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She was greatly struck by the amount of open land in the neighborhood of London the commons between Wandsworth and Streatham, and so forth and she was pleased with the appearance of the country about Red Hill. Finally, with just a glimpse of a great mass of gray houses filling a vast hollow and stretching up the bare green downs beyond, they found themselves in Brighton.
Thrale's in Streatham, when, if she seemed about to take her leave, Dr. Johnson would exclaim, "Don't you go, little Burney, don't you go!" A Bluestocking at Court
In one of his memorandum-books I find, 'Sunday, went to church at Streatham. Templo valedixi cum osculo . He met Mr. Philip Metcalfe often at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, and other places, and was a good deal with him at Brighthelmston this autumn, being pleased at once with his excellent table and animated conversation. Mr.
Word has come from Streatham that my sister has met with a serious accident and is in a very critical condition. Your uncle and I must go to Streatham immediately and are leaving on the eight o'clock express. I know you have started before this, so there is no use in telegraphing. We want you to go right to the house and make yourself at home.
Thrale calculates that, as we left Streatham on the fifteenth of September, we shall see it again about the fifteenth of November. * Written from a tour in France with the Thrales, Johnson's only visit to the Continent. Miss Thrale. 'I think I had not been on this side of the sea five days before I found a sensible improvement in my health. I ran a race in the rain this day, and beat Baretti.
He who is, like myself, so constituted as necessarily to lose any piece of paper he has particular reason to preserve, will find himself wishing the place were called 'Pine Crest' or 'Heather Crag' like any unobtrusive villa in Streatham. But his sense of some sort of incalculable calculations, as of the vision of a mad mathematician, is rooted in a more real impression.
How stranger still that it is I, Edward Malone, who have written them I who started only some twelve hours ago from my rooms in Streatham without one thought of the marvels which the day was to bring forth!
I'm thinking only of my little home at Streatham Hill. The horrible Hun? I've no quarrel with the poor blighters over there by Hooge. They are in the same bloody mess as we are. They hate it just as much. We're all under a spell together, which some devils have put on us. I wonder if there's a God anywhere."
How much then, and how reasonably must he have wondered, and how easily must he have been led to express his wonder, at seeing a village no bigger than that of Streatham, contain a number of people equal, as I doubt not but it does, to all the dwellers in Ferrara! Mr.
"Miss Humfray, a lady will see you." ... "Oh, too young far too young." ... "Thank you, that will do, Miss Humfray." ... "Oh, not my style at all." ... "Thank you, that will do, Miss Humfray." On the Spot. Fortunately On the Spot one day a Mrs. Eyton-Eyton, as nursery governess, Streatham. For a week very much On the Spot with Mrs. Eyton-Eyton.
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