Shadows of the Old BooksellersBell and Daldy, 1865 - 320 pages |
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... Kit - Cat Club , composed of the Whigs most distinguished as states- men and writers . In a dialogue between Tonson and Congreve , published in 1714 , in a small volume of poems by Rowe , there is a pleasant description of Tonson before ...
... Kit - Cat Club , composed of the Whigs most distinguished as states- men and writers . In a dialogue between Tonson and Congreve , published in 1714 , in a small volume of poems by Rowe , there is a pleasant description of Tonson before ...
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... Kit - Cat Club than the Cat and Fiddle in Shire - lane , or the Fountain in the Strand . Like other clubable men , its members were fond of country excursions . They had occasional meetings at the Upper Flask on Hampstead Heath , but ...
... Kit - Cat Club than the Cat and Fiddle in Shire - lane , or the Fountain in the Strand . Like other clubable men , its members were fond of country excursions . They had occasional meetings at the Upper Flask on Hampstead Heath , but ...
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... Kit - Cat Club , as accustomed to assemble here ; but the oddity of the name excited their ridicule , and I was told that no such Club was held there ; but perhaps , said one to the other , the gentleman means the Club that assembles at ...
... Kit - Cat Club , as accustomed to assemble here ; but the oddity of the name excited their ridicule , and I was told that no such Club was held there ; but perhaps , said one to the other , the gentleman means the Club that assembles at ...
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... Kit - Cat Club are shrouded in the " darkness visible " of the past . Fable and tradition assert their claims to be inter- preters , as in the greater subject of the beginning of nations . Elkanah Settle , whose name has been preserved ...
... Kit - Cat Club are shrouded in the " darkness visible " of the past . Fable and tradition assert their claims to be inter- preters , as in the greater subject of the beginning of nations . Elkanah Settle , whose name has been preserved ...
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... Kit , and his sign being the Cat and Fiddle , they very merrily derived a quaint denomination from puss and her master , and from thence called themselves the Kit - Cat Club . ” Ward goes on to say that the club , having usurped the ...
... Kit , and his sign being the Cat and Fiddle , they very merrily derived a quaint denomination from puss and her master , and from thence called themselves the Kit - Cat Club . ” Ward goes on to say that the club , having usurped the ...
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Page 236 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Page 235 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 103 - now you talk of translators, what is your method of managing them ? ' ' Sir,' replied he, ' these are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, "Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end.
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Page 113 - On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of authors besieged the shop ; entreaties, advices, threats of law and battery, nay cries of treason, were all employed to hinder the coming out of the " Dunciad ; " on the other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it.
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Page 179 - I am guilty, I own, of meannesses which poverty unavoidably brings with it, my reflections are filled with repentance for my imprudence, but not with any remorse for being a villain, that may be a character you unjustly charge me with.
Page 103 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care ? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
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