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«Cupid's dart had hit both targets and set the Nile on fire. And the Tiber. Even the Thames sizzled a bit.»
«I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels, dressd and adornd with all imaginabe Pomp: but, above all, the Thrones, Arches, Pageants & other representations, stately barges of the Lord Major, & Companies, with varius Inventions, musique, & Peales of Ordnance from both the vessels & shore, going to meet & Conduct the new Queene from Hampton Court to White-hall, at the first time of her Coming to Towne, exceeding in my opinion, all the Venetian Bucentoro?s &c on the Ascention, when they go to Espouse the Adriatic: his Majestie & the Queene, came in an antique-shaped open Vessell, covered with a State or Canopy of Cloth of Gold, made in forme of a Cupola, supported with high Corinthian Pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoones & Gyrlands: I was in our new-built Vessell, sailing amongst them»
Author: John Evelyn
(Writer)
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History,
Literature,
Society
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Adriatic, antique, antiques, arches, canopy, cloth, companies, Considering, Corinthian, cupola, espouse, espoused, Hampton, innumerable, magnificent, ordnance, pageant, pageants, pillars, pomp, representations, sailing vessel, stately, supported, Thames, The Adriatic, thrones, Venetian, wreathe, wreathed
«If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
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critics, How to swim, swim, Thames
«If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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calamity, fell, Gladstone, misfortune, pulled, Thames
«The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.»
«Crossing the stripling Thames at Bablock-hithe, / Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet, / As the slow punt swings round.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
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crossing, Crossing the, punt, stripling, Thames, trailing
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