. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. INTERIOR OF ST. MARTINS HALL. maintain, under the Scotch motto, Nemo meimpune lacesset. New Street, which forms the continuation fromKing Street to St. Martins Lane, was a favouriterseort of Dr. Johnson. His first lodgings were atthe house of Mr. Norris, a sta}Tnaker, in ExeterStreet, adjoining Catherine Street, in the dined, said he, very well for eightpence,with very good company, at the Pine Apple, in119—Vol. III. —nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiternothing. In the reign of Charles II. Ne
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. INTERIOR OF ST. MARTINS HALL. maintain, under the Scotch motto, Nemo meimpune lacesset. New Street, which forms the continuation fromKing Street to St. Martins Lane, was a favouriterseort of Dr. Johnson. His first lodgings were atthe house of Mr. Norris, a sta}Tnaker, in ExeterStreet, adjoining Catherine Street, in the dined, said he, very well for eightpence,with very good company, at the Pine Apple, in119—Vol. III. —nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiternothing. In the reign of Charles II. New Streetwas very fashionably inhabited; for, as Mr. PeterCunningham tells us, the Countess of Chesterfield,the lady with whom Van Dyck was in love, occu-pied a house on the south side in 1660. Flaxman,the famous sculptor, was living here in the years1771 and neighbourhood to the east of St. Martins 266 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Covent Garden. Lane up to Long Acre northwards a century agoformed the centre for artists of every class andtheir alU^^s. The great Sir Josh
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