Shakespeare's England . GLAND gray turrets of the ancient temple breathesout his requiem. Goldsmith died (1774) at No. 2 Brick Court,Middle Temple. Various plaees in and nearLondon are associated with his name. In 1757-58 he was employed by a chemist, near FishStreet Hill. At the time when he was writ-ing his Inquiry into the Present State ofPolite Learning in Europe he lived in alittle square called Green Arbor Court, overBreak-neck steps, liis lodging being on thetop floor of a three-story house. The build-ings in Green Arbor Court were eventuallyremoved, to clear a site for the Snow Hillsta
Shakespeare's England . GLAND gray turrets of the ancient temple breathesout his requiem. Goldsmith died (1774) at No. 2 Brick Court,Middle Temple. Various plaees in and nearLondon are associated with his name. In 1757-58 he was employed by a chemist, near FishStreet Hill. At the time when he was writ-ing his Inquiry into the Present State ofPolite Learning in Europe he lived in alittle square called Green Arbor Court, overBreak-neck steps, liis lodging being on thetop floor of a three-story house. The build-ings in Green Arbor Court were eventuallyremoved, to clear a site for the Snow Hillstation of the London, Chatham, and DoverRailroad. While he was writing The Vicarof Wakefield he dwelt at a lodging in WineOffice Court. Fleet Street. Later he occu-pied a lodging at Canonbury House, Isling-ton,—in his time a rural region, but thicklysettled now. In 1704) he resided in rooms inthe Library Staircase of the Inner Temple. Still another interesting old church is Danes, in the Strand, attractive to. OLD CHURCHES OF LONDON 129 many travellers because the burial place ofvarious persons notably associated with theStage. There are laid the remains of Wil-liam Mountfort, the actor, Anne Bracegirdleslover, who was murdered by Lord Mohun,in a midnight brawl. Nathaniel Lee, called,in his day, the mad poet, a man of finegenius, found his grave there, as also didGeorge Powell, the tragedian, of brilliant,deplorable memory, and Hildebrand Horden,cut off by the hand of violence, in the spring-time of his youth and promise. Horden wasremarkable for the beauty of his person, andhe seems to have possessed uncommon talentas an actor. He was stabbed to death, ina quarrel, at a tavern called The Rose, andCibber, in his Apology, records that con-temporary feminine interest relative to thehandsome actor was so great that, after hisbody had been laid out for burial, many womencame, some masked and others openly, to viewit, in the shroud. Charles Coffey, the humor-ous, deformed
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