English WitsLeonard Russell Hutchinson, 1940 - 349 pages Essays by several authors on Pope, Johnson, Wilde, Whistler, Smith, Hook, Lamb, Sheridan, Wilkes, Labouchere, Beerbohm, Shaw, "Saki", and Mitford. |
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Page 139
... Hook was to remain poor nearly all his life . This appointment was , in its way , as good a practical joke as the best of Hook's own , and lasted longer . At the end of 1813 the lucky versifier left his debts behind him , took up his ...
... Hook was to remain poor nearly all his life . This appointment was , in its way , as good a practical joke as the best of Hook's own , and lasted longer . At the end of 1813 the lucky versifier left his debts behind him , took up his ...
Page 146
... Hook's Mrs. Ramsbottom , who became the minor despot of the Garrick Club when Hook had been silenced by death , has left in Wagg of " Pendennis " and " Vanity Fair " a caricature in libel - colour of the wit whose ascendancy he would ...
... Hook's Mrs. Ramsbottom , who became the minor despot of the Garrick Club when Hook had been silenced by death , has left in Wagg of " Pendennis " and " Vanity Fair " a caricature in libel - colour of the wit whose ascendancy he would ...
Page 159
... Hook's Mrs. Ramsbottom , who became the minor despot of the Garrick Club when Hook had been silenced by death , has left in Wagg of " Pendennis " and " Vanity Fair " a caricature in libel - colour of the wit whose ascendancy he would ...
... Hook's Mrs. Ramsbottom , who became the minor despot of the Garrick Club when Hook had been silenced by death , has left in Wagg of " Pendennis " and " Vanity Fair " a caricature in libel - colour of the wit whose ascendancy he would ...
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A. J. A. SYMONS admiration amusing artist asked audience Boswell Bute called character Charles Lamb charm Coleridge critic D. B. WYNDHAM LEWIS delightful dinner Dunciad EDITOR enemies England English essays eyes famous father feeling genius give honour Hook's House humour ideas Johnson joke King knew Labouchere Lady Lamb Lamb's later laugh letters libel literary lived London look Lord Lord Byron Mary Mary Russell Mitford mind Mitford nature never North Briton once Oscar Wilde Oxford perhaps person play political poor Pope Pope's reader remark replied Saki satire Shakespeare Shaw Shaw's Sheridan Sherry Smith speech spirit story style Sydney Smith talk tell theatre Theodore Hook thing thought Three Mile Cross tion to-day told took truth Voltaire Whigs Whistler Wilde's Wilkes Wilkes's witty woman word writing wrote young