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
... 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 that of servitude began to fall early . We find him at the age of twenty- one writing ...
... 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 that of servitude began to fall early . We find him at the age of twenty- one writing ...
Page 159
... later entered the service of the East India House , which was to provide him with a livelihood for the rest of his ... later . later . Mary had Mary had many relapses , and Barry Cornwall has told how , at the approach of one of her fits ...
... later entered the service of the East India House , which was to provide him with a livelihood for the rest of his ... later . later . Mary had Mary had many relapses , and Barry Cornwall has told how , at the approach of one of her fits ...
Page 253
... later I find it waiting outside the hotel . I say to the driver , ' Will you please take me to my committee room ? ' I get into the cab and a few seconds later get out , for the committee room , as you know , is only a few yards along ...
... later I find it waiting outside the hotel . I say to the driver , ' Will you please take me to my committee room ? ' I get into the cab and a few seconds later get out , for the committee room , as you know , is only a few yards along ...
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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