 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...  Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Page 363by Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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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