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Old and New London
… and its Tributaries," places on record the following witty epigram: "This church was rebuilt by John Gower, the …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… 100 persons of the same description; and besides several witty and harmless pranks, he played other quite outrageous …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… in pursuance of his instructions, or prompted by his witty and facetious humourof which he has a considerable …
Old and New London
… its upholstery, and its pawnbrokers. Congreve, always witty, makes Lady Wishfort, in his Way of the World, hope …
Old and New London
… as he tells us, he first saw, and sat next to, "pretty, witty" Nell Gwynne, when King Charles and Lady Castlemaine … "If humour, wit, and honesty could save The humorous, witty, honest from the grave, His grave had not so soon its …
Old and New London
… character of St. George's Fields: "Thy 'civic villas,' witty Smith, Have fled, as well as woodland copse; Where erst … riotous, clamouring for the release of their dissolute and witty favourite from the King's Bench. During the riot which …
Old and New London
… and Eye!" "St. James's, in Westminster," observes the witty author of the "Town Spy," "has a very large share of … of his Own Time," tells an amusing story about the "witty monarch" and his saturnine brother James, which we may …
Old and New London
… chaplains. A good story is told about this dinner and the witty Dr.South, who obtained a reprieve for it when there was … or a Drawing-room has always formed the head-quarters of witty retort and polite badinage. Of all Court wits perhaps …
Old and New London
… lies buried the once famous sculptor, Roubilliac; also the witty, but somewhat licentious, dramatist, Farquhar, author …
Old and New London
… 18423. Many amusing anecdotes are related concerning this witty divine:"I wish, Reverend Father," once said Curran to …