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Chapter III: Fleet Street

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Burning of the Pope -- St. Bride's Steeple -- Milton --
Illuminated Clock -- Melancholy End of Lovelace the Cavalier --
Chatterton -- Generosity of Hardham, of Snuff Celebrity --
Theatre in Dorset Garden -- Richardson, his Habits and
Character -- Whitefriars, or Alsatia -- The Temple -- Its
Monuments, Garden, &c. -- Eminent names connected with it --
Goldsmith dies there -- Boswell's first Visit there to Johnson
-- Johnson and Madame de Boufflers -- Bernard Lintot -- Ben
Jonson's Devil Tavern -- Other Coffee-houses and Shops --
Goldsmith and Temple-bar -- Shire Lane, Bickerstaff, and the
Deputation from the Country -- The Kit-Kat Club -- Mrs. Salmon
-- Isaac Walton -- Cowley -- Chancery Lane, Lord Strafford, and
Ben Jonson -- Serjeant's Inn -- Clifford's Inn -- The Rolls --
Sir Joseph Jekyll -- Church of St. Dunstan in the West --
Dryden's House in Fetter Lane -- Johnson, the Genius Loci of
Fleet Street -- His Way of Life -- His Residence in Gough
Square, Johnson's Court, and Bolt Court -- Various Anecdotes of
him connected with Fleet Street, and with his favourite Tavern,
the Mitre 84

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