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 152
... house , became a clerk in the South Sea House at the age of sixteen , and about a year later entered the service of the East India House , which was to provide him with a livelihood for the rest of his existence . Shadows worse than ...
... house , became a clerk in the South Sea House at the age of sixteen , and about a year later entered the service of the East India House , which was to provide him with a livelihood for the rest of his existence . Shadows worse than ...
Page 159
... house , became a clerk in the South Sea House at the age of sixteen , and about a year later entered the service of the East India House , which was to provide him with a livelihood for the rest of his existence . Shadows worse than ...
... house , became a clerk in the South Sea House at the age of sixteen , and about a year later entered the service of the East India House , which was to provide him with a livelihood for the rest of his existence . Shadows worse than ...
Page 184
... House crying , " Sir , the house is on fire " ) " Bring another bottle of claret : it's not my house " ; and his attempt to escape the old maid who said it had cleared up enough for a walk : “ It has cleared up enough for one , but not ...
... House crying , " Sir , the house is on fire " ) " Bring another bottle of claret : it's not my house " ; and his attempt to escape the old maid who said it had cleared up enough for a walk : “ It has cleared up enough for one , but not ...
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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