. Vanishing England . (£ V .:, i j. : HB SdJTU ^jU/^S, itll HkS; iJP rf j| \mm\XJf-- ^N#- \\\r ? \ )\ • \0^ric%^ Jr 1&&1 i Jr. ? j I /\ i I I 71- II)1! I l!!irn!^SL— !PD1 i I i \ v .Xrc^-/ ?^??mr. t ?*-.^g^i J,) .- ? .vM il BI > , ?• v%-- ^fl)????V v> >.,^.^—,vl:; lL=_J —l~J =rh=»—1—1 — i 1,1 [ i > j. / I E (UID 234 VANISHING ENGLAND The literature of England abounds in references tothese ancient inns. If Dr. Johnson, Addison, and Gold-smith were alive now, we should find them chattingtogether at the Authors Club, or the Savage, or theAthenaeum. There were no literary clubs
. Vanishing England . (£ V .:, i j. : HB SdJTU ^jU/^S, itll HkS; iJP rf j| \mm\XJf-- ^N#- \\\r ? \ )\ • \0^ric%^ Jr 1&&1 i Jr. ? j I /\ i I I 71- II)1! I l!!irn!^SL— !PD1 i I i \ v .Xrc^-/ ?^??mr. t ?*-.^g^i J,) .- ? .vM il BI > , ?• v%-- ^fl)????V v> >.,^.^—,vl:; lL=_J —l~J =rh=»—1—1 — i 1,1 [ i > j. / I E (UID 234 VANISHING ENGLAND The literature of England abounds in references tothese ancient inns. If Dr. Johnson, Addison, and Gold-smith were alive now, we should find them chattingtogether at the Authors Club, or the Savage, or theAthenaeum. There were no literary clubs in their days,and the public parlours of the Cock Tavern or theCheshire Cheese were their clubs, wherein they werequite as happy, if not quite so luxuriously housed, as ifthey had been members of a modern social has not sung in praise of inns? Longfellow, in hisHyperion, makes Flemming say : He who has not beenat a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holytavern ! O miraculous tavern ! Holy, because no carkingcares are there, nor weariness, nor pain ; and miraculous,because of the spits which of themselves turned roundand round. They appealed strongly to WashingtonIrving, who, when recording his visit to the shrine ofShakespeare, says : To a homeless man, who has nospot on this wide world wh
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