Ninety years ago, one of the pleasantest houses near London, for the society that gathered within it, was Mr., or rather, Mrs. Thrale's, at Streatham Park.

His temperament was morbidly sensitive; and when, in 1821, while acting in London, Theodore Hook attacked him in the most cruel and offensive manner in the columns of the "John Bull," he threw up his engagement, determined to act no more in London, and for a time left the stage.

He had been for some time an admired public singer in London and Paris.

After a residence abroad of two years and a half, she and her husband returned to London in March, 1787.

On first reaching London, "we drove," she writes in the Conway MSS., "to the Royal Hotel in Pall Mall, and, arriving early, I proposed going to the Play.

The summer months sent us about visiting and pleasuring, ... and after another gay London season, Streatham Park, unoccupied by tenants, called us as if really home.

" After two or three years spent in London, the Piozzis resided for some time at Streatham,how changed in mistress and in guests from the Streatham of which Mrs. Thrale had been the presiding genius!

"During many years," it is there said, "Viscountess Keith held a distinguished position in the highest circles of the fashionable world in London; but during the latter portion of her life....

The determination of the man disguised his real condition from everybody but himself, but I saw that the exhausting journey over the boulders and débris had been too much for his London limbs.

I did not know where to write to Dr. Bryerly, to whom I had promised the key, but in accordance with my father's written directions, his death was forthwith published in the principal London papers.

As Uncle Silas had directed, I wrote to Cousin Monica from London.

When I arrived in London with the glorious news of the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, the kind and gracious notice of the prince obtained me attentions on all sides.

At last I obtained the Prince Regent's permission to leave London, and a few mornings after landed in Cork.

The river which runs through London is called the Thames.

[Footnote 5: Pennant's London, p. 120, 4to.

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"We went to London and I was made welcome in the older FitzHugh's wifeless home, and the papers told of our wedding.

"His father died, and for a time Mortimer FitzHugh became one of the talked-about spendthrifts of London.

A year later I learned that Mortimer FitzHugh had gone to America, and I returned to London.

a hundred, for the dearest and best Havana cigars, London size.

Fancy Londonderry House going to the London police-office to get permission for a quadrille or a concert.

If such a salutary law existed in London, pigs' brains would fall in the market, and I should not see so many milk-pails at the spring during my early morning walks to the Serpentine.

"I was in London when the flare-up came, an' bein' interested in business I didn't ball up my intellect with politics an' newspaper war talk.

My copy is of the seventh edition, London, printed for Henry Lintot, 1746.

John Gay's London.