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" Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the... "
The British Essayists: The Tatler - Sivu 7
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Club life of London

John Timbs - 1872 - 648 sivua
...promised under the article of Will's Coffee-house. The place, however, changed after Dryden's time : " you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." " In old times, we used to sit upon a play here, after it was acted, but now the entertainment's turned...

Clubs and Club Life in London: With Anecdotes of Its Famous Coffee Houses ...

John Timbs - 1872 - 646 sivua
...promised under the article of Will's Coffee-house. The place, however, changed after Dryden's time : " you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." " In old times, we used to sit upon a play here, after it was acted, but now the entertainment's turned...

Dean Swift. Sir Richard Steele. Samuel Foote. Oliver Goldsmith. The Colmans

John Timbs - 1872 - 434 sivua
...early Totlers, the house is thus described : This place [Will's] is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of «very man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils upon the turn of...

England, Literary and Social, from a German Point of View

Julius Rodenberg - 1875 - 476 sivua
...very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it : where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satyrs, in the hands of every man you met, you have now only...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." And in No. 1C : " We used to sit here in old times in judgment over a game of chess, but the entertainment...

Macaulay, T.B. History; and essay.-[Yonge, C.M.] History of Greece.-[Gibbon ...

Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 sivua
...of the Tatler it is said of Will's coffee-house, " This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it. Where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of every one you met, you have now only a pack of cards." Into these places of public resort the lowest sharpers...

London and elsewhere

Thomas Purnell - 1886 - 160 sivua
...he complains, " since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you us'd to see Songs, Epigrams, and Satyrs in the Hands of every Man you met, you have now only...Learned now dispute only about the Truth of the Game." Still, the most famous men of the time traced their steps to that corner of Bow Street. Dryden had...

Sir Roger de Coverley: Essays from the "Spectator."

Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 sivua
...in No. 1 of the " Tatler " (April 12, 1709), says: "This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams,...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." Child's. Child's Coffee-house, in St. Paul's Church Yard, was much frequented by the clergy, as well...

Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its ..., Nide 3

Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 sivua
...James's Coffee-house.'" The same writer complains that " the place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." Hence probably the truth of such a couplet as this : — " Rail on, ye triflers, who to ' Will's '...

The Highway of Letters and Its Echos of Famous Footsteps

Thomas Archer - 1893 - 560 sivua
...of songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of the visitors there was a pack of cards ; instead of cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned had disputes only about the game. It was in 1710 — the year in which the first number of the " Spectator...

Introduction to English Literature: Including a Number of Classic Works ...

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 sivua
...Speaking of Will's Coffee-house, the Tatlcr says : " This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it. Where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of every one you met, you have now only a pack of cards." Fashionable hours became later ; and a considerable...




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