Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-12

wards Standards Road, will remind you
,s ,,o,, look nj the little oricl window OF
XVidyood house, Of the saddest year VI
/ ord Chatham's life; the year when the
Tngiish nations destinies were tfcmbi
;,s, In tbe balance and Chatham shut up
mere IKE a monk at penancc struggled
md praycd TO be physically new and
yboie IL was here that Addison and
he friends passed their summer even.
inys i'm the gardens OF the old BELL and
Bnshn tavern. George Stevens. SlaE.
snrare's noted commentator lived and
died M tho ancient Upper FLASK inn.
Dr Johnson wrote bis VANITY ul Hi-
man Wishes" down there 20 FlDgu5ll, DO
tbe edge Of Hampstead doubtless
qYurrcd TO deepest conception of the
subject oy his giddy wiia who. housed
nj The Wells the ancient Hampstead
Heath spa, constantly quaucllcd with
her physician about having her blonde
tfesscs dyed black.
In the Groves at Highgatc still stands
the housc In which Samuel Taylor Cole.
ridgc lived aud died, Richardson last.
ipyIy connected his memory with the
Heath by lodging his heroine. "Causst
Harlowe" at the Upper FLASK inn. Lord
Mansfield. who once resided 40 Cacn
Wood used to give dinners Co the poor.
10 from four TO five hundred lt5 time,
prc.euting each guest with q half
crown and q quartcIn loaf when dinner
was over" Lord Erskuc once lived
near the Spaniard's inn, and the most
famous historic inn Of The Heath. which
Is sill standing, owes much of It's note
wouhin,ss TO Us oli-umc proprietor
iuyenting the 40 Popcy' or Gordon
rioters. who. after burning Lord Mans
fields house 900 BLOOMSBURY, came 60
destroy his rural seat a. tlgn Wood. loo.
10 his own cellars. where they became su
drunk that the Tcscuiu, troop. drove
Them like sheep down tht Namp
nm. into ircnAcd London Dickens
utiIissdthc incident To- 'Uuluy Eujge.
and Inc also brought the immortal. liCs.
I w.gh 20 Hampstead Ponds 90 pursue his
earnest scientific Investigations.
Indeed goodly volume could be
written upon the WoriHic whose love OF
breezy Hampstead Heath has lgt upon
| it one Of is rarCst and sweetest charms
/ Shelley. Hakht aud HAYDN often met
B here In the cottage of Leigh Hunt IN tho
| Vale of Health. Pope and Murray were
I often seen upon the high road from old
. U,mp.tcad to Highgatr. Ilouscy and
I Barnet Goldsmith found the Heath
[ favorable TO his muse and saunicrc,
much loo H. thickots hol.uws and U5ii,
lanes. Here John Keats lived and her,
he wrote eve Of St Agnes. "Odc &c
the Nightingale, and Endymi1n, a,
he sohbcd ont the closing years OF hi,
life before they took him TO Rome {,
place his ashes near Che pyramid %
Ceslius, The mother OF Iunnyson died
i'm the tine old avenue Of lines, Wei
I Walk. aud when the old Wells wcf,
noted as n Spa, the quality the l.ondot
quality" both OF purse and intellect
locked here to drink tbc waters. tt
gamble and TO nrt Alta later tim,
rhackeray loved 20 study the folk aut
their manners at the Heath DiCkcn,
and Forster used to "muillc thcmsclye,
up" for a brisk walk over ils wiud.swcp
heights and take a "cdhUt chop loI
dinner with glass of good wine" "a
lack Staws Castle, the Spauiards o
other Of i,s fine old inns. And descend
ing llighgale Hin from lauderdalt
house, the glorious truth OF blessc,
nursery rhyme comes home to us whci
We see the very spot now covered 10y
massive memorial stone where sat poo
/ Dick Wilmington as he listened TO Ole
Bow bells which rang him back to hi
city toll TO be made "thugg Lord Mayo
Of London"