We could have blown up the
Tower of London with these charges.
They are worthy to rank with Cruikshank's illustrations of Jack Sheppard and The
Tower of London, as mementoes of the little old smokeless London before the century of Johnson, though that, too, as Dr.
The next morning we went to see a favorite object of American interest, in the metropolis of England--the
Tower of London. The citizens of the United States find this relic of the good old times of great use in raising their national estimate of the value of republican institutions.
Remember the warning you have received keep secret what has this night befallen you, and you will have no room to repent it neglect what is now told you, and the
Tower of London shall not protect you against our revenge.''
I felt as if I were walking up and down in the Armory, in the Tower of London! My dear boy, don't think me a vulgar brute for hinting at it, but you may depend upon it, all they wanted was your money.
He also visited the Tower of London and Madame Tussaud's exhibition.
Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White
Tower of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of an untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its neighbors --the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody?
"And did you promise the queen," resumed D'Artagnan, petulantly, "to storm the
Tower of London, to kill a hundred thousand soldiers, to fight victoriously against the wishes of the nation and the ambition of a man, and when that man is Cromwell?
Opposite the
Tower of London he found the vessel that had been named to him, delivered his letter to the captain, who after having it examined by the governor of the port made immediate preparations to sail.
Dobbin, who arrived on the beautiful bay horse in the afternoon--in the green coat and pink neck-cloth, with the gold-headed whip, who promised to show him the
Tower of London and take him out with the Surrey hounds." At last, he said, "There was an old gentleman, with thick eyebrows, and a broad hat, and large chain and seals." He came one day as the coachman was lunging Georgy round the lawn on the gray pony.
We varied the legal character of these proceedings by going to see some perspiring Wax-work, in Fleet Street (melted, I should hope, these twenty years); and by visiting Miss Linwood's Exhibition, which I remember as a Mausoleum of needlework, favourable to self-examination and repentance; and by inspecting the
Tower of London; and going to the top of St.
This depicts the White Tower, demonstrating the link between the
Tower of London and The Royal Mint, which operated within the fortress for centuries.
