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 322
of the noblest, runsout upon a Parade (perhaps they call it) running alongthe shore of the river, a broad highway with hugeshady trees, boats lying moored, and a smeU of shippingand tar. A note in Allinghams Diary (i860) offers you a veryclear little picture of Carlyles garden here, as he sawit: In… … ~^^^^^^S^^~ Ampton SmesT. CHELSEA MEMORIES 279 hot; a vine or two on one wall, neighboured by ajasmine—one pear tree. In this Cheyne Row house Carlyle wrote all hisbooks, except Sartor and some of the miscellaneousessays ; here he entertained, not always very wilHnglyor very graciously, most of the…
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