast, and South Wales

William S. Orr & Company, 1856 - England

Contents

• Its Wealth and Power Compared with Paris Vienna and Ber: 7
• THE SAIL AND THE STEAMER: 16
• Government and Limits of the Port of London and of the Pool: 25
• Warehouses of the West India Docks Tobacco Warehouses: 44
• The National Gallery Angerstein Pictures Various Contribu: 50
• The Corntrade of the Thames Corporate Mode of Buying: 59
• THE BRITISH MUSEUM: 76
• Importance of the Timbertrade Various Classes into which: 85
• The Sculpture Collection in the British Museum the Xanthian: 86
• THE PARKS AND GARDENS OF LONDON: 92
• Various Duels in Hydepark Frequency of Highway Robberies: 100
• Situation of the Regentspark Geography of the Regentspark: 107
• Kew Interesting to the Lover of Flowers Successive Additions: 114
• THE CRYSTAL PALACE: 124
• Eastern Aisle of the Transept Sir Francis Veres Effigy: 125
• 232: 127
• THE GOVERNMENT: 139
• Bad Accommodation for Ships in the Thames Half a Century: 146
• The Privy Council Distinction of the Cabinet from the Privy: 151
• The Mint Moneyers in London in the Reign of Athelstan Erec: 159
• WESTMINSTER ABBEY: 172
• The ChapterHouse appropriateness of the appellation Poets: 178
• The Claims of Hastings to Popularity Changes in the Cha: 182
• THE NEW PALACE OF WESTMINSTER: 200
• Discovery of the Pictorial Wealth of St Stephens Chapel: 207
• The North Front of the New Palace Statues of the Saxon: 213
• Cessation of the Migratory Habits of Parliament in the Reign: 223
• or Italian Court the Medieval Court the Pompeian: 234
• Sheerness Ships in Ordinary at Sheerness Appearance: 239
• CANTERBURY: 247
• The Church of St Mary Magdalene Canterbury St Martins: 254
• Devastation of St Augustine within the last seventy years: 257
• OFFICES: 258
• mains in the Isle of Thanet Scenery of the Isle of Thanet: 263
• The Resistance of Dover to the Conqueror Gradual Increase: 287
• Hythe Contemplated Abandonment of Hythe in the Reign: 301
• Romney Church Old Romney Situation of Lydd Appear: 305
• Charles Lambs Account of his Impressions of Hastings Climate: 313
• BRIGHTON: 324
• THE BARONIAL HALLS OF KENT: 333
• day Appearance of Penshurst Place Ben Jonsons Lines: 338
• Horace Walpoles deprecatory notice of Sir Philip Sidney easily: 346
• TWICKENHAM AND RICHMOND: 353
• Convent attached to Richmond Palace by Henry VII Popu: 360
• HAMPTON COURT: 368
• Alterations at Hampton Court made by William III Hampton: 376
• Paintings in Hampton Court Portraits of Henry VIII by Hol: 380
• sume: 382
• Hampton to Windsor the Great Park Act of Parliament passed: 387
• View from Coopers Hill Denhams Poem Runnemede: 397
• Geological Features of South Wales the Coal District of South: 404
• The Boys Library in the New Buildings Literary Relics: 423
• Colnbrook Richings Thomsons Visit to Richings Shenstones: 440
• The Highstreet Judicious Mode of Building adopted in Chel: 447
• Gloucester Cathedral Interior of the Cathedral Monument: 454
• Processes in Iron Smelting subsequent to the Melting: 459
• Welsh Scenery Influence of Railways Difference in: 462
• Northern Portion of Brecknockshire Characteristics of Radnor: 467
• Immense Export of Coal from South Wales the South Wales: 473
• Zinc Works in the Swansea Valley Processes of Tin Plate: 480
• Dynevor Castle Route from Swansea to Caermarthen: 485
• The Hotels of South Wales the Devils Pulpit Shipbuilding: 493

Popular passages

Page 428 - to one who wanders trustfully about it : " Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray Where the nibbling flocks do stray. Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it‎

Page 179 - that is not disagreeable." In another passage he says, " When I see kings lying by those who deposed them,—when I consider rival wits placed side by side,—or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes,—I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.‎

Page 387 - mom, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.‎

Page 411 - Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly the approach of morn.‎

Page 429 - into the highest regions of poetry. " I had," he says (' Reasons of Church Government'), " an inward prompting, which grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written‎

Page 184 - and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face ; One would not, sure, be frightful when one 's dead ! And—Betty—give this cheek a little red." This was, perhaps, a fair mark ; but, generally speaking, we could imagine no more startling commentary than might be made on the works of most satirists by‎

Page 429 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." " You ask me of what I am thinking,‎

Page 365 - the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; Л third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.‎

Page 421 - A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was everything by fits, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was poet, statesman, fiddler, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking.‎

Page 374 - glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades, Here in full light the russet plains extend; There, wrapt in clouds, the bluish hills ascend. E'en the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That, crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Land We Live in: London & its neighbourhood, Kent and the South coast, and South Wales; Volume 2 of The Land We Live in: A Pictorial, Historical and Literary Sketch-book of the British Islands
• Publisher: William S. Orr & Company, 1856
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Apr 25, 2007