| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of Poet and Saint. s He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of fioi-t and saint. He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who? when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham... | |
| Daniel Lysons - London (England) - 1811 - 512 pages
...was very often vifited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of " fadion and debates, ufed to find at Wickham, books and quiet, a decent " table, and literary converfation. There is at Wickham a walk made by Pitt ; " and what is of far more importance, at Wickham... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 496 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of poet and saint. He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and dehates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There... | |
| John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 788 pages
...from Oxford, by diploma, the degree of LL. D. March SO, 1748. He was very often visited by Liyttelton and Pitt ; who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literaiy conversation. Mr. Upton's " letter... | |
| Elizabeth Robinson Montagu - English letters - 1813 - 354 pages
...evening. I am, &c. Sec. ELIZ. MONTAGU. (J^- Dr. Johnson, in his Life of Gilbert West, says, « he was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 410 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of Poet and Saint. He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...not the only maker of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of poet and saint. He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and dehates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There... | |
| David William Garrow - Croydon (London, England) - 1818 - 444 pages
...piety." In this agreeable retreat, " he was very often visited (continues his Biographer) " by Littleton and Pitt, who when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wick liam to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham... | |
| David William Garrow - Canterbury (England) - 1818 - 452 pages
...piety." In this agreeable retreat, " he was very often visited (continues his Biographer) " by Littleton and Pitt, who when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to iind books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham... | |
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