Ainsworth's Novels: The Star-Chamber. 1879
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 402
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 402
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 1889-01-01
Total Pages: 1105
ISBN-13: 1465541802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest. Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-03-06
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781508772408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Star-Chamber - Volume I" from William Harrison Ainsworth. English historical novelist (1805-1882).
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Published: 2023-01-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789357273206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-03-06
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781508772507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Star-Chamber - Volume II" from William Harrison Ainsworth. English historical novelist (1805-1882).
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Published: 2023-01-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789357273633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Ainsworth
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Published: 2012-09-28
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781479393411
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Adjoining the Vintry Wharf, and at the corner of a narrow lane communicating with Thames Street, there stood, in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, a tavern called the Three Cranes. This old and renowned place of entertainment had then been in existence more than two hundred years, though under other designations. In the reign of Richard II., when it was first established, it was styled the Painted Tavern, from the circumstance of its outer walls being fancifully coloured and adorned with Bacchanalian devices. But these decorations went out of fashion in time, and the tavern, somewhat changing its external features, though preserving all its internal comforts and accommodation, assumed the name of the Three Crowns, under which title it continued until the accession of Elizabeth, when it became (by a slight modification) the Three Cranes; and so remained in the days of her successor, and, indeed, long afterwards.
Author: William Ainsworth
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Published: 2012-10-11
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781480089969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Three Cranes in the Vintry.Adjoining the Vintry Wharf, and at the corner of a narrow lane communicating with Thames Street, there stood, in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, a tavern called the Three Cranes. This old and renowned place of entertainment had then been in existence more than two hundred years, though under other designations. In the reign of Richard II., when it was first established, it was styled the Painted Tavern, from the circumstance of its outer walls being fancifully coloured and adorned with Bacchanalian devices. But these decorations went out of fashion in time, and the tavern, somewhat changing its external features, though preserving all its internal comforts and accommodation, assumed the name of the Three Crowns, under which title it continued until the accession of Elizabeth, when it became (by a slight modification) the Three Cranes; and so remained in the days of her successor, and, indeed, long afterwards.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2019-07-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781318619832
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