Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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housein its place. This, ahandsome, solid mansionof choice red brick,with stone facings, v;asbuilt from his own de-signs, and he occupiedit until his death, • It Avas, remarks ^Ir. James Hannay, a dwellingworthy of one who really represented literature inthe great world, and who, planting himself on hisbooks, yet sustained the character of liis professionwith all the dignity of a gentleman. A friend whocalled on him there from Edinburgh, in the summerof 1862, knowing of old his love of the poet ofVenusia, playfully reminded liim what Horace saysof those who, regardless of their death, employthemselves in building houses :— SepulchriImmemor stniis domos. Nay, said he, I am incinor srpulcliri, for thishouse will always let for so many hundreds —men-tioning the sum— a year. Thackeray was alwaysof opinion, that notwithstanding the somewhatcostly proceeding of pulling down and re-erecting,he had achieved the rare result for a privategentleman, of building for himself a house which.
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HENRY Mil b CONDT.IT. regarded as an investment of a portion of hisfortune, left no cause for regret. Islx. John Forster has told us, in his Life ofCharles Dickens, how the latter met Thackerayat the Athenaeum Club, just a week before hisdeath, and shook hands with him at parting, littlethinking that it was for the last time. There hadbeen some estrangement between them since theautumn of 1S58. . . . Thackeray, justly indignantat a published description of himself by a memberof a club to which both he and Dickens belonged(the Garrick), referred the matter to the committee,who decided to expel the writer. Dickens, think-ing expulsion too harsha penalty for an offencethoughtlessly given, and,as far as might be, man-fully atoned for by with-drawal and regret, inter-posed to avert tlie ex-tremity. Thackeray re-sented the interference,and Dickens was justlyhurt at the mannerin which he did so.Neither, adds Air. For-ster, • was wholly in theright, nor was either alto-gether in the wrong.T

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