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 - Página 7de Alexander Chalmers - 1803Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 páginas
...the " Tatler," it is 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. Into these places of public resort the lowest sharpers... | |
| 1869 - 786 páginas
...favour of dress and sound. The place is very mnch altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it. Where yon used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of every man you met, you hare now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance... | |
| John Albion Andrew - 1867 - 162 páginas
..." Tatler," it is 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. Into these places of public resort the lowest sharpers... | |
| John Albion Andrew - 1867 - 166 páginas
...said of Will's Coffee House: "This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it. . J 60 Where you use.d to see songs, epigrams and satires, in the hands of every one you met, you have now only a pack of cards. Into these places of public resort the lowest sharpers... | |
| John Timbs - 1868 - 902 páginas
...under the article of Will's Coffee-house. The place, however, changed after Dryden's time. "You nsed to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of...have now only a pack of cards; and instead of the • Will's Coffee-house first had the title of the Red Cow (says Sir Walter Scott), then of the Rose,... | |
| John Timbs - 1868 - 896 páginas
...believe, is the same house alluded to in the pleasant story in the second number of the Tatltr :— raril* about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the !oan:«l now dispute only about the truth of the game." The S/ieclator is sometimes *.n " thrusting... | |
| 1869 - 852 páginas
...Bracegirdle. She lived till be)ond eighty, surviving to praise Garrick. very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it. Where you used to see songs, epigrams,...and the like, the learned now dispute only about the trick of the game." In 1701 Betterton played, at Lincoln's Inn Fields, Bassauio in Granville's version... | |
| Belgravia - 1869 - 776 páginas
...notwithstanding the late apostasy in favour of dress and sound. The place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it. Where you used to see songs, epigrams,...and the like, the learned now dispute only about the trick of the game:' In 1701 Betterton played, at Lincoln's-inn-fields, Bassanio in Granville's version... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1871 - 370 páginas
...it is the Taller himself who tells us that "Will's" is very much changed from what it used to be — "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." About the same time we find complaints that the English... | |
| 1871 - 366 páginas
...is the Taller himself who tells us that "- Will's" is very much changed from what it used to be — "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." About the same time we find complaints that the English... | |
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