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... Luttrell ( No. 31 ) , " the great London wit , " as Sir Walter Scott terms him , well known in the circles of literature as the author of many epigrams , and of a volume of graceful poetry , entitled ' Advice to Julia , ' and who died ...
... Luttrell ( No. 31 ) , " the great London wit , " as Sir Walter Scott terms him , well known in the circles of literature as the author of many epigrams , and of a volume of graceful poetry , entitled ' Advice to Julia , ' and who died ...
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... Luttrell , of whom more hereafter , as one of the sources from which he derived a variety of pear , cultivated by him in his garden at Little Chelsea . CHELSEA PARK , on the same side of the way with the Queen's Elm public- house , and ...
... Luttrell , of whom more hereafter , as one of the sources from which he derived a variety of pear , cultivated by him in his garden at Little Chelsea . CHELSEA PARK , on the same side of the way with the Queen's Elm public- house , and ...
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... Luttrell , Esq . , who , as a book - collector , is de- scribed by Dr. Dibdin as " ever ardent in his love of past learning , and not less voracious in his bibliomaniacal appe- tites " than the Duke of Marlborough . Sir Walter Scott ...
... Luttrell , Esq . , who , as a book - collector , is de- scribed by Dr. Dibdin as " ever ardent in his love of past learning , and not less voracious in his bibliomaniacal appe- tites " than the Duke of Marlborough . Sir Walter Scott ...
Page 103
... Luttrell the second in descent . 66 The opening of the eighteenth century , " he observes , " was dis- tinguished by the death of a bibliomaniac of the very first order and celebrity ; of one who had no doubt frequently discoursed ...
... Luttrell the second in descent . 66 The opening of the eighteenth century , " he observes , " was dis- tinguished by the death of a bibliomaniac of the very first order and celebrity ; of one who had no doubt frequently discoursed ...
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... Luttrell the embellishments of the garden of their residence are to be attributed can now be only matter for conjecture , unless some curious autograph - collector's portfolio may by chance contain an old letter or other document to ...
... Luttrell the embellishments of the garden of their residence are to be attributed can now be only matter for conjecture , unless some curious autograph - collector's portfolio may by chance contain an old letter or other document to ...
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Admiral afterwards ancient appears artist Bartolozzi Baylis became Bishop of London Bradshaigh Brompton Grove Brompton Row built called Charles Church Cottage Craven Cottage Crescent Crofton Croker curious death died drawing-room Earl England engraved Faulkner feet formerly Fulham Fields garden gentleman girth Golden Lion ground Grove House Hammersmith Hans Place honourable Hook Kensington King's Road Knightsbridge Lady Lane late letter literary Little Chelsea Lodge London Lord Lord Shaftesbury Luttrell Lysons Madame main Fulham Road mansion memory mentioned Michael's Place Miss Landon Munster House North End occupied Old Brompton opposite Ozias Humphrey painted parish Park Parson's Green portrait present Pryor's Bank public-house published remarkable residence Riego Robert Lowth Rosamond's Bower Royal says Schiavonetti Shaftesbury side Sir John Sir Walter sketch Sloane Street Square stood Street Theodore Hook Thomas Thomas Crofton Croker tion tree Villa Walham Green walk wall widow William
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Page 184 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 244 - THE DESCRIPTION OF AN IRISH FEAST. TRANSLATED ALMOST LITERALLY OUT OF THE ORIGINAL IRISH. 1720. O ROURKE'S noble fare Will ne'er be forgot By those who were there, Or those who were not.
Page 184 - It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath no kinde of traffike, no knowledge of Letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate...
Page 205 - Short ; rather plump than emaciated, notwithstanding his complaints ; about five foot five inches ; fair wig ; lightish cloth coat, all black besides ; one hand generally in his bosom, the other a cane in it, which he leans upon under the skirts of his coat usually, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a support, when attacked by sudden tremors or...
Page 29 - Each home-felt joy that life inherits here; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests, to resign; Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away.
Page 112 - Her lips were red, and one was thin ; Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly ; But Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze, Than on the sun in July.
Page 102 - Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of the most famous Gamesters and celebrated Sharpers in the Reigns of Charles II., James II., William III., and Queen Anne...
Page 34 - In this attic did the muse of LEL dream of and describe music, moonlight, and roses, and "apostrophise loves, memories, hopes, and fears," with how much ultimate appetite for invention or sympathy may be judged from her declaration that, " there is one conclusion at which I have arrived, that a horse in a mill has an easier life than an author. I am fairly fagged out of my life.
Page 33 - I see it now, that homely-looking, almost uncomfortable room, fronting the street, and barely furnished with a simple white bed, at the foot of which was a small, old, oblongshaped, sort of dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed the Attic, No.
Page 102 - This curious collection was made by Narcissus Luttrell, Esq., under whose name the Editor usually quotes it The industrious collector seems to have bought every poetical tract, of whatever merit, which was hawked through the streets in his time, marking carefully the price and date of the purchase. His collection contains the earliest editions of many of our most excellent poems, bound up, according to the order of time, with the lowest trash of Grub Street. It was dispersed on Mr. Luttrell's death...