MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
[2 of Vol. 54. 
No. 372.] SEPTEMBER 1, 1822. 
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FRANCE. LANE, 
THE forms of these narrow and érue Poet’s Houses have precluded us from giving 
them in separate engravings. Mu.ron’s residence in Petty-France is recorded by all 
his biographers, and the fact is confirmed by a stone tablet in front of the house, bearing 
the inscription, “‘ Sacred to Milton.” Deryben’s residence in Fetter-Lane is also re- 
corded in many literary anecdotes of his time; but the fact is unknown on the premises, 
now a picture-frame maker's. In Dryden's time, the house and vicinity were 
newly built, and Fetter-lane was donbtless a genteel neighbourhood; but Fleur-de-lis- 
court, of which it is the corner, is at present one of those receptacles of dirt and disease, 
which, if the metropolis were under a proper cleansing police, would be lime-washed 
inside and outside at least once a-year. ‘The Lyon’s-Head and the carving of the frieze 
are still curious, and prove that, in the days of the Poet, it was a genteel, though small 
MILTON’S HOUSE IN PETTY | DRYDEN’S HOUSE IN FETTER 
premises, 
For the Monthly Magazine. expanse, reflecting the rays of the set- 
A MUSICAL AMATEUR’S TRIP ¢o PARIS. 
E arrived at Dover about seven 
o’clock in the evening of one 
of the hottest days I ever felt. We 
were soon invited, by the freshness of 
the sea-breeze, to walk upon the Pier; 
not a ripple played upon the water, 
and the distant vessels, with their sails 
set, appeared like gems in the wide 
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ting sun. 
In the morning, we were on-board 
the steam-vessel by eight o’clock, and 
heard the murmurs of the old packet- 
men, who are ruined by this invention. 
As soon as our machinery was in mo- 
tion, we shot out of the harbour at the 
rate of eight miles an hour, in, what 
the captain called, as fine a steam 
morning 
