The Wits and Beaux of SocietyBoD – Books on Demand, 2023 M04 10 - 560 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost. |
Contents
Signs of the Restoration Samuel Pepys in his Glory A_Royal Company | 1 |
COUNT DE GRAMMONT ST EVREMOND | 41 |
BEAU FIELDING | 80 |
OF CERTAIN CLUBS AND CLUBWITS UNDER | 91 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE | 99 |
When and where was be born?The Middle Temple Congreve finds | 106 |
BEAU NASH | 127 |
PHILIP DUKE OF WHARTON | 148 |
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT | 253 |
HORACE WALPOLE | 263 |
GEORGE SELWYN | 270 |
A Love of Horrors Anecdotes of Selwyns Mother Selwyns Collere Daya Orator Healey Selwyns Blasphemous Freak The Profession | 322 |
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN | 344 |
Two popular Sciences Buck Brummell at Eton Investing his Capital | 400 |
The Greatest of Modern Wits What Coleridge said of Hook Hooks Family | 425 |
The Wise Wit Oddities of the Father Versemaking at Winchester | 455 |
LORD HERVEY | 170 |
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE FOURTH EARL | 210 |
An Eastern Allegory Who comes Here?A Mad Freak and its Consequences | 235 |
GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON LORD MELCOMBE | 493 |
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