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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
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anting a revival of the usage at Almacks, it mightbe found productive of the precise results describedby Burton, as attendant on its existence in Attica.From his relation, it appears that Xenophon, (at abanquet,) after vainly endeavouring to move the pas-sions of Socrates, closed all with a pleasant inter-lude, or dance, of Dionysius and Ariadne, in whichthe amorous blandishments of a bride and bridegroomwere so correctly displayed to musical cadences, thatall the spectators were so ravished at the sight, thatthe married men hasted home to their wives, and thesingle ones sought to get married ! FEMALE SPY. The Earl of Surrey, writing to Cardinal Wolsey,says, that he was spared from burning the Priory ofColdstream, bycause the prioresse thereof is oon ofthe best and assured spyes that wee have in Scotland,for which cawse we may not well spare her. * Elliss Original Letters on English History, p. 224. 184 THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. HOSTELRY OF THE PRIOR OF LEWES, SOUTHWARK.
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The progress of the works for forming the approachfrom Tooley Street to the new London Bridge, has laidopen some further remains of the Hostelry of thePrior of Lewes.* \ - These remains consist of a vaulted chamber, forming-a parallelogram of about twenty-seven feet in length,by twenty-one feet in Avidth, and originally aboutten feet in height; but the earth has accumulated tothe depth of about three feet, thus reducing the height,as at present, to about seven feet. The style andcharacter of the building are very similar to that ofthe chamber before described,! but somewhat plainerand more solid. In the centre is a plain massive round pillar, fromthe capital of which elliptic-ribbed arches are extendedto a flat pier, or pilaster, at each of the four sides ofthe chamber; and from the pilasters to square quarter-columns at the angles of the chamber, other similararches are extended, forming a groined roof. Theheight of the central pillar, including the base andcapital, is about six feet

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