Highways and Byways in LondonCook, Emily Constance Baird
History
Highways and Byways in London
Cook, Emily Constance Baird
London (England) -- Description and travel
"Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat
us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his
great power from the beginning.... Leaders of the people by
their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for
the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions.... All
these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory
of their times. There be of them, that have left a name
behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some
there lie, which have no memorial ... but ... their glory
shall not be blotted out. Their bodies are buried in peace;
but their name liveth for evermore."
CHAPTER V
THE TOWER
_Prince Edward_: "Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?"
_Buckingham_: "He did, my gracious lord, begin that place;
Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified...."
_Richard of York_: "What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?...
... I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower."
_Gloucester_: "Why, what should you fear?"
_Richard of York_: "Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:
My grandam told me he was murder'd there."
--_King Richard III., Act iii, Scene 1._
"Death is here associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and
Saint Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration
and imperishable renown; not with everything that is most
endearing in social and domestic charities; but with
whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny,
with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the
inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with
all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted
fame."--_Macaulay_: "_History of England._"
"Place of doom,
Of execution too, and tomb."--_Scott._
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