 Will's coffeehouse, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble ; that is to say, five or six men, who had writ plays, or at least prologues, or had share in a miscellany, came thither, and entertained one another with their trifling...  The St. James's Magazine - Seite 31herausgegeben von - 1762Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 Seiten
...who are content to listen and profess themselves his admirers. And, indeed, the worst conversation crowd that was jostling in with me at the pit- I door of Co Coffee-house, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble : that is to say, five... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889 - 358 Seiten
...Swift singled out as presenting the climax of tiresome talk. " The worst conversation," he says, " I ever remember to have heard in my life was that at Wills's coffee-house, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble ; that is to say,... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 402 Seiten
...the wits of Swift's day as brilliant as is supposed ? He himself says that " the worst conversation I ever remember to have heard in my life was that at Wills' coffee-house, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble.'-' He modern afternoon... | |
 | 1894 - 1096 Seiten
...golden atmosphere with which our fancy invests that chosen resort of the wits. The worst conversation I ever remember to have heard in my life was that at Wills' Coffee-house, where the wits (as they \vere culled) used formerly to assemble — that is to... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1895 - 376 Seiten
...atmosphere with which our fancy invests that chosen resort of the wits: — The worst conversation I ever remember to have heard in my life was that at Wills' Coffee-house, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble — that is to... | |
 | 1894 - 880 Seiten
...golden atmosphere with wfiich our fancy invests that chosen resort of the wits. The worst conversation I ever remember to have heard in my life was that at Wills' Coffee, house, where the wits (as they were culled) used formerly to assemble— that is to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 Seiten
...Sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's.' 'The worst conversation I ever remember to have heard in my life was that at Will's Coffee-house, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble ; that is to say, five... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1906 - 326 Seiten
...those who are content to listen and profess themselves his admirers. And indeed the worst conversation I ever remember to have heard in my life was that at Will's coffee-house, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble: that is to say, five... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 502 Seiten
...who are content to listen, and profess themselves his admirers. And, indeed, the worst conversation I ever remember to have heard in my life, was that at Will's coffeehouse, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble; that is to say, five or... | |
 | Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - 1913 - 614 Seiten
...who are content to listen, and profess themselves his admirers. And, indeed, the worst conversation I ever remember to have heard in my life, was that at Will's coffee-house, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble ; that is to say, five... | |
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