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Page vi
... Selwyn's Mother . - Selwyn's College Days . -Orator Henley . - Selwyn's Blasphemous Freak . - The Profession of a Wit . - The Thirst for Hazard . - Reynolds's Conversation - Piece . - Selwyn's Eccentricities and Witticisms . - A most ...
... Selwyn's Mother . - Selwyn's College Days . -Orator Henley . - Selwyn's Blasphemous Freak . - The Profession of a Wit . - The Thirst for Hazard . - Reynolds's Conversation - Piece . - Selwyn's Eccentricities and Witticisms . - A most ...
Page ix
... SELWYN ACKNOWLEDGES THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE ' ... ... ... ... 810 THE FAMOUS LITERARY CLUB ' ... 247 ... 289 338 ... 356 A TREASURE FOR A LADY - SHERIDAN AND THE LAWYER 374 THE BEST THING BEAU BRUMMELL EVER SAID THEODORE HOOK'S ...
... SELWYN ACKNOWLEDGES THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE ' ... ... ... ... 810 THE FAMOUS LITERARY CLUB ' ... 247 ... 289 338 ... 356 A TREASURE FOR A LADY - SHERIDAN AND THE LAWYER 374 THE BEST THING BEAU BRUMMELL EVER SAID THEODORE HOOK'S ...
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... Selwyn and Hook . Of these , and others , table traits , ' and other traits , are here given brief chronicles of their life's stage , over which a cur- tain has so long been dropped , are supplied carefully from well- established ...
... Selwyn and Hook . Of these , and others , table traits , ' and other traits , are here given brief chronicles of their life's stage , over which a cur- tain has so long been dropped , are supplied carefully from well- established ...
Page 92
... Selwyn ; ay , at all time since we have been a nation . The fact is , we are not the most sociable , but the most associative race ; and the establishment of clubs is a proof of it . We cannot , and never could , talk freely , com ...
... Selwyn ; ay , at all time since we have been a nation . The fact is , we are not the most sociable , but the most associative race ; and the establishment of clubs is a proof of it . We cannot , and never could , talk freely , com ...
Page 127
... Selwyn , ' nor under the grandson , either . ' Mankind , as a body , has proved its silliness in a thousand ways , but in none , perhaps , so ludicrously as in its respect for a man's coat . He is not always a fool that knows the value ...
... Selwyn , ' nor under the grandson , either . ' Mankind , as a body , has proved its silliness in a thousand ways , but in none , perhaps , so ludicrously as in its respect for a man's coat . He is not always a fool that knows the value ...
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