Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of LondonJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 356 pages |
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... wrote the plays . Churchill was born at Vine Street , Westminster ; Keats in Moor- fields ; and , staunchest and one of the most incor- rigible Londoners of them all , Charles Lamb in Crown Office Row , Temple . He refers , in one of ...
... wrote the plays . Churchill was born at Vine Street , Westminster ; Keats in Moor- fields ; and , staunchest and one of the most incor- rigible Londoners of them all , Charles Lamb in Crown Office Row , Temple . He refers , in one of ...
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... wrote to Words- worth , " if I never see a mountain . I have passed all my days in London , until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of your moun- taineers can have done with dead Nature . . . . I often shed ...
... wrote to Words- worth , " if I never see a mountain . I have passed all my days in London , until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of your moun- taineers can have done with dead Nature . . . . I often shed ...
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... wrote , saying how he pined to be back again in London : " In dreams I am in Fleet Market , but I wake and cry to sleep again . . . . Oh , never let the lying poets be believed who ' tice men from the cheerful haunts of streets ...
... wrote , saying how he pined to be back again in London : " In dreams I am in Fleet Market , but I wake and cry to sleep again . . . . Oh , never let the lying poets be believed who ' tice men from the cheerful haunts of streets ...
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... wrote plays , and of which he was one of the pro- prietors . There used to be an inscription : " Here lived William Shakespeare , " on the face of an old gabled house in Aldersgate Street , but there was never a rag of evidence to ...
... wrote plays , and of which he was one of the pro- prietors . There used to be an inscription : " Here lived William Shakespeare , " on the face of an old gabled house in Aldersgate Street , but there was never a rag of evidence to ...
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... wrote Macbeth and King Lear , and the fact that he had his home here during the period in which he was writing ten of his plays - three of them amongst the greatest he or any man ever wrote- makes this corner of Monkwell Street the most ...
... wrote Macbeth and King Lear , and the fact that he had his home here during the period in which he was writing ten of his plays - three of them amongst the greatest he or any man ever wrote- makes this corner of Monkwell Street the most ...
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