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Faulkner, it would seem as if it had been called Scarsdale House before the creation of the title in the Curzon and HoweCurzon families; in which case, it was probably built by the Earl of Scarsdale, whose family name was Leake, the Scarsdale celebrated by Pope and Rowe for his love of the bottle and of Mrs. Bracegirdle.

Each mortal has his pleasure;-none deny
Scarsdale his bottle, Darty his ham-pie.

Darty was Dartineuf, or Dartiquenare, (a famous epicure.)

Do not most fragrant Earl disclaim

Thy bright, thy reputable flame

To Bracegirdle the brown;
But publicly espouse the dame,

And say, G-d-the town.

Earl Leake, by other accounts besides these, does not appear to have been a person whom "Bracegirdle the brown," the charmer of the age, would have thought it any very desirable honour to marry. We hope, therefore, that the more respectable Scarsdales, the Curzons, were always possessors of the house, and that, in displacing the boarding-school, they illustrate, as in greater instances, the injunction of their curious motto, "Let Curzon hold what Curzon held."

The corner, above-mentioned, of Wright's Lane, contains a batch of good old family houses, one of which belonged to Sir Isaac Newton, though it is not known that he ever lived in it. A house in which he did live we shall come to by-and-bye.

The Workhouse to which you arrive in turning by this corner, is a large, hand

HANDSOME WORKHOUSE.

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some, brick building, in the old style beforementioned, possessed of a garden with seats

in it, and looking (upon the old principle of association in such matters) more like a building for a lord than for a set of paupers. Paupers, however, by the help of Christianity, have been discovered, by the wiser portion of their fellow-creatures, to be persons whom it is better to treat kindly than contemptuously; and hence, as new workhouses arise, something is done to rescue the pauper-mind from its worst, most hopeless, and most exasperating sense of degradation, and let it participate some taste of the good consequences of industry and refinement.

CHAPTER XI.

TERRACES

RIDICULOUSLY SO CALLED-LOWER PHILLI

MORE-PLACE AND SHAFTESBURY-HOUSE-WILKIE-HORN

TON-STREET-DR. DIBDIN AND HIS BIBLIOMANIA-A BRIEF COURTSHIP-LEONARD-PLACE AND EARL'S-COURT

RETURNING into the road, we here quit the High Street, and have the Terrace on our left hand, and Lower Phillimore Place on the other side of the way.

Terrace, in this, as in so many other instances in the suburbs, is a ridiculous

word; for the ground is as flat as any around it, and terrace (a mound of earth) implies height and dignity.

"May thy lofty head be crowned,

With many a tower and terrace."

MILTON.

The modern passion for fine names and foreign words "hath a preferment in it." It is one of the consequences of the general rise in society. But people would do well to learn the meanings of the words before they employ them; not to christen young ladies Blanche, who are swarthy; cry "bravo" (brave he) to female singers, instead of "brava ;" nor give the appellation of heights to rows of houses that are on a level with a valley.

In Kensington, Sir David Wilkie, the painter, passed the greater part of his life,