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CONTENTS
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
Introduction to the subject. The blessings of Water.-
The Poetry of Rivers. - Old London Bridge. - The New
Bridge.-Reminiscences of Southwark.—The Globe Theatre.
-The Bear Garden. - Paris Garden. - Old Houses of the
Nobility.
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CHAPTER II.
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The Temple
Doctors' Commons. - The Fleet Ditch.
Gardens. - Ancient and Modern Templars. Somerset
House and Waterloo Bridge. Romance of Modern Lon-
don. The Savoy Palace. Henry the Eighth's Tourna-
ment and Festival at Durham House. - The Adelphi.-
Whitehall.
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CHAPTER III.
Westminster Bridge. The Houses of Parliament.
Anecdote of James the First. Westminster Abbey.
Lambeth Palace.- Flight of Queen Mary D'Este. - Palaces
and Hovels. Vauxhall Gardens. - Sports at Battersea.
Evans the Astrologer. - Chelsea Hospital. - Reminiscences
of Chelsea. - Battersea. A Song. The River Wandle. -
The Mayor of Garratt. - Putney.- Cardinal Wolsey and
his Fool.
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the Artist.
Hogarth's Epitaph. - English love of Trees
and Flowers. Residence of Joe Miller. — Vanity in Death.
Reminiscences of Mortlake. — Queen Elizabeth and the
Alchymist. Pleasant Controversy between Swift and Part-
ridge. Dirty Brentford. - Anecdote of George II. - Kew
Gardens. Sion House. Isleworth.
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CHAPTER V.
Approach to Richmond. The grave of the poet Thom-
Wit among the Tombstones.
The Battle of the Gnats. View from Richmond Hill. · A
Song by Mallet. Gay, the poet. — Traditions of Ham
House. Eel-pie Island. The Poetical Sawyer.- Anec-
dote of Edmund Kean.
CHAPTER VI.
Twickenham. The Poet's Grave.
Pope's Grotto.
Relics of Genius. - Strawberry Hill.-Etymology and Chro-
nology. The Heart of Paul Whitehead. Swans upon the
Thames. The tragical story of Edwy and Elgiva. — An
odd petition of the inhabitants of Kingston.
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CHAPTER VII.
The Thames at Hampton Court. - The Rape of the Lock.
- Magnificence of Wolsey. The loves of Lord Surrey and
the fair Geraldine.-Royal Inhabitants of Hampton Court.-
The Picture Gallery.-A Cook's Philosophy.-The Maze. 175
CHAPTER VIII.
The River Mole.-Esher and Claremont. - Cobham.
The Trout of Leatherhead.-English Scenery.-The Cellars
of Dorking.
An old custom. - Guildford and the River
Wey. The Mother's Dream.—A story of a Jack.—Newark
Abbey. The amorous Monks; a tradition of the Wey.-A
punning Epitaph.-Return to the Thames.
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CHAPTER IX.
Moulsey Hurst.-Garrick's Villa.-Walton-upon-Thames.
-Lilly the Astrologer.-A Puritan's Sermon.-Oatlands.-
Cowey Stakes.- Shepperton.
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CHAPTER X.
Poets of the Thames.-Burial Place of Henry the Sixth
at Chertsey Abbey.-Retirement of Cowley.-A walk on
Cooper's Hill.-Sir John Denham.-Runnymead and Magna
Charta Island.-London Stone.-Jurisdiction of the Lord
Mayor upon the Thames.- The River Colne.— Reminis-
cences of Milton.
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CHAPTER XI.
Approach to Windsor.-The Ducking of Sir John Falstaff.
-View from the Castle Terrace. William of Wykeham
and his Kidnappers.-Royal Captives in the Castle.-The
Loves of James of Scotland and the Lady Jane Beaufort.-
Imprisonment of the Earl of Surrey.
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CHAPTER XII.
Royal Tombs in St. George's Chapel.-The Persians at
Windsor. -Windsor Forest.-Herne's Oak.-Eton College.
-The Montem. Monkey Island.-The Vicar of Bray.—
The Town of Maidenhead.-Claude Duval.-Cliefden.
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CHAPTER XIII.
Hedsor.-Cookham.-The River Wick.-Great Marlow.
-The Poet Shelley at the Groves of Bisham.-The Rakes
of Medmenham Abbey. Lady Place, Hurley. Lord
Lovelace and the Revolution of 1688.-Hambleton.- Faw-
ley Court. Ancient and Modern Antiques. - Henley.-
The River Kennett.-The ruins of Silchester.-Newbury.
-Donnington Castle and the Poet Chaucer. - Chaucer's
Oak. Caversham. Purley Hall. - Wallingford. - The
poetical Fiction of the Thame and Isis.
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CHAPTER XV.
Abingdon and its Bridge. - Nuneham Courtney. - The
Carfax.-Oxford and its University.
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