A Morning's Walk from London to Kew
Excerpt: ...house stood nearer to the Kit-Cat Club-rooms, having a few years since been taken down. The situation is certainly not a happy one, being on a level with the Thames, and the adjacent grounds being deeply flooded at high tides. It is, however, completely sequestered from vulgar approach, and on that account was, perhaps, preferred as the retreat of a man of business. At Barnes' Elms lived the virtuous minister of Elizabeth, Sir Francis Walsingham, and here he once entertained that chivalrous queen. Cowley, the poet, afterwards resided here; and, in a later age Heydegger, the buffoon, who gave an eccentric entertainment to the secon…
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-66019-8
- EAN: 9781153660198
- Produktnummer: 14787400
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 76 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.4 cm 167 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 167
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