The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
by Philip Wharton A. T. Thomson
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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.
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- THE
- WITS AND BEAUX OF SOCIETY
- GRACE AND PHILIP WHARTON
- EDITED BY
- JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY, M. P.
- And the original illustrations by
- H. K. BROWNE AND JAMES GODWIN
- TWO VOLS.—VOL. II. 1890
- List of Illustrations
- CONTENTS VOL. II.
- HORACE WALPOLE.
- GEORGE SELWYN.
- RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.
- BEAU BRUMMELL.
- THEODORE EDWARD HOOK.
- SYDNEY SMITH.
- GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON, LORD MELCOMBE.
- HORACE WALPOLE.
- "STRAWBERRY HILL FROM THE THAMES"
- GEORGE SELWYN.
- SELWYN ACKNOWLEDGES "THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE"
- RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.
- "THE FAMOUS LITERARY CLUB."
- "A TREASURE FOR A LADY"—SHERIDAN AND THE LAWYER.
- BEAU BRUMMELL
- "WHO'S YOUR FAT FRIEND?"
- THEODORE EDWARD HOOK.
- THEODORE HOOK'S ENGINEERING FROLIC
- SYDNEY SMITH.
- SYDNEY SMITH'S WITTY ANSWER TO THE OLD PARISH CLERK
- GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON, LORD MELCOMBE.
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