Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 1, 2025
The house was kept by Christopher Cat, after whom his pies were called Kit-Cats. The club originated in the hospitality of Jacob Tonson, the bookseller, who, once a week, was host at the house in Shire Lane to a gathering of writers. In an occasional poem on the Kit-Cat Club, attributed to Sir Richard Blackmore, Jacob is read backwards into Bocaj, and we are told
During October, 1836, Inspector General George Croghan visited Fort Snelling, and on the evening of the seventh of the month the Thespian Players presented Monsieur Tonson in his honor.
Its principle place of meeting, however, was at the mansion of Tonson at Barn Elms, where a room was specially built for its accommodation. The dimensions of this room were responsible for the application of the term Kit-Cat to portraits of a definite size.
Percy, when telling Tonson that he had completed two volumes of the 'Spectator', said that he had corrected 'innumerable corruptions' which had then crept in, and could have come only by misprint.
I languish for your welfare"; "I stay here in order to get Tonson to discount a bill for me, and shall dine with him to that end"; and so forth. Once only does Steele really afford the recent humourist the suggestion that is apparently always so welcome. It is when he writes that he is invited to supper to Mr. Boyle's, and adds: "Dear Prue, do not send after me, for I shall be ridiculous."
Carrying his formidable manuscript with him, and how formidable the manuscript which melts down into three solid octavo volumes is, only writers and publishers know, he knocked at the gate of that terrible fortress from which Lintot and Curll and Tonson looked down on the authors of an older generation.
That Pope should have thought this conjecture of Tonson worth remembrance, is a proof but indeed, so far as I have found, the only proof that he retained some malignity from their ancient rivalry.
Addison and Tonson laid great plans, few of which materialized, and some were carried out by other people notably the compilation of an English Dictionary. In Sixteen Hundred Ninety-nine we find Addison, in possession of a pension of three hundred pounds a year, crossing the Channel into France with the object "to travel and qualify himself to serve His Majesty."
Carrying his formidable manuscript with him, and how formidable the manuscript which melts down into three solid octavo volumes is, only writers and publishers know, he knocked at the gate of that terrible fortress from which Lintot and Curll and Tonson looked down on the authors of an older generation.
His name was now of so much authority that Tonson thought himself entitled, by annexing it, to demand a subscription of six guineas for Shakespeare's plays in six quarto volumes. Nor did his expectation much deceive him, for, of seven hundred and fifty which he printed, he dispersed a great number at the price proposed.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking