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Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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r, the poet, the great lexicographer, theprofound moralist and chief writer of his time. Amongthose buried here are Thomas Otway and Nathaniel Lee,the dramatists; Joe Miller, who made all the jokes, and inaddition to being a facetious companion, as his epitaphsays, was a tender husband and sincere friend, ashumorists should be; Dr. Kitchener, the author of TheCooks Oracle and himself a notable fork ; and Acker-mann, the publisher of the Repository, which everyonewho loves the London of the Regency, its buildings andcostumes, in the fairest of all the methods of counterfeitinga citys life, namely copper-plate and aquatint, should know,and if possible possess. And here at the Griffin, opposite the most fantasticallyand romantically conceived Law Courts in the world — themost astounding assemblage of spires, and turrets, andgables, and cloisters, that ever sprang from one English-mans brain, — we leave the Strand and pass into FleetStreet, or, in other words, into the City of London.
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vl M \KYI K-VI KANl) CIL\PTER X FLEET STREET AND THE LAW Temple Bar—Charles Lamb — The Retired Cit — The Griffin —Printers Ink — An All-night Walk in London — The Temple —Oliver Goldsmith — Lamb Again — Lincolns Inn — Ben Jonson —Lincolns Inn Fields — Old Mansions — Great First Nights — TheSoane Museum — The Dissuasions of Eld — Dr. Johnson — TheCheshire Cheese — St. Dunstans and St. Brides WHEN I first knew London — passing through it onthe way to a northern terminus and thence to school— Temple Bar was still standing. But in 1878 it waspulled down, and with its disappearance old Londonsdoom may be said to have sounded. Since that day thedemoHshers have taken so much courage into their liandsthat now what is old has to be sought out: whereas TempleBar thrust anticpiity and all that was leisurely and obsoleteright into ones notice witli unavoidable em()hasis. Theday on which it was decreed that Fleet Streets traffic mustbe no longer embarrassed

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