Wits and
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共 58 题- New Edition with a Preface
- TWO VOLS.--VOL. I.
- DEDICATION.
- DEAR MR. AUGUSTIN DALY,
- LONDON, _July, 1890._
- CONTENTS.
- GEORGE VILLIERS, SECOND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
- COUNT DE GRAMMONT, ST. EVREMOND, AND LORD ROCHESTER.
- BEAU FIELDING.
- OF CERTAIN CLUBS AND CLUB-WITS UNDER ANNE.
- WILLIAM CONGREVE.
- BEAU NASH.
- PHILIP, DUKE OF WHARTON.
- LORD HERVEY.
- PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.
- THE ABBE SCARRON.
- FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT AND THE DUC DE SAINT-SIMON.
- SUBJECTS OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- VOLUME I.
- PAGE
- WHARTON'S ROGUISH PRESENT (_Frontispiece_)
- VILLIERS IN DISGUISE--THE MEETING WITH HIS SISTER 14
- DE GRAMMONT'S MEETING WITH LA BELLE HAMILTON 74
- BEAU FIELDING AND THE SHAM WIDOW 85
- A SCENE BEFORE KENSINGTON PALACE--GEORGE II. AND QUEEN CAROLINE 172
- POPE AT HIS VILLA--DISTINGUISHED VISITORS 194
- A ROYAL ROBBER 217
- DR. JOHNSON AT LORD CHESTERFIELD'S 226
- SCARRON AND THE WITS--FIRST APPEARANCE OF LA BELLE INDIENNE 247
- PREFACE.
- JUSTIN HUNTLY M'CARTHY.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- GRACE and PHILIP WHARTON
- THE WITS AND BEAUX OF SOCIETY.
- GEORGE VILLIERS, SECOND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
- The following verses are to his 'Mistress':--
- FOOTNOTES:
- COUNT DE GRAMMONT, ST. EVREMOND, AND LORD ROCHESTER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- BEAU FIELDING.
- OF CERTAIN CLUBS AND CLUB-WITS UNDER ANNE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- WILLIAM CONGREVE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- BEAU NASH.
- FOOTNOTES:
- PHILIP, DUKE OF WHARTON.
- And then those memorable lines--
- LORD HERVEY.
- ACT I.
- Again he wrote to her a characteristic letter:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ABBÉ SCARRON.
- FOOTNOTES:
- FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT AND THE DUC DE SAINT-SIMON.