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The Environs of London
… constant and thorough-paced royalist, a good companion, a witty droll, and a waggish poet 167." "The Lady Elizabeth …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… husbandman. James Smyth, late of Frome, clothier. Tho. Witty, late of Frome Selwood, clothier. Thomas Clarke, late …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… John Wray, Chris. Wray, Geo. Walters and wife, Edwd. Witty, Geo. Wilson and wife, Mary Waterman, Robt. Waterman, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… of Lincoln's Inn 1686; died of smallpox in 1689, " a witty young man and a tolerable poet." See Ath. iv. 265; & …
Old and New London
… watch over the door, and heard in its time millions of witty things and scores of fond recollections of Shakespeare … of the "Devil," who died in 1627, seems to have been a witty butt of a man, much such another as honest Jack Falstaff; a merry boon companion, not only witty himself, but the occasion of wit in others, quick at …
Old and New London
… Rolls in the reign of George I., was an ancestor of that witty Jekyll, the friend and adviser of George IV. Sir Joseph … himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty, and the most sensible of men. He always made the best …
Old and New London
… broke up the business. In August, 1823, Theodore Hook, the witty and the heartless, was brought to a sponging-house kept …
Old and New London
… of the chairman and "chant" one of his lively and really witty songs. The platform belongs to "Evans's" and a later …
Old and New London
… was chosen editor, because he knew society, was quick, witty, satirical, and thoroughly unscrupulous. For his … as much talked about as Junius in earlier times. By many witty James Smith was suspected, but his fun had not …