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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis ... - Page 270
by David Hughson - 1808
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of Poet and Saint. s He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of fioi-t and saint. He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who? when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham...
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The Environs of London: pt. 2. Hornsey-Wilsdon

Daniel Lysons - London (England) - 1811 - 512 pages
...was very often vifited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of " fadion and debates, ufed to find at Wickham, books and quiet, a decent " table, and literary converfation. There is at Wickham a walk made by Pitt ; " and what is of far more importance, at Wickham...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 31

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 496 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of poet and saint. He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and dehates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing ..., Volume 2

John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 788 pages
...from Oxford, by diploma, the degree of LL. D. March SO, 1748. He was very often visited by Liyttelton and Pitt ; who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literaiy conversation. Mr. Upton's " letter...
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The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: With Some of the Letters of ..., Volume 3

Elizabeth Robinson Montagu - English letters - 1813 - 354 pages
...evening. I am, &c. Sec. ELIZ. MONTAGU. (J^- Dr. Johnson, in his Life of Gilbert West, says, « he was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 410 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of Poet and Saint. He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 31

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of poet and saint. He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and dehates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There...
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The History and Antiquities of Croydon ...: To which is Added a Sketch of ...

David William Garrow - Croydon (London, England) - 1818 - 444 pages
...piety." In this agreeable retreat, " he was very often visited (continues his Biographer) " by Littleton and Pitt, who when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wick liam to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham...
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The History and Antiquities of Croydon, with a Variety of Other Interesting ...

David William Garrow - Canterbury (England) - 1818 - 452 pages
...piety." In this agreeable retreat, " he was very often visited (continues his Biographer) " by Littleton and Pitt, who when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to iind books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham...
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