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 CHAPTER VI LITERATURE AND GOSSIP IN THE LAST CENTURY

I was so popular a resort for society under Anne and the Georges, that the difficulty in writing of its literary souvenirs is rather to exclude than to illustrate. Jimmy Thomson brings in the Palace as the climax of his enthusiastic rhapsody on the Thames:—

"In lovely contrast to this glorious view,

Calmly magnificent,then will we turn

To where the silver Thames first rural grows.

There let the feasted eye unwearied stay;

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