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Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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reek, round whichlies a malodorous and populous district knownas Little Wappin g, divides it into the Upper andLower Mall; and it is still shaded in parts by tall elms which date from William and Mary,when its bastion-like frontage was also con-structed. There are few houses of note in theLower Mall; but between it and the UpperMall, and next to the Doves public-house(where, by the way, is to be seen one of thelast survivals of the ancient game of bumble-puppy), is a cottage called The Seasons,from which Thomson is supposed to have in-spected the frozen Thames and written partof Winter. In the Upper Mall lived Charlesthe Seconds neglected wife, Catherine of Bra-ganza, and Queen Annes physician, Dr. Rat-cliff. Sussex House was the residence ofMarryat, who filled it with sailor-like hospitalityand farce a la Theodore Hook. But the mostoriginal dweller in the Upper Mall was LouisWeltje, cook to George IV., and owner of thehideous Pavilion on the Steyne at Brighton. 184 A LITERARY RAMBLE.
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CHISWICK HOUSE GATE. He died at Hammersmith, where his imper-turbable Teutonic humor and excellent tableattracted many illustrious visitors. In Angeloschatty reminiscences there is a capital accountof one of these gastronomic symposia, at whichBannister, Munden, and Rowlandson the cari-caturist assisted, and the host mixed sauces,and told stories in his funny German-English. Fon I gote to de fost dumbpike beyondKensington, from town, de goach stobed sometime, fon me say Ged on • fon de dumbpikesay, Sir, dere be nobody on de bokes, etc.The charioteer, in fact, had fallen drunk offhis perch, and was snoring comfortably undera hedge — while there were still hedges be-tween Hammersmith and Kensington. A little beyond the Upper Mall, but withits back to the water, is Hammersmith Ter-race, a quiet, old-fashioned street, not withoutits memories. Here, for a time, lived Murphy,already referred to as buried in Hammer- smith Church, and here, as his dedication toBurke shows, he translated T

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