Old Saint Paul's : a tale of the plague and the fire . Paul? Q Ola Ik OLD SAINT PAULS A TALE OF THE PLAGUE AND THE FIRE, BY WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. AUTHOR OF THE TOWER OF LONDON, ETC. A dreadful Plague in London wasIn the year Sixty Five,Which swept an hundred thousand soulsAway, — yet I alive. Dkfoe. Bisioryofthe Great Plague of London. ? Nor could thy fabric, Pauls, defend thee thou wert sacred to thy Makers praise,Though made immortal by a poets poets songs the Theban walls could raise. The daring flames pept in, and saw from far The awful beauties of tliy sacred qu
Old Saint Paul's : a tale of the plague and the fire . Paul? Q Ola Ik OLD SAINT PAULS A TALE OF THE PLAGUE AND THE FIRE, BY WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. AUTHOR OF THE TOWER OF LONDON, ETC. A dreadful Plague in London wasIn the year Sixty Five,Which swept an hundred thousand soulsAway, — yet I alive. Dkfoe. Bisioryofthe Great Plague of London. ? Nor could thy fabric, Pauls, defend thee thou wert sacred to thy Makers praise,Though made immortal by a poets poets songs the Theban walls could raise. The daring flames pept in, and saw from far The awful beauties of tliy sacred quire :But since it was profaned by Civil War, Heaven thought it fit to have it purged by fire. Dryden. Annus Mirabilis. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN FRANKLIN. IN THREE I. LONDON:HUGH CUNNINGHAM, SAINT IMARTINS PLACE, TRAFALGAR SQUARE. 1841. LONDON:IRINTEU BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. io. i -I ,f 1^ TOMR. SERJEANT TALFOURD, THE AUTHOR OF THE TWO NOBLEST TRAGEDIES OF MODERN TIMES, «ION, AND THE ATHENIAN CAPTIVE; THE WARM Foldsaintpaulstal01ains
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