Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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siioi-iuLL. (.Iftt-r Ho(;arth.) SOHO IN THE OLD DAYS. 175
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iiiiiiiiiiiiii)iiyiiiiiii^ 176 OLD AND NEW LONDON. rsoho. vision of carved oak-panelling, of fretted ceilings,of frescoed walls, of inlaid floors. Siinalid as aresome of the tenements, their inhabitants do notneed to dream that they dwell in marble halls. Once on a time, continues the same writer,< even Seven Dials was fashionable; and is not aking buried in St. Annes ? for one Wright, an oil-man in Compton Street, had the body of Theodoreof Corsica interred at his own exi)ense, and HoraceWalpole pointed the moral of the poor Fleetprisoners tale in his well-known epitapli. Hereand there, at tjie corners, a little bit of the quaintstyle now in vogue as Queen Annes allures theunwary passenger into a noisome alley, and Sohocan boast of fully as many smells as Cologne.Tlie paradoxes, in which facts and statistics are sooften connected, may receive another example fromthis densely populated and still more densely per-fumed region, for it has been found that childrensurvive the struggles

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