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" Craigenputtock, an outlook from the back windows into more leafy regions, with here and there a red highpeaked old roof looking through, and see nothing of London except by day the summits of St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, and by night the... "
Life of Thomas Carlyle - Page 66
by Richard Garnett - 1887 - 186 pages
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Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life ..., Volume 2

James Anthony Froude - Authors, Scottish - 1882 - 518 pages
...bushes brought from Scotland. To his mother, who was curious about the minutest details, he reported — We lie safe at a bend of the river, away from all...house itself is probably the best we have ever lived iu — a right old, strong, roomy brick house, built near 150 years ago, and likely to see three races...
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Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of Life, 1795-1835, Volume 1

James Anthony Froude - Authors, English - 1882 - 812 pages
...minutest details, he reported — We lie safe at a bend of the river, away from all the great roods have air and quiet hardly inferior to Craigenputtock,...by night the gleam of the great Babylon affronting 4Jie peaceful skies. The house itself is probably the best we have ever lived in— a right old, strong,...
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Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of Life, 1795-1835, Volume 1

James Anthony Froude - Authors, English - 1882 - 590 pages
...looking through ; and see nothing of London, except by day the summits of St. Paul's Cathedral arid Westminster Abbey, and by night the gleam of the great...— a right old, strong, roomy brick house, built nearly 150 years ago, and likely to see three races of these modern fashionables fall before it comes...
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Literary Landmarks of London

Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1885 - 384 pages
...roads, have air and quiet hardly inferior to Craigenputtock, an outlook from the back windows into more leafy regions, with here and there a red highpeaked...in,— a right old strong, roomy brick house built nearly one hundred and fifty years ago [written in 1834], and likely to see three races of these modern...
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Literary Landmarks of London

Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1885 - 414 pages
...roads, have air and quiet hardly inferior to Craigenputtock, an outlook from the back windows into more leafy regions, with here and there a red highpeaked...in, — a right old strong, roomy brick house built nearly one hundred and fifty years ago [written in 1834], and likely to see three races of these modern...
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Literary Landmarks of London

Laurence Hutton - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 414 pages
...roads, have air and quiet hardly inferior to Craigenputtock, an outlook from the back windows into more leafy regions, with here and there a red highpeaked...except by day the summits of St. Paul's Cathedral and AVestminster Abbey, and by night the gleam of the great Babylon, affronting the peaceful skies. The...
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1832-1836

Thomas Carlyle - Authors, Scottish - 1888 - 454 pages
...certainly by many degrees the suitablest I could find far or near. . . . We lie safe down in a little bend of the river, away from all the great roads ;...of the great Babylon affronting the peaceful skies. Yet in half an hour (for it is under two miles to Piccadilly) we can be, with a pair of stout legs,...
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Literary Landmarks of London

Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1888 - 392 pages
...roads, have air and quiet hardly inferior to Craigenputtock, an outlook from the back windows into more leafy regions, with here and there a red highpeaked...in, — a right old strong, roomy brick house built nearly one hundred and fifty years ago [written in 1834], and likely to see three races of these modern...
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Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836

Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1888 - 620 pages
...an outlook from the back - windows into mere leafy regions, with here and there a red high - peaked old roof looking through ; and see nothing of London,...of the great Babylon affronting the peaceful skies. Yet in half an hour (for it is under two miles to Piccadilly) we can be, with a pair of stout legs,...
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Literary Landmarks of London

Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1892 - 550 pages
...Craigenpnttock, an outlook from the back windows into more leafy regions, with here and there a red highl>eaked old roof looking through, and see nothing of London...in, — a right old strong, roomy brick house built nearly one hundred and fifty years ago [written in 1834], and likely to see three races of these modern...
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