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"A Lady once 't was many years ago asked me to lend her a book out of my library at Streatham Park. 'A book of entertainment, said J, 'of course. 'That I don't know or rightly comprehend; was her odd answer; 'I wish for an Abridgment. 'An Abridgment of what? 'That, she replied, 'you must tell me, my Dear; for I am no reader, like you and Dr.
Many evolutionists much wiser had "figured out" things even more babyish. He was an honest and humble recipient of the plodding popular science of his time; he spread no ideas that any cockney clerk in Streatham could not have spread for him. But it was exactly because he had no ideas to spread that he invoked slaughter, violated justice, and ruined republics to spread them.
Hugh felt in his pockets. He had not one. "Never mind," he said, opening the door. "I've plenty inside. Come in." Hugh went in first, extricating his key. Captain Pratt followed, murmuring, "Nice little dens, these. A pal of mine lives just above Streatham. You know Streatham, son of Lord " The remainder of the sentence was lost. The door opened straight into the little sitting-room.
The summer months sent us about visiting and pleasuring, ... and after another gay London season, Streatham Park, unoccupied by tenants, called us as if really home. Mr.
In September of this year Miss Burney records the following conversation at Streatham: 'MRS. THRALE. "Pray, Sir, how does Mrs. Williams like all this tribe?" DR. J. "Madam, she does not like them at all; but their fondness for her is not greater.
Seward , a great favourite at Streatham, has been, I think, enkindled by our travels with a curiosity to see the Highlands. I have given him letters to you and Beattie. He desires that a lodging may be taken for him at Edinburgh, against his arrival. He is just setting out. 'Langton has been exercising the militia . Mrs. Williams is, I fear, declining. Dr. Lawrence says he can do no more.
Johnson started for Lichfield and Ashbourne about May 20, and returned to London towards the end of June. Piozzi Letters, ii. 44, 55. 'It is good, he wrote, 'to wander a little, lest one should dream that all the world was Streatham, of which one may venture to say, none but itself can be its parallel. Ib. p. 47. 'None but thyself can be thy parallel' is from Theobald's Double Falsehood.
She expressed the most fervent thankfulness for the quiet, order, and comfort of her pleasant lodgings, comparing them very feelingly with what used to be her condition before any such place had been provided. From this place we drove to the Streatham Street Lodging House for families, of which the following is an outside view.
Let us humbly trust that in that sketch, round and complete, of all that can ever come to us, my readers and I may be able to read the history of our Future Years! Ninety years ago, one of the pleasantest houses near London, for the society that gathered within it, was Mr., or rather, Mrs. Thrale's, at Streatham Park.
The pair then joined in begging Johnson to leave his solitary abode, and come to them at their country-house at Streatham. He complied, and for the next sixteen years a room was set apart for him, both at Streatham and in their house in Southwark. He passed a large part of his time with them, and derived from the intimacy most of the comfort of his later years. He treated Mrs.
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