. The century illustrated monthly magazine . speaks of remarkable in-ternal decorations, palm-tree columns, and soforth; but its chief interest to me lies inthe fact that it was once tenanted by Bulwer,who wrote some of his novels in it. Look- Barn Elms was the poet Abraham Cowley,seeking in 1663 that little Zoar in thecountry which seems always the dream of thetown-dweller. He did not find it, of course,—who does ? The small House and largeGarden of his aspirations was but hired;the air disagreed with him; his tenants cheatedhim; his neighbors put their cattle in his pas-tures. Moreover, the
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . speaks of remarkable in-ternal decorations, palm-tree columns, and soforth; but its chief interest to me lies inthe fact that it was once tenanted by Bulwer,who wrote some of his novels in it. Look- Barn Elms was the poet Abraham Cowley,seeking in 1663 that little Zoar in thecountry which seems always the dream of thetown-dweller. He did not find it, of course,—who does ? The small House and largeGarden of his aspirations was but hired;the air disagreed with him; his tenants cheatedhim; his neighbors put their cattle in his pas-tures. Moreover, the spot that he had takenfor an hermitage was a favorite resort ofcockney pleasure-seekers. Garrulous Mr. Sam-uel Pepys, sailing in his boat as far as BarnElms and fortifying himself by reading ofMr. Evelyns late new book against solitude,sees with admiration gallant ladies and peoplecome with their bottles, and basket, and chairs,and form, to sup under the trees by the water-side. All this must have been fatal to alma A LITERARY RAMBLE. 181. BARNES RAILROAD BRIDGE. Quies and her votary, who moved not longafterwards to Chertsey, where he died. There are barges with dead-leaf sails —such barges as Whistler used to delight inbefore he took to symphonies and nocturnes —unloading slates in front of the Crab-Tree Innwhen I reach it. The name of the little ale-house is a misnomer now, for the old tree with seats in the branches, which T so wellremember, has gone the way of trees and before long this peaceful angle ofthe earth also, from which so many seasonshave seen Up the imperial stream flash the imperious eights,as the Collins-cum-Cayley line has it, will be
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