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 176
ing into it, so that he and his friends mightenjoy beef-steaks, hot and hot, upon the same plan asthe members of the Beef-steak Club are supplied attheir room in the Lyceum. Though Romney was then in the decline of his life,he was at the height of his fame. He had married atthe age of nineteen, and… … RoMMSYS Mouse }1/IMPST£/ID society, and partly because Sir Joshua Reynolds hadonce said that marriage spoilt an artist, partlybecause he became infatuated with Nelsons enchan- 142 FAMOUS LONDON HOUSES tress, Lady Hamilton, he neither brought his wife toLondon, nor visited her, nor ever saw her…
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