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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 31

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ther than Ill to the West return, Ill beg of thee first here to have mine urn. There speaks the true Cockney; he would sooner bedead in London than alive in the West of England. 6 FAMOUS LONDON HOUSES Even Lambs love of London was scarcely greaterthan that. It was fitting that Pope, essentially a… … Bacon was born at York House, in the Strand ; which,to my thinking, is the strongest argument in favourof the theory that he wrote the plays. Churchill wasborn at Vine Street, Westminster; Keats in Moor-fields ; and, staunchest and one of the most incor-rigible Londoners of them all, Charles Lamb…

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