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110 TALLIs's ILLUSTRATED LONDON;
resources of heart and of a loving family, never lost his
placidity or his wit, in spite of losing the American
colonies. Here, Pitt had his heart broken by Napoleon ;
and Fox tasted of power for a short, dropsical time; and
Canning found that the aristocracy would use, but not
obey him."
From Downing-street, King-street, a narrow, incom-
modious thoroughfare, runs into Great George-street.
But, little as there is in its present appearance to
recommend it, little evidence as it gives of past dignity,
King-street, at no very remote era, was one of the most
important and time-honoured streets of Westminster.
Through this street the greater part of our sovereigns,
after the conquest, have proceeded to their coronations at
Westminster; and many of them, at an after period, to
their mausoleums in the Abbey. The street had gates at
both extremities; that at the north being the work of
Holbein, and its name generally was applied to all that
space between it and Charing-cross. The brilliant author
of " The Fairy Queen" lived and died in this street;—his
death was caused, writes Drummond of Hawthornden, by
absolute want of bread; he refused twenty pieces sent
him by the Earl of Essex, and gave this answer to the
person who brought them—" that he was sure he had no
time to spend them.-" Although Spencer was literally
allowed to perish of starvation, his obsequies were attended
by the great and the noble, as if this hollow mockery of
pomp for the dead, could atone for heartless neglect of
the living. Here also resided the poets, Thomas Carew,
and the Earl of Dorset, author of the well-known song,
"To all you ladies now on land." Through this street,
Charles I. was led, on the first and last days of his trial
in Westminster Hall. As he passed through it after his
condemnation, the inhabitants stood at their stalls and
windows, many of them weeping, and, as they looked at
their fallen sovereign, they offered up prayers to the
Throne of Mercy for his safety and eternal welfare.
Cromwell was living in King-street at the time of the
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resources of heart and of a loving family, never lost his
placidity or his wit, in spite of losing the American
colonies. Here, Pitt had his heart broken by Napoleon ;
and Fox tasted of power for a short, dropsical time; and
Canning found that the aristocracy would use, but not
obey him."
From Downing-street, King-street, a narrow, incom-
modious thoroughfare, runs into Great George-street.
But, little as there is in its present appearance to
recommend it, little evidence as it gives of past dignity,
King-street, at no very remote era, was one of the most
important and time-honoured streets of Westminster.
Through this street the greater part of our sovereigns,
after the conquest, have proceeded to their coronations at
Westminster; and many of them, at an after period, to
their mausoleums in the Abbey. The street had gates at
both extremities; that at the north being the work of
Holbein, and its name generally was applied to all that
space between it and Charing-cross. The brilliant author
of " The Fairy Queen" lived and died in this street;—his
death was caused, writes Drummond of Hawthornden, by
absolute want of bread; he refused twenty pieces sent
him by the Earl of Essex, and gave this answer to the
person who brought them—" that he was sure he had no
time to spend them.-" Although Spencer was literally
allowed to perish of starvation, his obsequies were attended
by the great and the noble, as if this hollow mockery of
pomp for the dead, could atone for heartless neglect of
the living. Here also resided the poets, Thomas Carew,
and the Earl of Dorset, author of the well-known song,
"To all you ladies now on land." Through this street,
Charles I. was led, on the first and last days of his trial
in Westminster Hall. As he passed through it after his
condemnation, the inhabitants stood at their stalls and
windows, many of them weeping, and, as they looked at
their fallen sovereign, they offered up prayers to the
Throne of Mercy for his safety and eternal welfare.
Cromwell was living in King-street at the time of the
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