 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
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 pages
...determined to struggle hard for our author : we accordingly assembled our strength at the Shakespear Tavern in a considerable body for an early dinner,...where Samuel Johnson took the chair at the head of along table, and was the life and soul of the corps : the poet took post silently by his side with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pages
...its triumphant success, are amusingly told by Cumberland in his memoirs. "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 in... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1894 - 250 pages
...story with the irresistible verve of falsehood — of the early dinner at the ' Shakespeare Tavern, ' where Samuel Johnson took the chair at the head of...long table, and was the life and soul of the corps'; of the guests assembled, including Fitzherbert (who had committed suicide at an earlier date), of the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 468 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,...silently by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Keynolds, Fitzherbert, Caleb Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British, predetermined applauders,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 360 pages
...story with the irresistible verve of falsehood—of the early dinner at the ' Shakespeare Tavern,' ' where Samuel Johnson took ' the chair at the head...table, and was the life ' and soul of the corps'; of the guests assembled, including Fitzherbert (who had committed suicide at an earlier date), of the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 446 pages
...Cumberland in his memoirs. -'We were not over sanguine of success, but perfectly determined to stmggle hard for our author. We accordingly assembled our...Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Mills, — all good men and true. Our illustrious president was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pages
...confederation, and of its triumphant success, are amusingly told by Cumberland in his memoirs. 15 " We were not over-sanguine of success, but perfectly...the head of a long table, and was the life and soul 20 of the corps ; the poet took post silently by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fitzherbert,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1909 - 440 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, where Samuel Johnson took the chuir at the head of a long table, and was the life and soul of the corps : the poet took post silently... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 pages
...story with the irresistible verve of falsehood—of the early dinner at the " Shakespeare Tavern," " where Samuel Johnson took the chair at the head of...long table, and was the life and soul of the corps"; of the guests assembled, including Fitzherbert (who had committed suicide at an earlier date), of the... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 pages
...story with the irresistible verve of falsehood — of the early dinner at the " Shakespeare Tavern," " where Samuel Johnson took the chair at the head of...long table, and was the life and soul of the corps"; of the guests assembled, including Fitzherbert (who had committed suicide at an earlier date), of the... | |
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