Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930, Adcock, Frederick · London, J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 122
ork was done. And to-day, when you visitthat house, you find that all the teeming life of thelast hundred and sixty years has drained out of itcompletely, and nothing remains in the old roomsbut memories of Johnson and his friends. He worksthere for ever now in the study that used to be his,poring… … FA JOHNSON AND BOSWELL 93 the undertaking. You have only to stand there andthink of it, and, if you have read Boswell and Hawkins,the life of the household as it was in those ten yearslong past refashions itself around you in the magic,old-world atmosphere of the place. Five publishers joined in…
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