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  "An Answer to the Dragon and Grasshopper: in a Dialogue between an Old Monkey and a Young Weasel, at the Three Cranes Tavern, in the Poultry


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  Cradle Warwick Castle Old Inn Washington Irving''s Parlour From the Warwick Shield Holy Trinity Church


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id: 29754
author: Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)
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  The Whittier Hill which overlooks the poet''s Amesbury home was named this vicinity that Thomas Whittier built his first house in Haverhill. Portraits of Whittier''s brother, his sisters, his mother, and his old Whittier took us that October day to neighbor Ayer''s house, where the went to Corliss Hill, where Whittier showed us the two houses in which In these lines Whittier has told in brief the whole story of his life, Whittier''s to Mrs. West has come to light, written about the time this [Illustration: THE WHITTIER HOME, AMESBURY] The Friends'' meeting-house, in 1836, was nearly opposite the Whittier seen from Po Hill is referred to by Whittier at the opening of the poem Friends is held at Amesbury, and during the fifty-six years of Mr. Whittier''s residence in the village, this was an occasion on which he opposite the Greenleaf place, and Whittier''s poem "The Home-Coming of

title:
  Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected.


id: 30390
title: Dickens'' London
author: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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  London Dickens knew, as well as of the changes which have taken place sights and scenes of London connected with the life of Charles Dickens. Yard, and Shoe Lane, the Middle and Inner Temples, and Sergeant''s Inn. The great fire of London of 1666 stopped at St. Dunstan''s-in-the-West and frequented by the London journalist of to-day and of Dickens'' time, still Dickens, like most others who have written of London life, has made have changed since Dickens'' day, London Bridge is undergoing widening and the time of Charles I., and the buildings remaining in Dickens'' day, In Dickens'' time, that glorious thoroughfare, known of all present-day The theatres of London, during the later years of Dickens'' life, may be Of the great event of Dickens'' day, which took place in London, none was Perhaps the greatest topographical change in the London of Dickens'' day middle-class Londoner, who repairs there, or did in Dickens'' time, on


id: 31133
title: Home Life of Great Authors
author: Griswold, Hattie Tyng
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  little time for reading, yet wish to know something of the private life who had now passed thirty years of age, for the first time loved a passions of life; who knew no love, no hate, no ambition, no great poet''s one great love than any of the others who for a time held his married,--a long time, as the world goes, for husband and wife to is none other than man''s normal life as we shall one day know it,'' life he lived in the world''s eye, and the world feels a great interest large school, where she lived a sad life for a long time, without any of be long before an admiring world shall read at the end of his life''s Mr. and Mrs. Longfellow passed here a long, beautiful, and happy life, devotedly made some of her life-long friends at this time. the life and thought of the coming time.


id: 31814
title: Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations
author: Hemstreet, Charles
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  In the first ten years that Colden lived in New York he wrote In the far down-town business section of New York, there is a street Wall Street, close by the house where Alexander Hamilton lived, who in years, was to leave the humble house in Nassau Street, to live in the [Illustration: MAP OF STREETS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN 1827.] walked along the streets of New York for the first time. Paulding lived with William Irving in the Vesey Street house for nine At the time that Cooper lived in New York there walked along Broadway, Chapel Street, to the house where at that time he made his home. For nine years after The Mad Poet went to the Chapel Street house his from his last city home in Greene Street to live out the remaining house near Washington Square, where he lived for some years and wrote


id: 35105
title: Shakespeare''s England
author: Winter, William
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  sombre, mysterious, thoughtful, restful old London; and, like the Syrian letters on a little slab in the stone floor mark the last resting-place place in London where the past and the present are so strangely of Shakespeare comes very near to the heart of the master when he stands place--the Shene of old times--was long a royal residence. presently passing through a little, winding lane, I walk in the High New Place to Stratford Church, had but a little way to go. tower of this church; and, as you walk from the place where Milton lived New Place, Shakespeare''s home at the time of his death and the house in witnesses to his will, lived in the house next to the present New Place Illustration: "Remains of the Old Font at which, probably, Shakespeare American window," is placed Shakespeare''s monument. Shakespeare''s grave, in the chancel of Stratford church,


id: 41164
title: Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2)
author: Howitt, William
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  great and able king, it is evident, regarded Chaucer as a good man of The old age of Chaucer, like that of too many men of genius, is said to Perhaps no man ever inhabited more houses than our great epic poet, yet man than William Hazlitt, who rented the house some years, purely that time lived at the manor-house, and lies buried in the church here. on the authority of the son of his truest friend and benefactor, Mr. Longueville, he had lived some years, in Rose-street, Covent Garden. their great champion Swift, Sir William Wyndham, Lord Bathurst, Dr. Arbuthnot, and other men of note of that party assembled. a great poet of the critical and didactic kind, and his house and place garments, great houses, what are they but the things which _the man_ had man at one time to go forth from a remote scene and solitary old house


id: 41146
author: Timbs, John
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  honest-hearted, real good men of the poetical members of the Club. Out of these meetings is said to have grown the Royal Society Club, thirteen persons dining at the table said to be on record in the Club circumnavigator Lord Anson honoured the Club by presenting the members The Club always dined on the Society''s meeting-day. The redoubtable Sir John Hill dined at the Club in company with Lord earliest record is a book of rules and list of members of the old Club Among the Rules of the Club, every member was to pay one guinea a year Athenæum; the Club-house in Charles-street being entered on by the of members; and in 1864, the Club removed to a new house built for members of the Clubs of the day, continued to play it. "The members of the Clubs in London, many years since, were persons,

title:
  Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries


id: 41516
author: Timbs, John
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  This old Coffee-house, No. 8, Fleet-street (south side, near Temple the beaux at the Bow-street Coffee-house, near Covent-garden did, when Coffee-house to go to dine at the tavern, where we sit till six, when the Coffee-house," says Steele, "I had not time to salute the company, south-west corner of St. James''s-street, and is thus mentioned in No. 1 of the _Tatler_: "Foreign and Domestic News you will have from St. James''s Coffee-house." It occurs also in the passage quoted at page Garden, at the Great Coffee-house there, as he called Will''s, where he The Taverns and Coffee-houses supplied the place of the Clubs we have Button''s Coffee-house, in Russell-street, Covent Garden, where it The London Coffee-house (now a tavern) is noted for its publishers'' Coffee-house," and was a well frequented tavern and hotel: it was the gate; a place of good resort, and taken up by coffee-houses,

title:
  Club Life of London, Vol. 2 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries


id: 38890
title: A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors
author: Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
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  corner Hunt lived, in the curious little house Carlyle described, and "Elegy." A near-by little ivy-grown brick house, with wide windows in the old church by which he lies, near the grave of the poet Vincent mansion are the carriage-house and the school-room of Dickens''s sons. away." Near the gate of Gad''s Hill House is a wayside inn, the "Sir John Gibbon died, Byron had for some years a suite of rooms. the church wall describes Byron as the "Author of Childe Harold''s Byron, years afterward, saw Mary for the last time and kissed for its A near-by hill is called Sterne''s Seat, but time has left here little to room, upon whose walls hung a portrait of Burns, one of his sister Mrs. Begg, and some framed autograph letters of the bard, which the niece _Voltaire''s Home, Church, Study, Garden, Relics--Literary Court of _Voltaire''s Home, Church, Study, Garden, Relics--Literary Court of


id: 38889
title: Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors
author: Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
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  Thoreau''s house, not far from the recent hermit-home of his friend Below the Thoreau-Alcott house on the village street was a prior home of Motley, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and others. Hawthorne''s time stood nearest the house remain; the producers of the Hemlocks--Haunts of Hawthorne--Channing--Thoreau--Emerson, etc._ Hemlocks--Haunts of Hawthorne--Channing--Thoreau--Emerson, etc._ lived next door Hawthorne came but twice into his house: the first time Boston home of Hawthorne; to it came Emerson, Longfellow, and Whittier A modest, old-fashioned house on Beacon Street has long been the home of Lloyd Garrison spent his last years, and in this neighborhood lived Mrs. Blake, poet of "Verses Along the Way." Here also are the early home of old Salem and the scenes of Hawthorne''s early life, work, and triumph. Hawthorne and his friend lingered in summer days, we look away to Of the simple home-life at the little red house, Hawthorne''s diaries and


id: 34526
title: Milton''s England
author: Mead, Lucia True Ames
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  ancient site of the Knights Templar, whose Temple church, in Milton''s day, The Bread Street of Milton''s day, though swept over by the Great Fire, was Milton saw the most noted house upon the street, known as "Gerrard Hall." Bishop Earle, writing when Milton was twenty years of age, describes St. Paul''s as follows: "It is a heap of stones and men with a vast confusion Court, Milton, now sixteen years old, followed his friend to Cambridge. windows, its splendid organ-screen--old in Milton''s college days--must outside the ancient parish church, that John Milton saw, except the Horton the beautiful old church where the Milton family attended service for five years old when Milton married her, in the church of St. Mary Aldermary, a churches which remain, of those that Milton saw within the city walls. such houses Milton saw at every turn in the beautiful old London that he


id: 42367
title: The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2)
author: Martin, Charlotte M.
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  carried away by new Boulevard Saint-Germain, and with it the _hôtel_ with his mother, in a small apartment on the fourth floor of No. 19--now 37--Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. the shabby houses just west of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, in Rue des was put to school in the same street, and later in Rue Saint-Louis, des Marais-Saint-Germain, now Rue Visconti; named for the famous Raphael de Valentin lived in the _hôtel-garni_ Saint-Quentin, Rue des he lived in a great mansion, No. 40 Rue Saint-Lazare, in other rooms Not far from this house of death, in Rue Saint-Antoine too, was a warrants, and he places the house in Rue des Tournelles, while it was year 1813, in a roomy old building of the time of Louis XV., in Rue du piece of it, holding an old house, that fronted on Rue Saint-Antoine, grounds of the Hôtel Saint-Paul and the cutting of streets through


id: 41914
title: The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2)
author: Martin, Benjamin Ellis
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  escorting the little ten-year-old Henry IV., the new King of England, Saint-André-des-Arts, and was done away with in the cutting of Rue Saint-André-des-Arts, and the very ancient walls in the rear court of Saint-Germain comes down to the quay, and where the old wall came down the end of this latter street, where Rue Saint-Honoré passes in front Meung, its site now marked by a tablet in the wall of the house No. 218 Rue Saint-Jacques. narrow lane in the marshes, named later Rue des Marais-Saint-Germain, timbered house on the eastern corner of Rues Saint-Honoré and des house owned by his father, on the old corner of Rue de la Réale, and side of the street, about half way up between Rue des Écoles and Place named Rue des Marais-Saint-Germain, having begun life as a country Molière comes from his rooms in Rue Saint-Honoré, or from his theatre; large house, No. 61 Rue Saint-André-des-Arts.


id: 44269
title: Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London
author: Adcock, Arthur St. John
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  Sir Joshua Reynolds''s House, Great Newport Street 57 life." Again, "Fleet Street and the Strand," he writes to Manning, "are Shakespeare," on the face of an old gabled house in Aldersgate Street, but lived in Bow Lane; Donne, who was born in Wood Street, wrote his early you pass a narrow, mean street of small houses, which is Bolingbroke Road, Street, but he told a friend that the happiest years of his life had been Mrs. Williams was then living in his house, which was in Gough Square. panoramic view of the life that Johnson lived in his Gough Square house, it took place at No. 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden--another famous house Ten years before Boswell went to live at 56 Great Queen Street, William Street, Euston Road, and lived here through all his most famous years, James Thornhill''s house in Dean Street; near by, in Soho Square, lived the


id: 45887
title: Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2)
author: Howitt, William
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  saw human life lie like waste land, as worthless of notice, while our Like Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and other illustrious men, Hogg, of editor of such a work; a man who, though a good poet, and wonderful, Stowey, like all other places where remarkable men have lived, even drink a glass of ale in this house, because a great man had lived in chamber, that on the right hand as you face the house, at which Mrs. Hemans, she said, used to write; and which commands a fine view of the form the life and spirit of the past many-colored ages of his country, the place many years afterward, the good old plane-tree gone, the the poet said, with great feeling--''That lady whom you saw just now is much at times in the houses of his great friends. great good-nature, and seeing me look into this room, he said, "Walk


id: 56429
title: Gray Days and Gold in England and Scotland
author: Winter, William
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  Landor has been placed on the west wall of St. Mary''s church. pass through the little red village of Rowde, with its gray church low gray tower of Moore''s church some time before you come to it, little way from the church, marked by a low flat tomb, on the end of at the wall of the graveyard in which stands the little gray church It was hard to leave the place, and for a long time I stood near the been placed in the church to mark the poet''s sepulchre: a fact which and Guild chapel; the remains of New Place; Trinity church and the looking down the long reach of the Avon toward Shakespeare''s church. destruction [1759] of the house of New Place in which Shakespeare died. villages and gray church towers,--the land grows hilly, and long white which flows close beside the place, is a church of great antiquity,


id: 57372
title: The Literary History of the Adelphi and Its Neighbourhood
author: Brereton, Austin
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  certainly left Durham House for the Tower--but it was with great pomp Adelphi--Goldsmith writes from a Sponging-House to Garrick in York House--Francis Bacon--The Great Seal taken from Him--Lord The Adelphi (Durham Yard and the New Exchange) and Charing of Cleves feast at Durham House--Dudley, Duke of Northumberland--Lady [Illustration: THE ADELPHI (DURHAM YARD AND THE NEW EXCHANGE) AND Sir Walter Raleigh was given the use of Durham House in 1583, and he born until eight years after Raleigh''s death, knew the Durham House of present George Court to Durham House Street. New Exchange--Her Burial in Westminster Abbey--Sir William Read, of Durham House and Yard into the Present Adelphi--The Magnitude of Durham House and Yard into the Present Adelphi--The Magnitude Adelphi--"for the first time this year, Mrs Garrick disliking company York House--Francis Bacon--The Great Seal taken from Him--Lord Keeper the Great Seal was Sir John Puckering, who died at York House in 1596.


