yond this green hay-fields andtree avenues, once a bishops pleasure grounds; an unpicturesqueyet rather cheerful outlook. He describes the house in detail,ending up with : On the whole a most massive, roomy, sufficientold house, with places, for example, to hang, say, three dozenhats and cloaks on,… … o t^ O CARLYLE HOUSE, CHELSEA Chelsea, that he calls a singular, heterogeneous kind of spot,very dirty and confused in some places, quite beautiful in others,with its memories of Sir Thomas More, Steele, and Smollett, waseven more fascinating in pre-embankment days than it is now.Cheyne Walk was at…
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