 This coflee-house is every night crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bon mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature is critically examined, and the merit of every production of...  The British Essayists: Connoisseur - Page xviiiedited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | 1767 - 352 pages
...crouded with men of parts. Almoft every one you meet is a polite fcholar and a wit. Jokes and bon nuts are echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature is critically examined, and the merit of every N°. i. The CONNOISSEUR. 7 every production of the prefs, or performance at the theatres, weighed and... | |
 | 1786 - 782 pages
...crouded with men of parts. Almoft every one vou meet is a polite fcholar and a wit. Jukes and bon mon arc echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature...examined, and the merit of every production of the preis, or performance et the theatres, weighed and determined. This ichool (to which I am myielf indebted... | |
 | 1803 - 234 pages
...night crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bon mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of...my education, and in which, though unworthy, I am novr arrived at the honour of being a public lecturer) has bred up many authors, to the amazing entertainment... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 320 pages
...crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bans mots are echoed from box to box : every branch of...of every production of the press, or performance at tiie theatres, weighed and determined. This school (to which I am myself indebted for a great part... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 442 pages
...crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bons mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of...a great part of my education, and in which, though unworthily, I am now arrived at the honour of being a public lecturer, has bred up many author?, to... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and hon-mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature...merit of every production of the press or performance of the theatres, weighed and determined." GARRICK AND FOOTE. Frequent and sharp were the encounters... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 902 pages
...yon meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bon-moti are echoed from hox to box : every hranch of literature is critically examined, and the merit of every production of the press, or performance of the theatres, weighed and determined." Foote and Garrick often met here. Garrick, in early life,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pages
...crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bon-mots are echoed from box to box : every branch of literature...merit of every production of the press, or performance of the theatres, weighed and determined." And in the above-named " Memoirs," we read that " this spot... | |
 | 1872 - 680 pages
...Thornton describes the house as every night crowded with men of parts. He says, " Jokes and bun-mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature...merit of every production of the press or performance of the theatre weighed and determined." Conversation had not yet become a lost art. In 1765, Murphy,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pages
...crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bon-mots are echoed from box to box : every branch of literature...merit of every production of the press, or performance of the theatres, weighed and determined." • And in the above-named " Memoirs," we read that " this... | |
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