Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930, Adcock, Frederick · London, J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 90
mporal and spiritual peers, physicians,lawyers, actors, and musicians composed the motleygroup, and played their parts without dissonance ordiscord. He was so imperturbable and easy-natured that Dr.Johnson said if he ever quarrelled with him he wouldfind it most difficult to know how to abuse him ;… … Sir 3£Mmm Wesrs House GOLDSMITH, REYNOLDS, ETC. 63 he was not loud and aggressive in his objections tothem. When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. It was on Reynoldss suggestion that he and Johnsonfounded, in 1763, what later became…
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