. A wanderer in London. d stranger is not admitted. I hope so. If the sermon is ever too advanced for the visitor (andI seem to remember that now and again it was so in thedays of the gifted Momerie) he will always find the childrenworth study. Boy, said the terrible James Boyer ofChrists Hospital to the youthful Samuel Taylor Coleridge,boy, the school is your father: boy, the school is yourmother . . lets have no more crying. It was not quitetrue of Coleridge, who had a real enough mother in Devon-shire: but it is literally true of the children here. Yetwhen the Communion comes round their re
. A wanderer in London. d stranger is not admitted. I hope so. If the sermon is ever too advanced for the visitor (andI seem to remember that now and again it was so in thedays of the gifted Momerie) he will always find the childrenworth study. Boy, said the terrible James Boyer ofChrists Hospital to the youthful Samuel Taylor Coleridge,boy, the school is your father: boy, the school is yourmother . . lets have no more crying. It was not quitetrue of Coleridge, who had a real enough mother in Devon-shire: but it is literally true of the children here. Yetwhen the Communion comes round their response to thefifth commandment is as hearty as to any other, and asfree from apparent irony. Before the Foundling Hospital was built, in 1739, therewere fields here, and in 1719 a very early cricket matchwas played in them between the Men of Kent and the Menof London for £60. I know not which won. At No. 77Guilford Street, in 1803, lived Sydney Smith. Althoughin the centre of Queen Square, which leads out of Guilford. \ ii;(.i\ wii I nil I) AKTKK IMK TK TIRK IJV IJOITK , IN IMP , <;:HY SCHOLARS HOUSES 219 Street to the west, stands a statue of Queen Charlotte, theenclosure was named after Queen Anne, in whose reignit was built. Many traces of its early state now throng here, where once were gentlemenand scholars: among them Antony Askew, physician andGrecian and the friend of all learning; and Dr. Campbell ofthe Biographia Britannica, whose house Dr. Johnson fre-quented until the shivering fear came upon him that theScotsmen who flocked there might accuse him of borrowinghis good things from their countrjnnen. Another friendof Johnson, Dr. Charles Burney,also hved in Queen a house on the west side, an architect once told me, isstill to be seen a perfect example of an ancient Englishwell. Having no opening into Guilford Street except forfoot passengers. Queen Square remains one of the quietestspots in London, and scholars might
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