 We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having .about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house, or rather behind it, and several old trees, walnut and mulberry, of thick foliage. I can sit and read under their shade with as...  Kensington - Page 26by Geraldine Edith Mitton - 1903 - 103 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry George Davis - 1859 - 320 pages
...for his home. He found it, ho says, more salubrious than his house at Clapham; and writes further, " We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house, or rather behind it, and several old trees, walnut... | |
 | Henry M. Wheeler - 1861 - 254 pages
...happy home. He found it, he says, more salubrious than his house at Clapham ; and writes further, " We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house, or rather behind it, and several old trees, walnut... | |
 | John Timbs - East India House (London, England) - 1868 - 902 pages
...conversational mood. — 2'reiia jS At Gore House, Kensington Gore, Mr. Wilberforce resided from 1808 to 1821. He writes : — " We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house, or rather behind it ; and several old trees, walnut... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1892 - 606 pages
...private correspondence ; and in one place he mentions his rus in urbe in the following terms : — " We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having .about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house, or rather behind it, and several old trees, walnut... | |
 | Literature - 1902 - 916 pages
...Wilberforce found this house more salubrious, and perhaps a little livelier, than his house at Glapham. He writes: "We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house or rather behind it, and several old trees, wainut... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1905 - 344 pages
...day, had stood Gore House. Wilberforce had lived there when the author of Vanity Fair was a child. " We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having about three acres of pleasure ground around our dome, or rather behind it, and several old trees, walnut... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - Authors, English - 1909 - 382 pages
...behind. Wilberforce, who emancipated, as his beautiful successor made, slaves, once occupied it, and writes, " We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house, or rather behind it, and several old trees, walnut... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - 1911 - 368 pages
...external claim to charm being the beautiful gardens at the back. William Wilberforce, a previous tenant, writes : — " We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house, or rather behind it, and several old trees, walnut... | |
 | Henry Wheeler - Abolitionists - 2007 - 244 pages
...happy home. He found it, he says, more salubrious than his house at Clapham ; and writes further, " We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house, or rather behind it, and several old trees, walnut... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 pages
...private correspondence ; and in one place he mentions his rus in urbe in the following terms : — "We are just one mile from the turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, having about three acres of pleasure-ground around our house, or rather behind it, and several old trees, walnut... | |
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