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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h portraits of the Duke of Wel-lington, Lords Chesterfield, Douro, and Brougham,Sir E. Landseer, the INIiss Powers, and othermembers of the fashionable circle that gatheredthere. In the foreground, to the right, says adescription of the picture, are the great Dukeand Lady Blessington; in the centre, Sir E. Land-seer, seated, in the act of sketching a fine cow, witha calf by her side ; Count DOrsay himself, withtwo favourite dogs, is seen on the right of thegroup, rand Lord Chesterfield on the left; nearer K:nsingto;i.) LADY BLESSINGTON. 121 the house are the two .Miss Powers (nieces of and Albert Smith and Thackerav, Charles Dickens Lady Blessington), reading a letter, a gentleman and ^Vliliam Jerdan, Mr. iMonckton j\Iilnes Mr walking behind. Further to the left are Lord A. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. N. P. Willis the Coimtess Brougham, Lord Douro, &c., seated under a tree, Guiccioli (Byrons chere ame), Lords Brougham engaged m conversation. Lyndhurst, and Chesterfield, and all theother
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THE HALFWAY HOUSE, KENSINGTON, 1850. Mr. )\Iadden, in his book above quoted, givestis anecdotes of, or letters from, most of the visitors•at Gore House when it was in its prime. ThomasMoore, who sang so touchingly as to unlock thefount of tears in the drawing-room, was oftenthere; so were Horace and James Smith, theauthors of the Rejected Addresses; so was SirHenry Lytton Bulwer and his brother, the lateLord Lytton. Walter Savage Landor would repairthither, with his stern eyebrows and kindly heart;203 celebrities, who, being added up together into onesum, made up, what Joseph Hume would havestyled, the tottle of the whole of the GoreHouse circle. Mr, N. P. Willis thus records anincident during an evening here :— We all satround the piano, and, after two or three songsof Lady Blessingtons choosing, INIoore rambledover the keys awhile, and then sang When first Imet thee, with a pathos that beggars description.When the last word had faltered out. he rose and OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Kens

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