The book of the Cheese, being traits and stories of "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine office court, Fleet street, London . s Ufe. The house was demolished soon afterhis death. In fact there is only one house—No. 17Gough Square—on which we can look and say, Here dwelt Dr. Johnson. 56 Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Gough Square itself has undergone inevitablealteration, but fortunately for the devotee, at thewestern end the Doctors house, No. 17, still standsintact. Here his wife died in 1752, and here he com-pleted his Dictionary in 1755. In his note book for1831, Carlyle mentions having paid a visit to
The book of the Cheese, being traits and stories of "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine office court, Fleet street, London . s Ufe. The house was demolished soon afterhis death. In fact there is only one house—No. 17Gough Square—on which we can look and say, Here dwelt Dr. Johnson. 56 Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Gough Square itself has undergone inevitablealteration, but fortunately for the devotee, at thewestern end the Doctors house, No. 17, still standsintact. Here his wife died in 1752, and here he com-pleted his Dictionary in 1755. In his note book for1831, Carlyle mentions having paid a visit to the houseand interviewed the occupant, who was apparentlyunder the impression that his illustrious predecessorin the tenancy had been a schoolmaster. So he hadbeen, and one of his pupils, a pupil of whom anymaster might have been proud, was David the tenant knew not that schoolmastering hadlong been abandoned when the Doctor was compilinghis Dictionary in that by no means majestic the right-hand side of the doorway the Societyof Arts has placed a plaque with the following in-scription :—. CHAPTER IX THE CHEESE AND ITS FARE—A GREAT FALLIN PUDDING decouverte dun mets nouveau fait plus pour It bonheuv du genrehumain que la decouverte dune etoile.—Brillat-Savarin. If, as Brillat-Savarin says, the discovery of a new dishdoes more for the happiness of mankind than the dis-covery of a star, how much more deserving of humangratitude is the discoverer of the Cheese puddingthan a Herschel or an Adams ? The S-portsman of March 30, 1887, has a long andeulogistic article on the Cheese, but exigencies ofspace preclude its being quoted in its entirety. Thewriter says: Happily the most famous of Londonancient taverns is left to us in the Old CheshireCheese, which is yet nightly haunted by the shadeof Dr. Johnson, whose modern prototypes still enjoytheir steaks and punch, and discuss politics, polemics,and plays, though they wear short hair and mashe
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