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... George Selwyn , writes : " There is now opened at Almack's , in three very elegant new - built rooms , a ten - guinea subscription , for which you have a ball and supper once a week , for twelve weeks . You may imagine by the sum the ...
... George Selwyn , writes : " There is now opened at Almack's , in three very elegant new - built rooms , a ten - guinea subscription , for which you have a ball and supper once a week , for twelve weeks . You may imagine by the sum the ...
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... George Selwyn , May 18 , 1779 , " we are all beggars at Brookes's , and he threatens to leave the house , as it yields him no profit . " Mr. Cunningham tells us that Brookes retired from the Club soon after it was built , and died poor ...
... George Selwyn , May 18 , 1779 , " we are all beggars at Brookes's , and he threatens to leave the house , as it yields him no profit . " Mr. Cunningham tells us that Brookes retired from the Club soon after it was built , and died poor ...
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... George Selwyn kept bank . A friend , who knew my inexperience , and regarded me as a victim decked out for sacrifice , called to me , ' What , Wilberforce , is that you ? ' Selwyn quite resented the interference , and , turning to him ...
... George Selwyn kept bank . A friend , who knew my inexperience , and regarded me as a victim decked out for sacrifice , called to me , ' What , Wilberforce , is that you ? ' Selwyn quite resented the interference , and , turning to him ...
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... . James's Street . ( Tory . ) ( The Modern Building by Wyatt , 1851. ) Brookes ' ( Whig ) and White's ( Tory ) Clubs , 1796 . ( The Artist's perspective is slightly faulty . ) enormously fat ; George Selwyn said he was in the.
... . James's Street . ( Tory . ) ( The Modern Building by Wyatt , 1851. ) Brookes ' ( Whig ) and White's ( Tory ) Clubs , 1796 . ( The Artist's perspective is slightly faulty . ) enormously fat ; George Selwyn said he was in the.
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... George Selwyn ; " so far from ruining him , they will make poor Mackie's fortune ; for he will have the credit of having the finest pickles in London . " The ruling passion of Fox was partly owing to the lax training of his father , who ...
... George Selwyn ; " so far from ruining him , they will make poor Mackie's fortune ; for he will have the credit of having the finest pickles in London . " The ruling passion of Fox was partly owing to the lax training of his father , who ...
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Сторінка 186 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Сторінка 353 - I do not know that I meet in any of my walks, objects which move both my spleen and laughter so effectually, as those young fellows at the Grecian, Squire's, Searle's, and all other coffee-houses adjacent to the law, who rise early for no other purpose but to publish their laziness.
Сторінка 9 - I saw you; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid I heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Сторінка 179 - Johnson was not the less ready to love Mr. Langton, for his being of a very ancient family; for I have heard him say, with pleasure, "Langton, Sir, has a grant of free warren from Henry the Second; and Cardinal Stephen Langton, in King John's reign, was of this family.
Сторінка 180 - I think I shall be of you." When Sir Joshua mentioned this to Dr. Johnson, he was much displeased with the actor's conceit. "He'll be of us, (said Johnson) How does he know we will permit him? The first Duke in England has no right to hold such language.
Сторінка 422 - Sackville, who was then Lord Buckhurst, with Sir Charles Sedley and Sir Thomas Ogle, got drunk at the Cock in Bow-street by Coventgarden, and, going into the balcony, exposed themselves to the populace in very indecent postures. At last, as they grew warmer, Sedley stood forth naked, and harangued the populace in such profane language, that the public indignation was awakened ; the crowd attempted to force the door, and, being repulsed, drove in the performers with stones, and broke the windows of...
Сторінка 36 - ... him in safety to the playhouse, where, after having marched up the entry in good order, the captain and I went in with him, and seated him betwixt us in the pit. As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend...
Сторінка 6 - MAN is said to be a sociable animal, and, as an instance of it, we may observe, that we take all occasions and pretences of forming ourselves into those little nocturnal assemblies which are commonly known by the name of Clubs.
Сторінка 297 - I know the faces of all the principal politicians within the bills of mortality; and as every coffee-house has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives, I always take care to place myself near him, in order to know his judgment on the present posture of affairs.
Сторінка 278 - The Women's petition against Coffee," 1674, they complained that " it made men as unfruitful as the deserts whence that unhappy berry is said to be brought: that the offspring of our mighty ancestors would dwindle into a succession of apes and pigmies ; and on a domestic message, a husband would stop by the way to drink a couple of cups of coffee.