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Title: More about unknown London
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bell, Walter George, 1867-1942
Subjects: London (England) -- Antiquities London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : John Lane New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eeded. Goldsmith furnished his chief apartment withWilton carpet, blue moreen-covered sofa andchairs corresponding, blue moreen curtains,chimney glass, Pembroke and card tables, andtasteful bookshelves. As you stand to-day in theamply proportioned sitting-room, with three longwindows overlooking Essex Court, where the leavesof the trees rustling in the wind fleck the glasspanes with shadow, it is easy to imagine it aswhen he occupied it. Mr H. Hamilton Fox, thepresent occupant of the chambers, has followedthe example of many previous tenants by treatingthem with reverent care. The carvings about thedoor-cases and in the cornice have been coatedwith sombre black, much to their advantage.Once they were picked out, in curious taste, inflorid reds and blues and greens. The literary workshop is believed to have beenthe smaller room looking into Brick Court.Structurally there have been no alterations. Londons distractions interfered with Gold-smiths work, and for spells of serious labour he
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s- 5 OLIVER GOLDSMITHS LAST HOME 151 went into country lodgings.* She Stoops toConquer was written at Hyde, a farm six mileson the Edgware road, to which he often retired.For this reason there is difficulty in saying wherehis manuscripts were produced. He appears tohave written in Brick Court the greater part ofThe Deserted Village, perhaps to-day the mostwidely appreciated of his poems. It was com-menced in 1768, soon after arrival there. Hisyoung lawyer friend and fellow Templar, Cooke,calling when two days progress upon the poemhad been made, found that ten lines (fifth tofourteenth) had been the mornings output; andwhen Cooke entered his chambers Goldsmith readthem aloud— Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every spot would please, How often have I loiterd oer thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm, The shelterd cot, the cultivated farm, The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church

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