Barn Elms and the Kit Cat Club: Now the Ranelagh Club

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T.W. Tarbet, printer, 1884 - 65 стор.

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Сторінка 41 - Kit-cat ' took its name, Few critics can unriddle : Some say from ' pastrycook ' it came, And some, from ' cat ' and ' fiddle.' 2 From no trim beaux its name it boasts, Gray statesmen, or green wits ; But from this pell-mell pack of toasts Of old ' cats ' and young
Сторінка 23 - Solitude,2 in which I do not find much excess of good matter, though it be pretty for a bye discourse. I walked the length of the Elmes, and with great pleasure saw some gallant ladies and people come with their bottles, and basket, and chairs, and form, to sup under the trees, by the waterside, which was mighty pleasant; so home.
Сторінка 55 - March 1723-4; and an opportunity soon offered of introducing him advantageously to the nobility, &c. from his being desired, by Mr. Pine the engraver, to make the drawings for his prints of the Knights of the Bath, on the revival of that order in 1725. In...
Сторінка 37 - ... itself. The fact is, that on account of its excellence, it was called a Kit-Kat, as we now say —a Sandwich. So, in the Prologue to the REFORMED WIFE...
Сторінка 43 - Fairest and latest of the beauteous race, Blest with your parent's wit, and her first blooming face, Born with our liberties in William's reign, Your eyes alone that liberty restrain.
Сторінка 43 - Wit strive each in vain, To vanquish Bacchus and his train ; But Barton with successful charms, From both their quivers drew her arms, The roving god his sway resigns, And cheerfully submits his vines.
Сторінка 43 - SuNDERLAND. All Nature's charms in Sunderland appear, Bright as her eyes, and as her reason clear : Yet still their force, to men not safely known, Seems undiscover'd to herself alone.
Сторінка 23 - After dinner I by water alone to Westminster to the parish church,1 and there did entertain myself with my perspective glass up and down the church, by which I had the great pleasure of seeing and gazing at a great many very fine women ; and what with that, and sleeping, I passed away the time till sermon was done.
Сторінка 27 - Talbot all along up one of his arms, and Jenkins killed upon the place, and the rest all in a little measure wounded.
Сторінка 25 - Howard, on the other side : and all about my Lady Shrewsbury, who is at this time, and hath for a great while been, a mistress to the Duke of Buckingham.

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