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Johnson had, in the month of December 1783, formed a sixpenny club at an ale-house in Essex-street, and that though some of the persons thereof were persons of note, strangers, under restrictions, for three pence each night might three nights in a week hear him talk and partake of his conversation.
So soon did those pecuniary difficulties, by which his peace and character were afterwards undermined, begin their operations. Yet even into transactions of this nature, little as they are akin to mirth, the following letter of Richardson will show that these brother wits contrived to infuse a portion of gaiety: "DEAR SHERIDAN, "Essex-Street, Saturday evening.
Thrale's. 'DEAR SIR, It is inconvenient to me to come out, I should else have waited on you with an account of a little evening Club which we are establishing in Essex-street, in the Strand, and of which you are desired to be one. It will be held at the Essex Head, now kept by an old servant of Thrale's. The company is numerous, and, as you will see by the list, miscellaneous.
Sir John Hawkins has mentioned the cordiality with which he insisted that such of the members of the old club in Ivy-lane as survived, should meet again and dine together, which they did, twice at a tavern and once at his house : and in order to insure himself society in the evening for three days in the week , he instituted a club at the Essex Head, in Essex-street, then kept by Samuel Greaves, an old servant of Mr.
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Sir John Hawkins has mentioned the cordiality with which he insisted that such of the members of the old club in Ivy-lane as survived, should meet again and dine together, which they did, twice at a tavern and once at his house: and in order to insure himself society in the evening for three days in the week, he instituted a club at the Essex Head, in Essex-street, then kept by Samuel Greaves, an old servant of Mr.
If these are prosaic, they may depend upon it they have not much to expect in a creative way from their artificial ones. What dreams must not Spenser have had!" London Magazine, June, 1821. At that point of life. Lamb was forty-six on February 10, 1821. I had an aunt. The chapel in Essex-street. The headquarters of "that heresy," Unitarianism.
* The Development of Theology as Illustrated in English Poetry from 1780 to 1830. By Stopf ord A. Brooke. London: Green, Essex-street. Unitarianism has had wealth and learning on its side for several generations, it has also enjoyed the services of some men of singular ability, yet it has signally failed to make an impression upon the general public. In all probability it ever will fail.
There is another letter, about the same date, still more characteristic, where, after beginning in evident anger and distress of mind, the writer breaks off, as if irresistibly, into the old strain of playfulness and good humor. "Wednesday, Essex-Street, July 30. "I write to you with more unpleasant feelings than I ever did in my life.
Johnson protest that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall-fruit, except once in his life. Piozzi's Anec. p. 103. At the Essex Head, Essex-street. Juvenal, Satires, x. 8: 'Fate wings with every wish the afflictive dart. Vanity of Human Wishes, l. 15. Mr. Allen, the printer. BOSWELL. See ante, iii. 141, 269. His letter to Dr.
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