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Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one.
'Observe how he talks of me, cries Boswell querulously, 'as quite unknown. No doubt Sir John was 'unclubable, and by Reynolds, Dyer, Percy, and Malone he was detested.
Barrington, and chosen. I believe there are few societies where there is better conversation or more decorum. Several of us resolved to continue it after our great founder was removed by death. Other members were added; and now, above eight years since that loss, we go on happily. BOSWELL. Mr. Croker says 'Johnson had already invented unclubable for Sir J. Hawkins, and refers to a note by Dr.
Richard Bassett nodded rather sullenly. He had not bargained for this rapid publicity. The venerable chief resumed: "We all consider Marsh's conduct unclubable and a thing to be combined against. Wanted an Anti-dog-in-the-manger League. I'll introduce you to the Somerset." "What! do you visit her?" asked Bassett, in some astonishment.
Johnson called him a "very unclubable man," and may perhaps have intended him in the quaint description: "I really believe him to be an honest man at the bottom; though, to be sure, he is rather penurious, and he is somewhat mean; and it must be owned he has some degree of brutality, and is not without a tendency to savageness that cannot well be defended."
And, to be perfectly frank, had the writer been a Centurion of that period, and had the name of Edgar Allan Poe come up for election, he might have been one of the first to drop a black pill in the box, loudly acclaiming the genius, but deploring the impossible and unclubable personality. After the presidency of Bancroft came that of Bryant.
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