Oliver Cromwell Daniel Defoe Sir Richard Steele Charles Churchill Samuel Foo
Oliver Cromwell Daniel Defoe Sir Richard Steele Charles Churchill Samuel Foo
Forster, John, 1812-1876
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" " The feminine of idiot. Madam. " — Much bored by a pompous physician at Bath, who confided to him as a great secret that he had a mind to publish his own poems, but had so many irons in the fire he reaUy did not well know what to do. " Take my advice. Doctor, " says Foote, " and put your poems where your irons are. " — Not less distressed on another occasion by a mercantile man of his acquaintance, who had also not only written a poem, but exacted a promise that he would listen to it, and wh...o mercilessly stopped to tax him with inattention even before advancing beyond the first pompous Hne, " Hear me, Phcehus, and ye Muses nine I pray, pray be " attentive, Mr. Foote. " " I am, " said Foote ; " nine " and one are ten : go on ! " The only men of his day, putting aside Johnson's later fame, who had the least pretension to compare with him in social repute, were Quin for mt and Garrick for powers of conversation. But Quin was restricted to particular walks of humour ; and his jokes, though among the most masterly in the language, had undoubtedly a certain strong, morose, surly vein, like the characters he was so great in.
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