The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14779267641)

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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ros ;Els gens cors ben taillats,Don sieu empresenats,De vostra amor que mi lia. CCEUR DE LION. Si bel trop afiansia,Ja, de vos, non partrai,Que major honorai,Sol, en votre deman,Que santra des beisan,Pot can de vos vobrai. tinued pressure of the National expenditure upon the middleranks of society, rather than to the refinements of the age. 1 he where-withall has been extracted from the domestic hearth,—whether for purposes of good or ill—and the glow of everysocial and generous feeling chilled into a repulsive selfishnessby the craving wants of the immediate homestead.—Ed. 224 THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. And has been thus translated :— Your beauty, lady fair, None view without delight, But still as cold as airNo passion you excite ; Yet this I patient see, While all are shunnd like me. No nymph my heart can woundIf fayours she divide, And smile on all aroundUnwilling to decide ; Id rather hatred bear, Than loye with others share. Nykon. RUINS OF OLD LONDON BRIDGE.
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Prior to the entire removal of Old Londox Bridgewe shall here briefly record the more important cir-cumstances connected with its history;~-premising,that the above cut represents the dilapidated remainsof this once venerable structure, as they appeared inMarch 1832, when the original sketch was made bvMr. W. A. Delamotte. The origin of London Bridge is unknown; and,with the exception of Dion Cassius, no mention ismade by any historian of a Bridge over the RiverThames in the Roman times; but that writer has in-cidentally noticed one, when recording- the invasion ofthe Emperor Claudius, in the year 44. His account,in substance, is as follows :— The Britons, retreatingupon the River Thames, where it falls into the sea,(it being from inundation stagnant,) readily passedover, from knowing both the firm and the easily-ford- able parts, whilst the Romans, in following them,were much endangered : upon which, swimming back,another party, crossing by a Bridge a little higher up,overtook and