 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 - Page 7by Alexander Chalmers - 1803Full view - About this book
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 490 pages
...'Will's Coffee-House,' but in the same number he wrote, 'This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams,...every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards.' 2 Child's Coffee-House was in St. Paul's Churchyard, and was the resort of clergymen and doctors, owing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...Taller (April, 1709) says, "This place (Will's coffee-house) is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it, where you used to see Songs, Epigrams, and Satires in the hands of every man, you have now only a pack of cards." c. D. p.] 1. 22. [Convent Garden (now Covent Garden) was so called... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...Taller (April, 1709) says, "This place (Will's coffee-house) is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it, where you used to see Songs, Epigrams, and Satires in the hands of every man, you have now only a pack of cards." o. D. p.] 1. 22. [Convent Garden (now Covent Garden) was so called... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...Speaking of Will's Coffee-house, the Tailer 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... | |
 | Sir Samuel Garth, Wilhelm Josef Leicht - 1905 - 610 pages
...since Mr. Dryden frequented it; where you uaed to see songs, epigrams and saures in the hands of eyery man you met, you have now only a pack of cards, and...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game.' (Sir Roger de Coverley, ed. D. Salmon, London 1904, S. 122.) 21. scan, von Webster erklärt als: to... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...Speaking of Will's Coffeehouse, the Taller 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pages
...Speaking of Will's Coffeehouse, the Tatler 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... | |
 | Henry C. Shelley - 1909 - 496 pages
...Where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of every man you met, you now have only a pack of cards; and instead of the cavils about...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." This is all confirmed by that traveller who took notes in London in 1722, and found there was playing... | |
 | 1913 - 786 pages
...number of the Toiler 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." THE POST, COACHES, AND CONVEYANCES Postage in 1635,... | |
 | Erik Bond - 2007 - 306 pages
...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...the Learned now dispute only about the Truth of the Game.12 Steele's concentration upon the audience's conduct and his nostalgia for Dryden's supposedly... | |
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