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Contents: Preface.Introductory.Chapter I: The Strand.Chapter II: The Inns of Court.Chapter III: By Fleet Street to St. Paul's.Chapter IV: St. Paul's and its Surroundings.Chapter V: Smithfield, Clerkenwell, and Canonbury.Chapter VI: Cheapside.Chapter VII: Aldersgate and Cripplegate.Chapter VIII: Bishopsgate.Chapter IX: In the Heart of the City.Chapter X: The Tower and its Surroundings.Chapter XI: Thames Street.Chapter XII: London Bridge and Southwark. |
Augustus J. C. Hare, Walks in London: Volume 1
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Out of monuments, names, wordes, proverbs, traditions, private recordes and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of bookes, and the like, we doe save and recover somewhat from the deluge of Time. Lord Bacon. Advance of Learning. They who make researches into Antiquity, may be said to passe often through many dark lobbies and dusky places, before they come to the Aula lucis, the great hall of light; they must repair to old archives, and peruse many moulded and moth-eaten records, and so bring light as it were out of darkness, to inform the present world what the former did, and make us see truth through our ancestors' eyes. J. Howel. Londinopolis. I'll see these things!-They're rare and passing curious-
But thus ‘tis ever; what's within our ken,
Owl-like, we blink at, and direct our search
To farthest Inde in quest of novelties;
Whilst here, at home, upon our very thresholds,
Ten thousand objects hurtle into view,
Of Int'rest wonderful,
Old Play. "To
H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught
in Grateful Rememebrance of
Pleasant Walks in a Greater and Older City
These Volumes
Are Respectfully Dedicated" [p. vii]
This text is based on the following book(s): New York, George Routledge and Sons, 416 Broome Street, 1878 .
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