 Tavern in a considerable body for an early dinner, where Samuel Johnson took the chair at the head of a long table, and was the life and soul of the corps : the poet took post silently by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fitzherbert, Caleb...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 147edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...determined to struggle hard for our author: we accordingly assembled our strength at the Shakspeare Tavern in a considerable body for an early dinner,...by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fiuherbert, Caleb Whitefoord, and a phalanx ol North British predetermined applaudcrs, under the banner... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...at the Shakespeare Tavern (it is much more likely to have been the St. James's Coffee House), where Johnson took the chair at the head of a long table, ' and was the life 'and soul of the corps'; that though his jokes, and his raillery of Goldsmith, were the better comedy of the two, and much the... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...at the Shakespeare Tavern (it is much more likely to have been the St. James's Coffee House), where Johnson took the chair at the head of a long table, ' and was the life 'and soul of the corps'; that though his jokes, and his raillery of Goldsmith, were the better comedy of the two, and much the... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...at the Shakespeare Tavern (it is much more likely to have been the St. James's Coffee House), where Johnson took the chair at the head of a long table, ' and was the life 'and soul of the corps'; that though his jokes, and his raillery of Goldsmith, were the better comedy of the two, and much the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 pages
...determined to struggle hard for our author. We accordingly assembled our strength at the Shakspeare Tavern, in a considerable body, for an early dinner,...Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British, predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Mills, all good men and true. Our illustrious president was in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...determined to struggle hard for our author. We accordingly assembled our strength at the Shakspeare Tavern, in a considerable body, for an early dinner,...Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British, predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Mills, all good men and true. Our illustrious president was in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...Shakspeare Tavern, in a considerable 14 body, for an early dinner, where Samuel Johnson took the chaii at the head of a long table, and was the life and...Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British, predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Mills, all good men and true. Our illustrious president was in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...determined to struggle hard for our author. We accordingly assembled our strength at the Shakspeare Tavern, in a considerable body, for an early dinner,...Reynolds, Fitzherbert, Caleb Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North'British, predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Mills, all good men and true. Our... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 pages
...his stage to one of the most eccentric productions that ever found its way to it, and ' She Stoops to Conquer ' was put into rehearsal. We were not over-sanguine...Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Neilly, all good men and true. Our illustrious president was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pages
...ever found its way to it, and She Stoops to Conquer was put into rehearsal. We were not over sanguine of success, but perfectly determined to struggle hard...Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Mills, — all good men and true. Our illustrious president was... | |
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