 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
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...at the Shakspeare-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 own jokes, and his raillery of Goldsmith, were a better comedy, and much more attractive,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 pages
...determined to struggle hard for our author. We accordingly assembled our strength at die Shiiksueare Tavern, in a considerable body, for an early dinner, where Samuel Johnson took the choir at the head of a long table, and was the life and soul of the corps : the poet took post silently... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 406 pages
...187 mined 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... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 424 pages
...187 mined 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... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 414 pages
...Irving. mined to struggle hard for our author : we accordingly assembled our strength at the Shakspeare Tavern in a considerable body for an early dinner,...silently by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Key nolds, Fitzherbert, Caleb Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British predetermined applauders,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 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 - 1861 - 416 pages
...Shakspeare Tavern, in a considerable 14 body, for an early dinner, where Samuel Johnson took the chah at the head of a long table, and was the life and...silently by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Eeynolds, Fitzherbert, Caleb "Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British, predetermined applauders,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...determined to struggle hard for our author. We accordinglyassembled 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 - 1864 - 464 pages
...determined to struggle hard for OUT 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... | |
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